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Podcast: The Healthy Mouth Movement Podcast
Episode: EP 51 : Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
Description: Here are a few things you should know about hand foot and mouth disease and the recommended treatments. The coxsackievirus is the known cause for this common childhood ailment.
While hand, foot and mouth disease is more common in children, adults can become infected too. Sometimes they have no symptoms at all, but they and you can still spread the infection to others.
How does it spread?
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is passed through bodily fluids—which explains why it travels like wildfire in places that young kids hang out like daycares and school. The virus is easily spread to...