All About HFMD

[BlurBee]

Thank you, auntieM.

Yes, he is having eating problem now. With a full mouth of ulcers, he doesn't want to drink water or milk.
Will let him eat some cold stuffs like ice cream or yogart.

[schweppes]

BlurBee:

Thank you, auntieM.

Yes, he is having eating problem now. With a full mouth of ulcers, he doesn't want to drink water or milk.
Will let him eat some cold stuffs like ice cream or yogart.

Hope you son will get well soon, BlurBee.

Maybe u can try to get him to suck on an ice cube. Or make ice lollies by freezing ribena or yakult/vitagen drinks. My kids prefer the ribena ice lollie version when they had HFMD. The most important thing is to hydrate them, especially since the weather is so hot these days. :lol:

[atrecord]

BlurBee:

My DS2 is having HFMD after 1 week of CCC.

Sorry to hear that. It's a bad experience... my DD got it when she was into her third week at CCC years back. While we were warned that CCCs are a breeding ground for germs and kids fall sick easily and frequently when there, we were not prepared for HFMD...

Ice cream is good. Get those milky ones so at least he gets some nutrition. DD then would rather starve than eat. it was only until her stomach really growl then she'll force herself to down half bot of milk... like once or at most twice a day...

Take good care of him.

[BlurBee]

schweppes:

Hope you son will get well soon, BlurBee.


Maybe u can try to get him to suck on an ice cube. Or make ice lollies by freezing ribena or yakult/vitagen drinks. My kids prefer the ribena ice lollie version when they had HFMD. The most important thing is to hydrate them, especially since the weather is so hot these days. :lol:

Thank you schweppes.
Ya hor, didn't think of making the yakult/vitagen ice cubes. Make some ice cubes using the milk formula but he doesn't want.
So far for today he only took 160ml of FM when he woke up.

[BlurBee]

atrecord:

Sorry to hear that. It's a bad experience... my DD got it when she was into her third week at CCC years back. While we were warned that CCCs are a breeding ground for germs and kids fall sick easily and frequently when there, we were not prepared for HFMD...


Ice cream is good. Get those milky ones so at least he gets some nutrition. DD then would rather starve than eat. it was only until her stomach really growl then she'll force herself to down half bot of milk... like once or at most twice a day...

Take good care of him.

Thank you atrecord.
This CCC always have very good record of HFMD past few years & my DD1 never get it. Never know that DS2 will get it. I think the CCC will have a lot of cleaning to do now.

[Blobbi]

BlurBee:

Ya hor, didn't think of making the yakult/vitagen ice cubes. Make some ice cubes using the milk formula but he doesn't want.
So far for today he only took 160ml of FM when he woke up.

Hang in there, BlurBee. Hopefully the fever's not too bad. Don't know if it really works, but I have two water pillows from Guardian for my son to sleep on if he has a fever. We keep interchanging when one heats up.

[BlurBee]

Blobbi:

Hang in there, BlurBee. Hopefully the fever's not too bad. Don't know if it really works, but I have two water pillows from Guardian for my son to sleep on if he has a fever. We keep interchanging when one heats up.

Thank you Blobbi.
Luckily his fever is not too bad. We have some cool packs but he doesn't like it.

[atrecord]

BlurBee:

Thank you Blobbi.

Luckily his fever is not too bad. We have some cool packs but he doesn't like it.

Think most kids will not take well to the cool packs. Mine screamed like they were whacked whenever we had to do that to them.

Then again, I once attended a talk by a pediatrician from KK that cool packs do not really work, and neither will the age-old method of covering the kids with thick clothes and blankets hoping that they will sweat (the latter might even make it really bad...).

A better way to help them lose some body heat when fever really goes beyond 39C is to sponge them using slightly wet cloth (warm water). Be very sure that the room is not cold or windy though, as while sponging helps the hot body to lose heat, if the body is wet and there is wind blowing, the body sensor will detect it to be that it is very cold outside and the body should generate more heat to counter this (exactly the same principle as when even healthy adult will shiver in the cold - to generate heat by movement of muscles) effect. If that happens, the body temp may go up even more...

[BlurBee]

atrecord:

A better way to help them lose some body heat when fever really goes beyond 39C is to sponge them using slightly wet cloth (warm water). Be very sure that the room is not cold or windy though, as while sponging helps the hot body to lose heat, if the body is wet and there is wind blowing, the body sensor will detect it to be that it is very cold outside and the body should generate more heat to counter this (exactly the same principle as when even healthy adult will shiver in the cold - to generate heat by movement of muscles) effect. If that happens, the body temp may go up even more...

Thank you for the info. Always use ice water to sponge them thinking this will bring down the fever. Will use warm water next time.

[auntieM]

My DS had a few encounters of over 40 kind high fever when he was younger. I was told to give shower and leave hair wet to cool the head, then he would be dressed in just briefs/diapers.

It really works in making son more comfy.