Question
What are the preventive measures for hand, foot, and mouth disease in winter?
Answer
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is characterized by fever, oral ulcers, and rash. Initial symptoms include low-grade fever, decreased appetite, and often accompanied by sore throat. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is caused by external pathogens attacking the blood, and it has the characteristics of the rise and fall of pathogenic factors in external diseases, divided into the initial stage of excessive pathogenic factors, the peak stage of excessive pathogenic factors, and the recovery stage of reduced pathogenic factors. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, hand, foot, and mouth disease belongs to the category of warm diseases and is caused by damp-heat epidemic toxins. Traditional Chinese medicine has been quite effective in treating warm diseases. At present, Western medicine has no vaccine or specific treatment drugs, while the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine in antiviral aspects has been confirmed by modern medicine.