Study the current scenario of hand foot mouth disease an Indian prospective

Authors

  • Ravi Sahota Private Practitioners, Sahota Super-specialty hospital, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India
  • Navpreet Kaur Private Practitioners, Sahota Super-specialty hospital, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India
  • Gurpal Singh Private Practitioners, Sahota Super-specialty hospital, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India
  • Nisha Upadhyay Department of Pediatrics, GMERS Medical College and Civil Hospital, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20202616

Keywords:

Complication, Coxsackievirus infection, Fever, Foot and mouth disease, Hand, Rash

Abstract

Background: The hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute communicable disease, mostly affecting children under 5 years of age and caused by human enterovirus 71 (EV-A71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16). The usual incubation period is 3 to 7 days. Early symptoms are likely to be fever often followed by a sore throat followed by loss of appetite and general malaise. Aim and objectives was to study the trend of hand foot and mouth disease in a private hospital in Uttarakhand over 5 successive years.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried among 297 cases of HFMD newborn screened at pediatrics department of Sahota Super-specialty hospital, Kashipur, Uttarakhand during year 2015 to 2019 after ethical clearance of institutional ethical committee. Diagnosis is coded with ICD-10. SPSS version 20 was used to calculate frequencies and percentiles.

Results: Almost 29 cases of HMFD were picked in 2015, 32 cases in 2016, 43 cases in 2017, 81 cases in 2018, 112 in 2019. Fever observed in 86% cases. Neurological complications were observed in 9 (3%) cases, pneumonitis in 14 (4.7%) cases, cardiomyopathy observed in 3 (<1%) case. One death was reported.

Conclusions: It is vital to screen patients with HFMD for these abnormal clinical presentations, allowing timely initiation of appropriate interventions to reduce the mortality. Increased awareness about vaccination in a developing nation like India and vaccination program at the grass root levels have eradicated certain lethal diseases.

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2020-06-24

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