I'm SOOOO Mad!!! (vent)

[Laurel]

Hand foot and mouth......viral infection that presents with fever and sores on hands feet, mouth.

Thanks!

Laurel

[Laurel]

That's what I wondered too!

. Now we know.

Laurel

[Patches]

I exclude until all sores are healed. Usually 2 days. And yes, any indications are gone now. The irritating part is that I do my best to ensure their child remains healthy yet they couldn't tell me on Friday that others may have been exposed to HFM?! That's the part that burns my buttons!

I get that. It sounds frustrating. You just know, if it were the other way around and another child had it and the parents didn't tell you and their child caught it, they would be mad. <---Hope that makes sense. I couldn't quite word that right

[Meyou]

They still should have said something. My daughter possibly has scarlet fever (labs aren't back yet) but I made sure to tell our daycare provider anyway and babygirl is staying home. You can give common courtesy even if you don't have an official diagnosis.

Scarlet fever is pretty easy to tell. The rash looks just like a sunburn but feels just like sandpaper when you rub their skin. My dd had it twice two years ago. It's a form of the strep virus that manifests as a rash instead of a horrible sore throat. I FREAKED the first time I saw the rash on dd...she was covered and it came on within a few hours. She went down for a nap on the sofa after being sent home from school with a fever and woke up covered head to toe in a bright red rash!

[daycaremum]

Hand, foot and mouth. While annoying, it is not really a dangerous disease. I don't even exclude for it.

I don't exclude for it either as it is contagious before symproms present. As long as they are not uncomfortable or unwell they may attend. I would want to know of course so that I could inform the other families to keep an eye out for symptoms on their own children. I would never think to exclude till all sores were healed. My daughter had it when she was 1 and her bumps didn't go away for over a week.

[Bugsworthy]

Ok...so my ds had what started out as spots near his mouth, arms and legs. Initially we thought it was an excema outbreak until a rash showed up on his feet and later his hands. So, I self diagnosed him with hfm. He didn't have a fever but was very irritable. I kept him home until it cleared up.

The very next day my other ds and dd came down with a fever, headache and sore throat with swollen glands. No rash...They were home three days.

I thought this was odd. We are in the same house but seemingly two different sicknesses.