This past week was awful. All three kids ended up with Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD). Since our twin boys are 11 months right now, and our daughter is 2 and a half, they are in the most common ages to catch this disease, which is five and under.
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| This is the beginning of Drake's HFM. |
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The hardest part of HFMD is that there isn't really any cure, it just has to run it's course, which generally takes 7-10 days total. For our kids it was about 6 days before the fever was gone and the spots stopped coming up. Once they stopped coming up, the spots also started scabbing over. The boys, which are 11 months, were much easier than Anna. Anna, who is 2.5, was scratching and itching spots, so we were very worried about it continuing to spread. HFMD spreads through contact with body liquids, but thankfully she scratched it once they had already began to scabbed. She did make one bleed, but it was already drying up, thankfully!
Once it starts healing, we used Neosporin to help with the healing process. It made a difference within 24 hours! No the spots weren't gone, but we could definitely see a drastic improvement on the spots where it was applied versus the spots when we hadn't used it the first day of healing. The other thing we noticed is how long our 11 month old boys slept while getting over it. They each took 4 hour naps on back to back days while also sleeping through the night! We learned a lot, and thankfully, neither Sheila or I contracted it!
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