Hi! :wave: I'm just wondering what are the symptoms of hand foot mouth diesese?

Although I dont believe my nephew has it, but there has been 5 cases of it at his daycare/school, since July 7th i think.

I just wanna know what to look out for. thanks.

:bouncing: ciao

btw, congrats in getting married!!

I've found out the symptoms, the ministry of health, in our area, sent Info about the symptoms, and more to his school, to send home to each parent, so now we have the sheet.

This has been a bad year for hand foot and mouth. 3 out of 4 of my kids got it. They say over the age of 5 usually does not get it but my 13 year old is the one that brought it into the house in the first place. The baby got it the worst.


This is how it went for us.....
On Thursady my 13 year old came home and said that his friend was sick and couldn't play.
On Sunday we had our church picnic and my growing boy said he was not hungry ( that should have tipped me off there) That day he went to bed at 4pm and didn't wake up until 11 the next morning. He had a high temperature and said his throat hurt.

Thursday he came to me still feeling kind of crummy asking me what this blister like things in his mouth were and that he had them for a day or so before that. He then showed me 2 spots on his hand and one on his foot. I looked it up in my handy dandy book and guessed it to be hand foot and mouth.

I then called the doctor to see if there was anything they could do and the nurse told me he couldn't have it because he was too old......so we trecked 1/2 hour away paid the money to see him and had him tell me that yep it was hand foot and mouth. He also said the others would get it too because it was highly catchy.

No sooner did we get home the 4 year old and the 12 month old got the high fever and there we went again.

It seems like it too 4 days from contact to fever. Then the mouth/throat sores. And then he hand and foot sores.

I forgot to mention that all of the children at church then got it along with the children on my 4 year old's t-ball team and all of the neighborhood kids.

Also does anyone know if this is true?....My doc said that once you get hand foot and mouth you don't get it again. Like chicken pox

in my book it says yes you can get it more than once.

Hi,

I used to be a day care teacher. The children in my class were one year olds. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is common within daycare centers. Some of the symptoms I noticed in the children were spots, like a rash on their mouths, tongues, and sometimes hands and feet. Sometimes, the rash is in the mouth only, I found that the child is not eating normally. I have heard that it is highly contagious.

Hope that helps you.

Annie

My kids had it while in preschool, too. They had the spots on the bottom of their feet and the sores in their mouths, but nothing on their hands. I think the most important thing to know about it is how to help the kids to eat with it, AND that it gets worse just before it blows over! My kids had trouble eating with the mouth sores, and could only have milk, sherbet pops, popsicles and yogurt and luke warm chicken noodle soup, etc. Towards the end of the illness, they went off EVERYTHING. This is when I had to use Ibuprophen for their pain, and if they are old enough, they can have that numbing mouth/throat spray that is used for sore throats. I would use it about 5 min. before feeding them. It only works for about 20 min., and it's hard for them to eat immediately after, because it makes the food taste strange. I'd give them Ibuprophen, then feed them about 40 min. later, after it had the chance to take effect. Hope this will be of some use. ~ :wave: Tracy