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Recent throat infection often children, was diagnosed with herpes angina, eat how to do things. After receiving the advice, the reporter called to interview with Children’s Hospital found that these children really a lot recently about outpatients 40%.

Herpes angina is an upper respiratory tract infection; viral infection is typically 4-July is high season, the most vulnerable children under 3 years old in the move. Herpes simplex virus and enterovirus is pathogenic culprit. Hot the summer, the indoor air circulation, increasing the virus reproduction, easy onset.

Herpes angina with the early symptoms of common cold are not very different, parents can easily be mistaken for common cold. After onset, the child will be initially high fever, poor appetite. Throat irritation occurs slowly, there vesicles, ulceration healed. Children will show irritability, crying, drooling, mild diarrhea, do not want to eat, or eat hot food when the crying and so on. The entire process lasted 5-10 days, an average of 7 days.

Herpes angina main use of some antiviral drugs, such as choice, and detoxification of medicine. Strong symptoms, may wish to use ribavirin aerosol or spray inhalation. Some children sick, in pain and poor feeding. But the more unwilling mouth, viral propagation but faster. So to encourage children to mouth, drink plenty of water. Diet should be light, a few times, to milk, fresh vegetable soup, fresh fruit juices and other liquid, porridge, noodles and other semi-liquid foods, should not eat hot food. Can gargle with salt water daily to help oral hygiene.

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