Hand, foot and mouth

[Anonymous]

Ack. Toddler sent home with fever today and some red spots. Teacher said looks like HFM. What to expect? Will we really be out of daycare ten days?? (Google) any info and tips.

[Anonymous]

Well my kids had very minor symptoms during the illness but after all of their nails fell off. That was unexpected. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Our DD had a very mild case of HFM over the summer. Daycare required her to be out until she was fever-free for 24 hours without the use of Tylenol or Motrin and any blisters were no longer leaking. She came down with it on a Thursday, was out Friday, and back on Monday. She only had a few spots on her wrists and knees, and they scabbed over quickly.

DH and I both caught it from her, and we were incredibly ill. DH was out of work for a week, I missed 3 days, and we both lost toenails. Oddly enough, the toenails fell off several weeks later. For both DH and I, in addition to the sores on our hands and feet, we both felt like we'd been hit by a bus...very reminiscent of the flu for me!

[Anonymous]

Do you live on the hill? It's going around everywhere.

Both of my kids have had it.

One just got over it. She is two. Had a slight (101) fever on a Saturday and we thought maybe she was coming down with a cold. Monday afternoon started getting bumps on her hands, bottom and feet. By Wednesday, they were widespread. Aside from them being "itchy" she was her normal self, minus some sleep issues at night. By Friday she was better. She still has a few blisters on her hands and we are over 10 days out but they are almost all gone (she had a relatively significant amount).

My older one had it - we barely noticed.

My husband had it and we thought he was dying (I kid you not). He was incredibly ill - had terrible, terrible blisters and we took him to the urgent care several times because he felt like his feet were on fire. He got over it in 2-3 days but we still joke 3 years later that was the illness from parenting hell.

[Anonymous]

We just had it before Halloween and I started on thread on it a few weeks ago. For us, the fever came on Friday night. Peak fussiness on Saturday, and we returned to daycare on Thursday (Halloween). I'd say it was a moderate case.

8 of the 10 kids in my son's class got it at the same time and most returned to daycare before we did. My son got most of the bumps right on his face, so I was a little hesitant to send him in since he looked so diseased.

[Anonymous]

My kids have gotten it multiple times. We never had any visible sores on the face (or hands or feet), but they had blisters in their throat and one of my kids were deeply miserable for 3-4 days. Only out of school for 4-5 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you live on the hill? It's going around everywhere.

Both of my kids have had it.

One just got over it. She is two. Had a slight (101) fever on a Saturday and we thought maybe she was coming down with a cold. Monday afternoon started getting bumps on her hands, bottom and feet. By Wednesday, they were widespread. Aside from them being "itchy" she was her normal self, minus some sleep issues at night. By Friday she was better. She still has a few blisters on her hands and we are over 10 days out but they are almost all gone (she had a relatively significant amount).

My older one had it - we barely noticed.

My husband had it and we thought he was dying (I kid you not). He was incredibly ill - had terrible, terrible blisters and we took him to the urgent care several times because he felt like his feet were on fire. He got over it in 2-3 days but we still joke 3 years later that was the illness from parenting hell.

I'm the PP from 10:05, and this is no joke. I had been told that it was a childhood thing, and the likelihood of us catching it from DD was slim and, if we did, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Contrary to that info, just about everyone I know who's had it as an adult has been very sick from it. Urgent care doctor told DH that his was the worst case he'd ever seen. I don't remember this even being a "thing" as a child growing up in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you live on the hill? It's going around everywhere.

Both of my kids have had it.

One just got over it. She is two. Had a slight (101) fever on a Saturday and we thought maybe she was coming down with a cold. Monday afternoon started getting bumps on her hands, bottom and feet. By Wednesday, they were widespread. Aside from them being "itchy" she was her normal self, minus some sleep issues at night. By Friday she was better. She still has a few blisters on her hands and we are over 10 days out but they are almost all gone (she had a relatively significant amount).

My older one had it - we barely noticed.

My husband had it and we thought he was dying (I kid you not). He was incredibly ill - had terrible, terrible blisters and we took him to the urgent care several times because he felt like his feet were on fire. He got over it in 2-3 days but we still joke 3 years later that was the illness from parenting hell.

I'm the PP from 10:05, and this is no joke. I had been told that it was a childhood thing, and the likelihood of us catching it from DD was slim and, if we did, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Contrary to that info, just about everyone I know who's had it as an adult has been very sick from it. Urgent care doctor told DH that his was the worst case he'd ever seen. I don't remember this even being a "thing" as a child growing up in the 80s.

Apparently its prevalence has to do w/ kids not getting chickenpox now or so they theorize. I agree w/ you that it seems chickenpoxesque in the sense that adults don't get it as often, but when they do it's horrible. Our DD and her nannyshare mate got it at the same time when they were 1.5ish and the other dad got it and had bleeding blisters in his throat; had to be hospitalized for hydration w/ an IV because he couldn't eat or drink anything. Kids were sick for like 3 days and my kid didn't get mouth/throat blisters so only real symptoms were from the fever and disappeared when motrin-ed up.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartner was out for a week. Seems wrong to me to send them back with sores so we waited until they were healed. I caught it and was the sickest I’ve been in my life. High fever, aches, and it hurt so badly to swallow for days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you live on the hill? It's going around everywhere.

Both of my kids have had it.

One just got over it. She is two. Had a slight (101) fever on a Saturday and we thought maybe she was coming down with a cold. Monday afternoon started getting bumps on her hands, bottom and feet. By Wednesday, they were widespread. Aside from them being "itchy" she was her normal self, minus some sleep issues at night. By Friday she was better. She still has a few blisters on her hands and we are over 10 days out but they are almost all gone (she had a relatively significant amount).

My older one had it - we barely noticed.

My husband had it and we thought he was dying (I kid you not). He was incredibly ill - had terrible, terrible blisters and we took him to the urgent care several times because he felt like his feet were on fire. He got over it in 2-3 days but we still joke 3 years later that was the illness from parenting hell.

I'm the PP from 10:05, and this is no joke. I had been told that it was a childhood thing, and the likelihood of us catching it from DD was slim and, if we did, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Contrary to that info, just about everyone I know who's had it as an adult has been very sick from it. Urgent care doctor told DH that his was the worst case he'd ever seen. I don't remember this even being a "thing" as a child growing up in the 80s.

The assistant in DD's Pre-K classroom caught it from the kids. The kids were generally fine in about a week, but she was out for 3 weeks.

[Anonymous]

So I should wait until all the of the rash is gone? Oye. She is covered.

[Anonymous]

My kid had a very bad case. Her face looked like it was covered with strawberry jelly. She had blisters all over the tops of her hands. She was miserable. We bathed her in chamomile and lavender to sooth itching. We bathed her several times a day, including the middle of the night. She was out of school 2 weeks and her face had dried scabs by then. It was something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I should wait until all the of the rash is gone? Oye. She is covered.

Ask your daycare what their policy is for HFM. Most of the ones I’m familiar with don’t require the spots to be completely healed, just scanned over and no fever.

[Anonymous]

Scanned=scabbed

[Anonymous]

My kids had it at the same time. The toddler never had a fever they I noticed, and only two blisters on her hands and maybe 5 on her feet. However my 5 year old had a high fever for a day, and awful blisters all over her face, hands, feet, buttocks and ears. It looked beyond awful, and she missed over a week of school because it took so long for the blisters to heal and begin to fade. So weird how it can present so differently in siblings who obviously had the same strain.