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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctors are sending kids back after a couple days when they should be out for 7 to 10 days. [/quote] Are you joking? 7-10 days? It’s treated exactly the same as any other cough/ cold/ flu like illness. Fever free for 24 hours and improving symptoms. You can shed coxsackie virus for a month. Surely you aren’t advocating a kid who had a sore throat and fever for a day, and a mild rash on his hands that fully resolved in 5 days, sit out of school for the following month. HFMD thankfully doesn’t tend to cause severe sequelae the way other viruses with more strict return to school policies do (such as chicken pox , back in the day, since it could be associated with poor outcomes occasionally). That’s also why no one is going to develop a vaccine for it. It sucks to get but it’s largely harmless. [/quote]
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