straffan23:

To share, we recently had a brush with HFMD, too. Not so straight forward sometimes. First of all, we were rejected at school because there was 2 little blister on my DS foot. When we went to see the GP, she says \"suspected HFMD\" - 3 days MC. But there was no fever, no ulcers, and no further blisters. So I updated the school and they sent out a notice as \"suspect case\".


3 days later went to see the GP - still no fever, no ulcers, and no further blisters but the ones he had hasn't subsided. So the GP said, mild case of HFMD. So we updated the school. But apparently the school could not update as a confirmed HFMD case until they see our MC / GP's memo and there were some problems obtaining that due to the GP opening hours. For all these infectious deseases, the childcare centre needs to inform MOH & MCYS - so they are more kiasu and won't anyhow just report.

Finally maybe Day 4 there was suddenly a confirmed case, so the memo came out for that case, and maybe Day 5 or 6 then the memo came out for ours. But they do inform parents when the last date the infected child was in school. Sometimes, there are also cases of which the parents did not immediately inform the childcare centre...

Yours Day 5 to 6. Mine 16 days. I've talked to the principal already.
All she said was \"sorry, we will do better next time\" a bit disappointed.

I was so scared after reading about HFMD on the KKH website, the worst of it is that it can cause inflammation of the brain and heart if it's a serious case. My daughter has ASD and it wasn't something that I was going to gamble with

SBKS:

Carisella:

[quote=\"Funz\"]I guess it depends on the SOP of the centre with regards to HFMD. Some centres do not inform parents unless they have 2 or more cases. Some will inform only the parents of that class for initial cases and monitor to contain the spread. To understand how your child's centre manage HFMD cases and possible outbreak, do talk to them.

In the morning when I brought my girl back to the Child Care.
As stated on the notice. It stated 1 child only.

And plus, it's not like they have separate classrooms or different classes.
They are all in one big area with a separate music room only.

They just like have shelves to segregate the areas and these shelves is not those big ones. They are just like 1/3 height for them to put the child's bags.

Sorry, I got confused by ur post.

The notice state 1 child. But the said child in the notice is not referring to your child but another child? :scratchhead:

So did your child got it from the school?

It happened to my DD2 as posted earlier about the herpangina.

The school did not inform. after PD confirmed with us, we immediately inform school. Still they did not sent out notice.

then like 2 or 3 days later, they finally send the email out to all parents. I was like ???. and the email notice stated 3 cases. So my DD2 got it from school. When PD asked us, we also said dun have in school cos we did not know about it.

It's not as if we did not inform the school early enough for them to react. Our DD2 is not the 1st case as it turns out from the notice. Ours should be the 2nd case.

What the doctors did in my case is that they will note the school name and they are required to report to MOH about it. child's name and school name.

If the school are late in reporting, maybe you can check with MOH and MSF on the SOP for all child cares.[/quote]Hi SBKS

The child stated in the notice is not mine.
My girl got it on the 7th of May 2013
The child as stated in the notice got it on the 29th of April 2013

Your child's school sent out notice 2 to 3 days later.
My girl's was after 16 days then a notice came out.

In this case, I believe my daughter contracted it from school.

I'm just wondering why different child care have different practices. Such is considered a contagious disease, thus shouldn't all SOP be standardized across the board?

Oh and also. When my Mom spoke to the principal on the 6th of May 13 about my girl having 2 days MC due to her flu. The principal still did not tell us that there was a case of HFMD in the CC at all.

Funz:

I guess it depends on the SOP of the centre with regards to HFMD. Some centres do not inform parents unless they have 2 or more cases. Some will inform only the parents of that class for initial cases and monitor to contain the spread. To understand how your child's centre manage HFMD cases and possible outbreak, do talk to them.

In the morning when I brought my girl back to the Child Care.
As stated on the notice. It stated 1 child only.

And plus, it's not like they have separate classrooms or different classes.
They are all in one big area with a separate music room only.

They just like have shelves to segregate the areas and these shelves is not those big ones. They are just like 1/3 height for them to put the child's bags.

Hi Mommies,


I just want to enquire. During an outbreak of HFMD, what's the responsibilities of the school? Are they suppose to inform parents or paste a notice that there was such a case in advance? I am kind of pissed of right now.

There was a suspected case of HFMD in my 20m daughter's CC on the 29th of April 2013 and on that day itself, she came home with an open blister on her upper thigh. Hubs and me didn't think much of it cos we all know she has itchy hands, might have been a mosquito bite and she scratched it. (We didn't know there was a suspected HFMD case in school till this morning when i saw the notice on the front door of the school)

On the 6th of May 2013, my daughter woke up, called me (yes, she called my mobile using my mom's mobile) and started crying. I panicked, and used my office phone to call home and my mom found her hiding in our room. My mom said she pointed to a red spot on the back of her hand and kept crying. My Mom brought her to the doctor's but was not diagnose with HFMD, cos it was just 1 spot. As she had on-going flu, the doctor gave her an MC which my Mom brought to the CC to hand over to the principal.
There was no notice of an outbreak at all.

On the 7th of May 2013, my mom spotted a few small red spots randomly on her arms and legs, she brought her to the doctors again, but he didn't suspect anything, cos it was random spots. But he noted there was 2 ulcers in her throat. And also the doctor asked us if her CC had any outbreak of HFMD, my mom said no. (Cos we weren't informed at all!)
That night i went home, my girl was fine and playing with me. But later on around 8+, I noted that the spots has spread and there was 1 spot on the sole of her left foot but many at her private part area and butt hole. That morning when the doctor and my mom checked, there was nothing at all. And when I was playing with my girl earlier and there was nothing on her hands too, but now there was this awful blister on her little finger. We sent her to KKH and the doctor confirmed it was HFMD.

On the 8th of May, i called the school to inform them that my daughter had HFMD, they asked me to bring the KKH letter to them as they need to escalate the matter to their management. There was still no notice on their door. I spoke with the teacher awhile and I EVEN told her, most probably she didn't get it from school. Might have got it from a playground somewhere. I was feeling quite embarrassed as HFMD to me was like a hygiene issue and we as parents might have overlooked on the hygiene factor. But the teacher was more embarrassed than I was. Of cos i didn't suspect anything since there was no notice.

On the 13th of May (yesterday) My mom brought my daughter to get clearance to return to Child Care. She brought the letter to the principal and still there was no notice at all.

Today, when i brought my girl to Child Care, There it was! The notice of outbreak was there! On the front door!

As stated on the notice, suspected case of HFMD 29th April. Confirmed case 29th April! Child returned to school on the 7th!

I feel that the school had been very irresponsible by not informing us parents that there was such an outbreak. Aren't the school suppose to inform us? It really looks like the school teachers do not communicate with each other at all too.

Sorry for the long post. I need to let the steam out