Incidencia de la enfermedad boca, mano y pie en pacientes entre 6 meses y 10 años de edad atendidos en la consulta externa del hospital Francisco Icaza Bustamante en el año 2023.

Abstract

Vesicular stomatitis with exanthema, commonly known as hand-foot-and-mouth disease, is a viral infection that mainly affects children and is caused by coxsackievirus A16. The disease presents with prodromal symptoms, such as malaise and fever, followed mainly by oral and cutaneous lesions on the hands and feet, which disappear within 7 to 10 days with various clinical manifestations. A retrospective, observational research was conducted to determine the incidence of mouth, hand and foot disease in patients aged 6 months 10 years in the year 2023. Data were extracted from patients' medical records. The research sample consisted of 200 patients from the outpatient clinic of the Francisco Icaza Bustamante Hospital, where it was concluded that PMBS affects boys more frequently, especially in ages that go to kindergartens or schools and the disease spreads more easily, corresponding to 2 to 5 years, so it is of utmost importance to apply hygiene measures. The disease will be influenced by external factors such as the weather, it will be more frequent in summer and autumn. As for the signs and symptoms, most of the infants presented general malaise accompanied by thermal rise and lesions in the palm of the hands and periorbital area mainly.