Antibiotics aren't effective in treating coxsackievirus or any other viral infection. Doctors usually recommend rest, fluids, and over-the-counter pain relievers or fever reducers when appropriate. Most cases of coxsackievirus infection are uncomplicated and resolve within a week or so. If your granddaughter develops more-serious signs or symptoms, such as severe headaches, joint pain or a high fever, she should be evaluated by a doctor.
Coxsackievirus infection can lead to meningitis, and in rare cases, a child infected with coxsackievirus can develop a severe illness that may require hospitalization. Jay L. Hoecker, M. Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission.
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Fever and flu-like symptoms Children often get a fever and other flu-like symptoms three to six days after they catch the virus. Symptoms may include: Fever Eating or drinking less Sore throat Feeling unwell Other symptoms may appear over the next few days.
Mouth sores One or two days after the fever starts, your child may get painful mouth sores herpangina. Signs that swallowing may be painful for your child: Not eating or drinking Drooling more than usual Only wanting to drink cold fluids. Skin rash Your child may get a skin rash on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
Keep blisters or scabs clean and avoid touching them. Treat symptoms at home Often the infection is mild, and symptoms can be treated at home. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is most commonly caused by a coxsackievirus. There's no specific treatment for hand-foot-and-mouth disease. Frequent hand-washing and avoiding close contact with people who are infected with hand-foot-and-mouth disease may help reduce your child's risk of infection.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease often causes a rash of painful, red, blister-like lesions on the palms of the hands. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease often causes a rash of painful, red, blister-like lesions on the soles of the feet. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease may cause all of the following signs and symptoms or just some of them.
They include:. The usual period from initial infection to the onset of signs and symptoms incubation period is three to six days. A fever is often the first sign of hand-foot-and-mouth disease, followed by a sore throat and sometimes a poor appetite and feeling unwell. One or two days after the fever begins, painful sores may develop in the front of the mouth or throat. A rash on the hands and feet and possibly on the buttocks can follow within one or two days. Sores that develop in the back of the mouth and throat may suggest that your child is infected with a related viral illness called herpangina.
Other features of herpangina include a sudden high fever and in some instances, seizure. Sores that develop on the hands, feet or other parts of the body are very rare. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is usually a minor illness causing only a few days of fever and relatively mild signs and symptoms. Contact your doctor if mouth sores or a sore throat keep your child from drinking fluids.
And contact your doctor if after a few days, your child's signs and symptoms worsen. The most common cause of hand-foot-and-mouth disease is infection with the coxsackievirus A The coxsackievirus belongs to a group of viruses called nonpolio enteroviruses.
Other types of enteroviruses sometimes cause hand-foot-and-mouth disease. Oral ingestion is the main source of coxsackievirus infection and hand-foot-and-mouth disease. The illness spreads by person-to-person contact with an infected person's:. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is most common in children in child care settings because of frequent diaper changes and toilet training, and because little children often put their hands in their mouths.
Although your child is most contagious with hand-foot-and-mouth disease during the first week of the illness, the virus can remain in his or her body for weeks after the signs and symptoms are gone.
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