All About HFMD

[mintcc]

ChiefKiasu:

mincy:

My boy got twice before when he is 17 month old. Very active leh. like almost not sick like that.


But I guess it depends on the virus. Better to be careful...

Well, hopefully he is now immune to it...

If he got it twice, how could there be immunity?

I was reading the paper the other day and they quote some doc to say, most of the time they will have immunity once they got it. erm I think my boy's case last time is super suah :?:

[super_dad]

I think there are different strains. So, now he got immunity to both. How’s that for kiasu??

[mintcc]

hi Chief kiasu, you question got me curious too so I googled and find this on Dr Greene


\"...by several different viruses, including coxsackieviruses A5, A9, A10, A16, B1, B3, enterovirus 71, foot-and-mouth disease virus, and herpes simplex. The vast majority of cases, however, are caused by coxsackievirus A16.

A child with a healthy immune system will form antibodies to whichever virus caused the infection. If your son is re-exposed to the same virus, he will probably not be re-infected. He is still susceptible, in varying degrees, to the other viruses. Since 1963, most children have had one case of hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome, caused by coxsackievirus A16.

There is one other snag. While most children clear their bodies of the virus within one week, coxsackievirus A16 occasionally succeeds in hiding inside children's own cells, like herpes. By eluding the cellular immune system, coxsackievirus A16 can cause chronic or recurring skin lesions. Healthy humoral immunity is able to keep these recurrences from being as severe as the initial episode.

Will your son catch hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome again? Probably not, but there are no guarantees. Who knows? In the next century, enterovirus 71 might become the major cause of hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome. Even so, the human immune system has a remarkable history of adapting to the ever-changing microscopic world around us.\"

So may be My son did not really got it twice but it was the reccurrence from the first epidsode. I remembered when he got the symptons, it was like 2 weeks apart.

However, I did hear that it is still possible to get it more than once if it is different strain. e.g. You get coxsackieviruses A16 the first time, you will still get enterovirus 71

[ChiefKiasu]

Wow... this is real science... thanks to Google everyone can become a doctor now Good job! Now... where did I leave that stethoscope?

[ChiefKiasu]

BTW… does anyone know if HFMD is air-borne? I have always assumed that it is contact-based, ie. you catch it only if you touch someone who has it.

[scenic98]

my girl had HFMD when she was 2 during the last outbreak. she most likely got it from her childcare. my niece and nephew all got it from the same centre. but my girl’s situation was the worst, as she could not drink or it, she had to be admiited to KKH.

Had to be isolated, so confined to a class A ward. little one was very brave then allowing a big size nurse insert a drip needle into her arm. that was the worst week my wife and i had. little girl soon got restless being confined to the room, at most we could do was to carry her to the door or window. at night, wife and i slept on the arm chair (we are not exactly small size hor).
what we learn from the hospital is to feed her ice cream to let the coldness numb the sores in her throat, after that, she started eating.
it’s a painful experience which i hope no parent will need to go through.

[phantom]

I am feeding my kid with those cracked lingzhi spores powder and rosehip syrup to improve his immunity. Hope that will help in preventing him from getting HFMD.

[mintcc]

hianz, I guess we will never know how kids react to certain virus… HMFD or Flu for the matter.


Me now feeding my kid Blackberry extract and multi vitamins every day…
Hows the Ling zi spores suppose to work?

[phantom]

mincy:

hianz, I guess we will never know how kids react to certain virus... HMFD or Flu for the matter.


Me now feeding my kid Blackberry extract and multi vitamins every day..
Hows the Ling zi spores suppose to work?

Read an http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1160105 recently that taking vitamin pills may lead to early death. So no vitamin pill for me.

The http://www.chinesenaturecure.com/web/index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=19&Itemid=3 is 75 times more effective than the lingzhi itself. So I suppose that's why those old martial arts film always talk about 1000 years old Lingzhi, I suppose, now just by taking a 13 year old Linzhi, it is same as taking those legendary 1000 years old Lingzhi :lol:

Anyway, it is suppose to be a natural herb to improve the immune system without side effects.

Once I got a very bad sore through, and I took 3 of those pills and amazingly, the next day, sore throat was gone. Never experience that before. Same with fever. I calculated, cheaper to take those pills than to see a doctor :lol:

[ChiefKiasu]

527 cases of HFMD in 1 day!!! Goodness… what’s happening?? I think all childcare services should just shutdown for 2 weeks voluntarily to break the cycle.