All About HFMD
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insider wrote [quote]When my two elder kids got their chicken pox in cc about 10 years old, I actually ‘hoorayed’ coz that that will rid myself from worries and them from this virus for the rest of their life. [/quote]
That's totally not true. A person can be infected with chicken pox more than once in their life. As long as your immunity is low & you are in contact with a person with chicken pox, chances are you will get it again. -
insider,
Thanks for clarifying. I just did not want other parents to be mistaken that my boy is premature or is born with health problems. There is nothing wrong with him, but he simply has weaker immunity compared to other children. My point is that for children like him, going to CC is not going to help to improve their immunity, it will only make them worst.
You are very lucky to have kids with strong immunity. I believe that they are born with it, going to CC has nothing to do with it. -
My child had HFMD on his 2nd birthday. I believed he got it either at the clinic or IMM when he had two rides there. His fever will subside after pananold but will be back again to high fever after medicine effect was over. He vomited few times, no appetite.
Luckily he recovered within three days, as we noticed the ulcers at first stage. We brought him to a GP who gave him lots of medicine to cool him down. Very effective, he recovered very fast, and did not pass the virus to my 4mth old child.
Unfortunately, my hubby got infected and spread all over his head to feet. Recovered fully only after one month. During this period, I restricted him from touching the baby, doing housechores, and he needs to wear socks. Prevention is also better right?
I guess kids can really recover very much faster than adults. :roll: -
zachziv:
...Unfortunately, my hubby got infected and spread all over his head to feet. Recovered fully only after one month. During this period, I restricted him from touching the baby, doing housechores, and he needs to wear socks. Prevention is also better right? ...
Sounds like we are so much less forgiving to daddies getting HFMD. Kids get ice-cream while adults get socks! :lol: -
My younger son has just been infected with HFMD. He has ulcers in his mouth. When he moves his lips, he will cry. He can only drink milk and take porridge. His hands and feet have some less noticeable red dots. Hope he will recover soon.
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kiasulang:
My younger son has just been infected with HFMD. He has ulcers in his mouth. When he moves his lips, he will cry. He can only drink milk and take porridge. His hands and feet have some less noticeable red dots. Hope he will recover soon.
Oh dear hope that your son gets well soon. Make sure that he is taking in enough fluids. Children really suffer when having HFMD
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He has to stay at home for 10 days, then follow by doctor’s consultation before he is allowed to go back to CC. He has no fever, but lost appetite because of his mouth ulcers. Doctor had prescribed an antiseptic pain relieving oral gel which helps him to take his milk. He refuses to eat other food and has lost weight. He sleeps most of the time after taking his medicine. We feel very helpless. Doctor said there is no direct medicines for HFMD. How fast he can recover depends on his immunity.
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kiasulang:
He has to stay at home for 10 days, then follow by doctor's consultation before he is allowed to go back to CC. He has no fever, but lost appetite because of his mouth ulcers. Doctor had prescribed an antiseptic pain relieving oral gel which helps him to take his milk. He refuses to eat other food and has lost weight. He sleeps most of the time after taking his medicine. We feel very helpless. Doctor said there is no direct medicines for HFMD. How fast he can recover depends on his immunity.
It is true that there is no direct medicine. Even when my boy was hospitalized due to HFMD, all the doctor prescribed was panadol. But he was put on the drip which really helped him to recover, because he could not eat or drink anything. My hubby and I had to take turns to stay with him all the time at the hospital.
It is good that your son can still drink milk. Hope that this period will be over ASAP for you. -
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insider wrote [quote]When my two elder kids got their chicken pox in cc about 10 years old, I actually ‘hoorayed’ coz that that will rid myself from worries and them from this virus for the rest of their life.
That's totally not true. A person can be infected with chicken pox more than once in their life. As long as your immunity is low & you are in contact with a person with chicken pox, chances are you will get it again.[/quote]Actually, you don't get chicken pox again once you have gotten it. That's because the virus is always in you - it's just that your body has built the necessary suppressors to keep it from activating. So technically speaking, you cannot get reinfected again since you are already infected.
However, when your body immunity is low, the chicken pox virus will re-emerge, not as chicken pox, but as shingles, which is more painful and dangerous. I know because I still have the scars from the shingles I got a month before my A-levels. *ouch* -
CKS wrote [quote]Actually, you don't get chicken pox again once you have gotten it. That's because the virus is always in you - it's just that your body has built the necessary suppressors to keep it from activating. So technically speaking, you cannot get reinfected again since you are already infected.
However, when your body immunity is low, the chicken pox virus will re-emerge, not as chicken pox, but as shingles, which is more painful and dangerous. I know because I still have the scars from the shingles I got a month before my A-levels. [/quote]That's what I've been told too. However, the information that I have gotten from KK hospital doctor is that a person can get infected with chicken pox again. DS was hospitalized as doctor thought he has chicken pox in his lung. When he was hospitalized, dd & me have just recovered (we still have the scabs at that time) & dh had his 1st sign of dot on his body. That was when the doctor told us that as long as our immunity is low, chances are, we can get chicken pox again.
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