Aftosa in the man

The aftosa fever is one slight viral ailment, whose symptoms are pain in the mouth and is present at of small blisters or sores. Both types of virus that cause it are the Coxsackie virus and the Enterovirus.
This disease is not related to the aftosa fever that affects the cattle.
One knows that it attacks the children specially who begin to walk, although can appear to any age if it has not been had or been one has exposed her previously. This happens particularly when it is warm, normally in the summer or at the beginning of the autumn, and produces small ?epidemics? in the day-care centers. He is not stranger who more than half of the students of a school or a day-care center suffers it.
Women pregnant must to avoid to expose to fever aftosa, since this one can cause more serious a viral infection in the boy who has still not been born and, with her, possible defects of birth. Nevertheless the risk is small, since it thinks that most of the women they have been immunized against this disease in the first stages of the childhood.
The symptoms of the aftosa fever begin of three to six days after being exposed to her e, initially, are:

* Low fever (from 37.5 to 39 ºC).
* Loss of appetite.
* Pain in the mouth.

Passed a pair of days, they begin to appear small blisters but of normal aspect. These can vary of size, from 2 to 4 mm These blisters are surrounded by a small area of reddish coloration. Two or three blisters can be had, or but of thirty. They appear generally:

* In the mouth, forming some deep and painful ulceraciones little.
* In the palms of the hands and the plants of the feet, most of the children in prescholastic age and a ten percent of the adults.
* With less frequency, in the rumps, the superior part of the arms and the legs or in the genitals.
* The blisters located in the outer part of the mouth itch nor usually do not hurt.

Treatment
A treatment for the aftosa fever does not exist. Normally he is very slight and it lasts of days to one week. Most of the blisters they disappear without ulcerar itself, to open themselves, to break themselves to form scabs or to leave scars.
The only recommended medicine is the Paracetamol

The children and the adolescents do not have to take aspirins since its use has been associated with a serious although rare cerebral upheaval and hepático call syndrome of Reye.

If he has sores in the mouth, he avoids to eat or to drink citric, salty or sharp foods

Source: Paginamedica.com

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