Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease: Drug Therapy

Therapeutic target

• Relief of symptoms

Therapy recommendations

• No specific therapy is available.
• Symptomatic therapy:
  • Local therapy: lotio-alba shaking mixture; in severe courses: prednicarbate (drug from the group of topically applied glucocorticoids), if necessary.
  • In severe courses: possibly antipyretics (antipyretic drugs: paracetamol), intravenous antipruriginous (antipruritic) therapy with dimetindene (drug from the group of H1 antihistamines).