Hand Foot Mouth

[Anonymous]

Curious if this is going around in your kids' daycares/ preschools in DC / MD?

[Anonymous]

Knock on wood...not in our NoVA daycare yet, but our pediatrician said they're seeing lots of cases right now.
I caught HFM from our older DD 3 years ago. She had a very mild case but, short of a bad bout of the flu in college, that's the sickest 72 hours I've had in my life. I was surprised at just how awful I felt getting it as an adult. Really hoping to avoid it with younger DD, although it seems almost inevitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Knock on wood...not in our NoVA daycare yet, but our pediatrician said they're seeing lots of cases right now.
I caught HFM from our older DD 3 years ago. She had a very mild case but, short of a bad bout of the flu in college, that's the sickest 72 hours I've had in my life. I was surprised at just how awful I felt getting it as an adult. Really hoping to avoid it with younger DD, although it seems almost inevitable.

SAME, when I got it from my infant son, who hasn't seemed all that bothered, I couldn't believe how awful I felt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Knock on wood...not in our NoVA daycare yet, but our pediatrician said they're seeing lots of cases right now.
I caught HFM from our older DD 3 years ago. She had a very mild case but, short of a bad bout of the flu in college, that's the sickest 72 hours I've had in my life. I was surprised at just how awful I felt getting it as an adult. Really hoping to avoid it with younger DD, although it seems almost inevitable.

SAME, when I got it from my infant son, who hasn't seemed all that bothered, I couldn't believe how awful I felt.

PP here. Our pediatrician said it is similar to chicken pox in that it is far worse if you get it as an adult. Funny, because I had never heard that. I thought it was just something that little kids get that generally doesn’t impact adults at all. How very wrong I was!!!

[Anonymous]

No, but half the class is currently out with RSV. 🙁

[Anonymous]

Yes. It’s hit ours hard. We are in Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Yup, my daycare had HFM in August. My kid caught it very mildly (one day of fever then rash for a few more days); I was fine, thank goodness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but half the class is currently out with RSV. 🙁

Ugh. We just had RSV run through the young toddler room at our daycare, too. Took out 4 kids and 2 caregivers. My 16mo was one of them, and it was ROUGH. It was a good 10 days or so until she was back to normal.