Hand foot and mouth disease hfmd is a common infection in children that causes sores called ulcers inside or around their mouth and a rash or blisters on their hands feet legs or buttocks.
Early stage hand foot and mouth disease in adults.
A rash on the hands and feet and possibly on the buttocks can follow within one or two 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 malaise.
Hand foot and mouth disease or hfmd is a contagious illness caused by different viruses.
In the united states it is more common for people to get hfmd during summer and fall.
It catches on like wildfire in crowded living conditions think college dorms.
Hand foot and mouth disease hfmd is one such common childhood disease.
Symptoms of hand foot and mouth disease usually include fever mouth sores and skin rash.
Most children have mild symptoms for 7 to 10 days.
Although hfmd is usually mild and self limited in both children and adults it is possible for the presentation to be much.
So it s possible to get it all year long even in the winter months she adds.
Hand foot and mouth disease spreads really quickly especially in the spring summer and early fall says dr.
However older children and adults can also get hfmd.