What Are the Dangers of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease?

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What Are the Dangers of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease?

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The main symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease include sudden high fever, often above 38 degrees Celsius, accompanied by symptoms such as headache, coughing, and runny nose, with persistent fever. Blisters the size of rice grains appear on the skin, usually on the palms of the hands and feet, buttocks, or knees. The blisters are red and swollen with a small amount of fluid inside. In addition, patients may also experience symptoms such as coughing, runny nose, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and headache. In rare cases, hand, foot, and mouth disease can lead to severe complications such as meningitis, encephalitis, myocarditis, flaccid paralysis, and pulmonary edema. Although it usually does not pose serious danger in most cases, it can affect the soles of the hands and feet, oral mucosa, perianal area, causing papules or blisters.