NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Epidemic pleurodynia is a febrile disorder caused most commonly by a group B coxsackievirus, an enterovirus. Infection causes severe pleuritic chest or abdominal pain. Epidemic pleurodynia may occur at any age but is most common among children.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cardiac involvement, in the form of myocarditis and pericarditis, also may complicate pleurodynia. The major etiologic agents in epidemic pleurodynia are coxsackieviruses B3 and B5. Other viruses associated with epidemic disease include coxsackieviruses B1 and B2 and echoviruses 1 and 6.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most people get the coxsackievirus infection-and hand-foot-and-mouth disease-through the mouth. The illness spreads by person-to-person contact with an infected person’s: Nose secretions or throat discharge. Saliva.