Hand-foot-mouth disease in puerperium

Abstract

Summary

Our case report describes a case of an otherwise mainly childhood disease in an adult young woman with a good socioeconomic background who developed pruritic exanthema on the second day after spontaneous delivery. The aim of the paper is to characterize the disease and to describe the possible risks for mother and child according to the available literature, as well as complications not only in puerperium but also during pregnancy.