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Viral infection spreading among kids
Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Oct 14, 2013, 09.20 PM IST
When four-year-old Aadhyanth returned from his playschool a few days ago with rashes on his feet and mouth, his parents were worried. The following day, he came down with a high fever and a throat pain. Almost immediately, two cousins showed similar symptoms, and their paediatrician confirmed that the illness was hand-foot-mouth disease. And it was just not the kids -- the entire family of eight fell ill in the following days.
City paediatricians are seeing an increased number of children suffering from hand-foot-mouth disease, an illness caused by a virus called enterovirus that results in painful sores in/on the mouth, hands and feet followed by viral fever and throat infection. The illness usually lasts for a week and is contagious. On the flip side, a child develops immunity to the infection after one bout of illness...
Viral infection spreading among kids
Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Oct 14, 2013, 09.20 PM IST
When four-year-old Aadhyanth returned from his playschool a few days ago with rashes on his feet and mouth, his parents were worried. The following day, he came down with a high fever and a throat pain. Almost immediately, two cousins showed similar symptoms, and their paediatrician confirmed that the illness was hand-foot-mouth disease. And it was just not the kids -- the entire family of eight fell ill in the following days.
City paediatricians are seeing an increased number of children suffering from hand-foot-mouth disease, an illness caused by a virus called enterovirus that results in painful sores in/on the mouth, hands and feet followed by viral fever and throat infection. The illness usually lasts for a week and is contagious. On the flip side, a child develops immunity to the infection after one bout of illness...