Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Etiology
Clinical
- Fever (see Fever, [[Fever]]
- Painful Oral, Facial, and Nasal Skin Lesions or Vesicles (see Vesicular-Bullous Skin Lesions, [[Vesicular-Bullous Skin Lesions]])
- Palmar/Plantar Skin Lesions or Vesicles: rarely pruritic in childhood cases, may be pruritic in adult cases
- Buttock Skin Lesions or Vesicles: may be present in young childhood cases
- Headache
- Irritability: common in children
- Fatigue/Malaise
- Vomiting/Diarrhea
- Anorexia
- Flaccid Paralysis/Meningitis/Encephalitis/Acute Lung Injury/Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage: rare
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