Monday, May 14, 2007

Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Hey ladies,

So my 3 1/2 year old was not eating very much and even threw away more than half of a fudgesicle. In my family there is never discarded chocolate. Well I became curious and checked her mouth, thinking that she might have hurt her tongue. I was surprised to find little white dots all over her tongue. So 30 minutes later we are at the urgent care finding out that she had hand-foot-and-mouth disease.

3 comments:

Joni said...

My niece had it once. There's not really a lot you can do and it's hard to watch the little one go through it. Most important is to try to keep them hydrated since they don't want to eat/drink. Keep encouraging it. I'm sorry about it. It's a hard one.

Linz said...

I wish I could help. I feel so bad about this Chantel. I hope you are all coping as best as possible. Your daughter is so sweet--it must be so hard to watch her go through this.

Anonymous said...

I had never heard of it either until December. My niece picked it up. Then it was like wildfire. It spread to all the kids she cam in contact with! SUPER CONTAGIOUS!