Question
What are the common symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease?
Answer
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common childhood illness that occurs during spring, and parents should remain vigilant. Initial symptoms may be mild, with children possibly drooling and refusing to eat due to the pain from ulcers inside their mouths. Rashes on the oral mucosa initially appear as granular or vesicular, surrounded by red halos, mainly on the tongue and cheeks, often on the sides of the lips.Flat or raised maculopapular rashes or herpes may appear on the distal parts of the hands and feet, these rashes are not itchy, turn from red to dark within about five days, and then fade. The blisters are round or oval raised areas containing cloudy fluid, the size of soybeans, usually painless and non-itchy, leaving no scars after healing.