Hand, foot and mouth disease is spread by direct contact with the discharge of throat secretions or rupture from vesicles on the hands and feet of the patient.

The disease can also be spread by contact with toys, objects that are secreted or drained from water balloons on the patient's hand. In addition, an adult's hand is also an intermediary that transmits a virus from a sick child to a healthy child if he does not wash his hands after caring or contacting a sick child. In general, this is a contagious infectious disease and so far there is no preventive vaccine and no specific treatment.

Therefore, in order to prevent hand-foot-mouth disease, we need to pay attention to fully and regularly implementing personal hygiene and hygiene measures - disinfecting toys, supplies and children's living areas.

Weekly disinfection should be done periodically on a certain day of the week to gradually establish a new habit. Disinfection includes soaking toys and cleaning floors, shelves where children work with antiseptic solutions. Some commonly used disinfectants include: 25% chloramin B powder, bleaching water (javel water).

Antiseptic solutions that can be used at home are chloramin B and javel water. For chloramin B powder, mix 1 teaspoon (long spoonful, usually used to drink iced coffee) with 1 liter of water to disinfect each week in case the patient has no patients. If there are patients in the home, follow the instructions of the medical staff, usually mix 5 teaspoons above in 1 liter of water. However, the use of chloramin B powder may not be convenient for us when the smell is quite unpleasant, must be carefully preserved (must be tightly closed, contained in a dark bottle or bag because if chloramine is exposed to light Light will be ineffective), in addition to remember the formula ...

To overcome the nuisance in using chloramine powder, households can buy various types of bleaching clothes (javel water) which are widely sold on the market to be used for common household disinfection purposes. Family. These products are marketed for the purpose of bleaching white clothes, but are essentially sodium hypochloride solutions (a chemical with a disinfectant feature recommended by the medical), so these products are completely possible. Used as a household disinfectant. Countries around the world also use similar bleaching solutions to disinfect and disinfect their homes. Note: only bleached bleaching water is used for disinfection, do not use colored clothes bleaching water because this product does not have sodium hypochloride component. One advantage of javel compared to chloramine powder is that javel water products have been added with flavoring to remove unpleasant odors of chlorine, making disinfection more pleasant.

How to mix javel water is quite simple. With the percentage instructed to bleach clothes printed on the product label can be used for daily cleaning. If used for the purpose of weekly disinfection, we will mix with the rate doubled. For example, to bleach clothes, the manufacturer instructs to phase 2 caps for 1 liter of water, for the purpose of disinfection we mix 4 caps of bottles for 1 liter of water.

Toys should be washed before soaking in the demolition solution. After soaking in disinfectant solution for 30 minutes, remove and rinse with clean water, then dry and then let baby play. In cleaning homes and surfaces, note the following:

- Pre-wipe with water and soap to remove dust and organic substances before wiping with disinfectant solution.

- Use 2 buckets, 1 bucket containing disinfectant solution and 1 bucket of water to discharge dirt. Soak the wipes in the disinfectant solution to wipe, when the towel is dry or see a dirty towel, rinse with water when rinsing it back into the disinfectant solution, do so until it is done. Finally wipe off with clean water.

In order to ensure the concentration of disinfectants, it is recommended to buy products with well-known brands, produced by large factories ... In the use of disinfectants, gloves should be worn during mixing and cleaning. And soak in order to avoid skin irritation and avoid water disinfection. In case of contact with the disinfectant, wash the eyes several times with clean water and see a specialist if necessary. In storage, separate areas of disinfectants and sanitizing equipment should be kept out of the reach of children and not to be confused with food and drinks.

In summary, the antiseptic cleaning of children's surfaces, floors, toys is very important. This is one of the measures to help children prevent hand-foot-mouth disease. This can be done to protect the health of our children.