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Thankfully the Barbie collection is one that is not available to DCKs. She's chosen that and her tiny Disney Princess collection not to share and I don't blame her. It stays in her room. I'm going to let her play with them until she's fever free and then I'll bleach them all for a couple of days. Google says it won't melt it but might make it crunchy. Her birthday is in 2 weeks so maybe some new Barbies are in order.
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poor thing I feel so bad for her... I have a sunburn on my lips from our camping trip last weekend and I can only imagine how horrible she must feel. I can't put anything but a nice cold cucumber up to them............
I hope that things get better soon.....
thats funny about the barbies... I always wanted to look like a barbie when I was little and I asked my mom why don't I look like a barbie....she took the head off and said see daughter in her head....I looked in the little hole and I said yes there is nothing in there...She said that is why you won't look like a barbie..... I was too little to understand what she meant at the time....but now find it super funny..
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here are the fact sheets I have for this.
I hope she feels better soon!
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My oldest daughter picked it up at daycare days before her 4th birthday. It was the last week of October 2008 and I was due to have my son the first week of December 2008. At that time I was the lab nurse at a family practice clinic and even though I wasnt working out on the floor bringing patients back, I had heard other nurses talk about a few cases that had come in. On a Sunday my daughter told me she had a sore throat and when I looked in her mouth, I about fell off of the couch. She had soooo many ulcers in her mouth. I tried to push fluids and got her in first thing on Monday a.m. The Dr told me to keep doing what I was doing with the fluids but by around 3 p.m. I called back for an order to have her go in for IV fluids if we needed it (didnt want to go through the ER). She took 1 oz from the time of her appt until that night. We took her in and she ended up being in the hospital for 5 days. She had the most severe case that many of those nurses had ever seen. She didnt eat for almost 2 weeks because of the pain in her mouth and she did not drink until Friday of that week. The criteria for her to come home was for her to drink 8 oz and she did it with much encouragement (her IV had also infiltrated so they were going to have to put a new one in if she didnt drink). We got home and almost had to take her back because she hurt so bad she still wouldnt drink. It was awful. I spent that entire week (34 weeks pregnant) in a hospital bed with her. Come to find out, one of her good friends from daycare had it the week before but "had such a mild case" that she was back at daycare within 2 days. I was lucky because my younger daughter who was 1 at the time ended up with what I think was a real mild case of it- she had a few blisters on her fingers and a low grade fever but never stopped taking fluids. After going through that whole ordeal (and a nice hospital bill), I always try to take into consideration that in illnesses such as Hand, Foot and Mouth it doesnt affect all children the same and just because one case may be mild doesnt mean that the person they pass it on to will have a mild case, as was the case with my daughter. When my son turned 1, he came down with a case of it and I closed my daycare for a week while he recuperated. No hospital for him, but he did have high fevers and was lethargic at times. There was no way I was going to expose the other kids at my daycare to that. As much as it ****ed for them to have to find alternative care, they were all grateful after they found out what we went through with dd and how serious it can be in some children. Good luck, I hope no one else gets ill with it, it's not a fun illness.Comment
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My daughter did not "mouth" things either when she contracted it. I do also know that it can be passed not only from saliva and coughing/sneezing but from contamination from BM and improper handwashing after using the bathroom. If a child has a BM and doesnt wash their hands good and then touches toys or door knobs or whatever and another child touches those toys, they've just contracted the germs. I dont know how my daughter got it but I did quite a bit of research on it at that time and that was one of the things that I was not aware of- that it could be passed through BM- gross, I know.Comment
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Thanks Broncomom.
I don't have dcks scheduled until Thurs due to their retail work schedule. For one family it's their first week. However this child has already been exposed because they were here for an interview just at the beginning of the fever before I knew what it was. DD is still running 103+ if I let her motrin lapse even 20 mins. She'll be back at the doctor tomorrow. And DS is showing signs of coughing, hoarseness, and feels warm but the thermometer is reading normal. UGH!Comment
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Thanks for these sheets! Where did you get them? Our school always hands out ones similar to the first one you posted and I asked licensing for a resource to them so I could also send them out (for things like strep that we have to report to parents) but they don't have them.here are the fact sheets I have for this.
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I PM'ed you the link for all the illnesses/diseases in daycare that we need to be aware of.
The site has fact sheets for daycare providers and parents. I ONLY use the info on these sheets to make my decisions. I print out which ever one I need for the parents to have also. That way we are both on the same page.
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