The Department of Preventive Medicine recommends preventing hand, foot and mouth disease.

On April 27, the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) said: Currently, there have been a number of cases of children with hand, foot and mouth disease. In response to this situation, the Department of Preventive Medicine recommends that both adults and children wash their hands frequently with soap under running water many times a day, especially before preparing food, before eating or feeding children, before holding children, after going to the toilet, after changing diapers and cleaning children.

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Food for children must ensure adequate nutrition; cooked food and water; eating and drinking utensils must be washed thoroughly before use (preferably soaked in boiling water); use clean water in daily activities; do not feed children; do not let children eat with their hands, suck their fingers, or suck on toys; do not let children share napkins, handkerchiefs, eating and drinking utensils such as cups, bowls, plates, spoons, and toys that have not been sterilized.

Households, kindergartens, and home childcare facilities need to regularly clean surfaces and objects that come into daily contact such as toys, school supplies, doorknobs, stair railings, table tops, chairs, and floors with soap or common detergents. People use hygienic toilets; children's feces and waste must be collected, treated, and dumped into hygienic toilets.

In particular, children must be regularly monitored for their health to promptly detect, isolate, and treat cases of illness, avoiding the spread of illness to other children. Nurseries, kindergartens, child care groups, and households with children under 6 years old must proactively monitor their children's health to promptly detect and immediately take them to medical facilities for timely treatment. Sick children must be isolated for at least 10 days from the onset of illness, and children showing symptoms of illness must not be allowed to attend class or play with other children.

The Department of Preventive Medicine said: Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral disease, commonly found in infants and young children. Typical signs of the disease are fever, sore throat, mouth pain; mouth ulcers with red ulcers or blisters on the oral mucosa, gums, tongue; rash in the form of blisters on the palms, soles, knees, and buttocks. The disease can cause dangerous complications such as encephalitis-meningitis, myocarditis, acute pulmonary edema and lead to death if not detected early and treated promptly.

In addition, to prevent measles from spreading in the community, the Ministry of Health recommends: During the holidays of April 30 and May 1, 2014, people with symptoms of respiratory tract infection or suspected measles such as fever, cough, difficulty breathing, rash should not travel or go to crowded places. During the trip, if you have symptoms of suspected measles such as fever, cough, rash, go immediately to the nearest medical facility for timely consultation, examination, treatment and limit contact with others to avoid spreading.

Families should proactively take their children from 9 months to 2 years old who have not been vaccinated or have not received 2 doses of measles vaccine or children from 9 months to 10 years old living in high-risk areas to commune and ward health stations to get vaccinated against measles according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health. Children who have not been vaccinated against measles should not be taken to crowded places such as playgrounds and entertainment areas to avoid measles infection; improve children's nutrition, regularly clean their teeth, nose, throat, eyes and body; wash hands with soap when caring for children; keep the house and toilets clean./.

According to VNA