All About HFMD

[struggling]

Check out this video on YouTube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquWcQgOlyw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Some general useful info from doctor on HFMD

[Zeus]

Enbin:

Nope, it should be the same as normal consultation fee..

Hi!

The fees are the same as normal consultation, however you are required to bring your child back to certify \"fit for school\" before putting him back into child care.

Cheers.

[toddles]

So scary, HFMD back at epidemic levels. Makes people very wary about bringing kids below age 7 to public play areas… even those nice looking indoor playgrounds can be germfests…

[daddy2007]

toddles:

So scary, HFMD back at epidemic levels. Makes people very wary about bringing kids below age 7 to public play areas.... even those nice looking indoor playgrounds can be germfests...

I avoid public playgrounds nowsaday. Precaution is always better

[Ichigokun]

Even older children like those at 12 and 13 and getting HFMD!


In my friend’s class, apparently there are two cases of HFMD already

[toddles]

Can only hope they work out the vaccine soon. We have vaccines for chicken pox which is much less painful… should get vaccines for as many strains of hfmd as possible.


my adult friend caught it when her child did and the number of ulcers in the mouth and throat are like 40! can’t imagine.

[jkids]

hi parents


lets say if the sch finds ulcer/spots in the kid’s mouth and wants us to bring kid to see doc and in the end, its juz a common heatyness and nothing to do wif hfmd according to doc…does your sch still require parents to get the doc’s letter to prove that the kid is not sick in order to return to sch to study?

do u noe whether is it a "compulsary practice" all pre school are doing this? coz the doc’s letter itself oso costs $.

[BlurBee]

Latest updated (MOH website on the weekly report):

Wk1 (1-7 Jan) - 326
Wk2 (8-14 Jan) - 347
Wk3 (15-21 Jan) - 463
Wk4 (22-28 Jan) - 375
Wk5 (29 Jan-4 Feb) - 445
Wk6 (5-11 Feb) - 686
Wk7 (12-18 Feb) - 815
Wk8 (19-25 Feb) -
Wk9 (26 Feb-3 Mar) - 1119
Wk10 (4-10 Mar) - 1142

http://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/statistics/infectiousDiseasesStatistics/weekly_infectiousdiseasesbulletin.html

Please take care. :hugs:

[auntieM]

Thanks for the update BlurBee.. ..

Figures are scary.. Hope the term break can slow them down!

[guillemard]

My gal also got it earlier tis month but has since recovered. So scary le, lots of ulcers in her mouth so she can’t eat, even refused her favorite milk! can only give ice cream.


Nowadays don bring her to outside playground anymore, but she has always like to play there last time, so now whenever we pass by her favourite playground she will look so disappointed…

Just check MOH website the figures are still high, over 1000 cases in a week!