Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease... very common for children who go to nursery. Since E-an goes to a babysitter, I thought a slimmer chance he will get it. I read in the newspaper and my niece, Damia got it when she was in kindy, so I had very basic knowledge. Alhamdullilah we managed to control HFMD from E-an since we sent him to the hospital early... could have been earlier though, but all rooms were fully occupied. With the basic knowledge my husband and I had, we would panic if it was really bad.
It started of with a fever. The dangerous part with this fever was, it does not have anything in between. It is either too hot or too cold. One minute he could not move and another minute he was jumping up and down. Then his mouth was slightly swollen. Saliva increased, at first we thought another tooth coming then my mom who E-an calls Opah suspected ulcer and she managed to find one. That answered why he wanted to eat, but could not and sadly he shrunk. Then his mouth was badly swollen. When we went to the doctor again two days after that, they decided he should be warded. This was when the paediatrician, Dr. Arbaiyah of An-Nur Specialist Hospital, Bangi was in the picture. She found (by force, of course) 5-6 ulsers waiting to burst in E-an's mouth. In less than 10 minutes she suspected HFMD. The next day spots on his body appeared and then CONFIRMED HFMD. To my surprise, there is no medication for this, so I asked HOW? Everyone told me, it will go. Then we as in Han and I, surfed to learn more about HFMD. I spoke to my friends who have experienced it (TQ Emi Marina and Siti Raidah) and I got the same answer, it will go. As I am writing, we are still waiting for the spots on the body to go :-)
The best part was, we could eat ice-cream... hehehe...and the nurse reminded me of another option that is yogurt. E-an has always liked yogurt, but he has never eaten ice-cream this much before... yum yum yum...
Everyone was asking where he got it from. I know it is not from the babysitter's house since the other children are A...OK, well maybe just normal fever. I thought because he has been very friendly that he liked to lay down on the floor or ground whenever he felt like regardless we were at a shopping complex, hypermarket etc etc etc... I know that HFMD is air borne.
jeng... jeng... jeng... Later I learned from Rizal, my good friend, Safura's husband... we sent our children to the same babysitter... he told me that opposite the babysitter's house, her grandchild had HFMD, but surprisingly they would happily go for their evening brisk walking. Alaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaakkkk (E-an's favourite expression)... with that I rest my case... uhuks...
It started of with a fever. The dangerous part with this fever was, it does not have anything in between. It is either too hot or too cold. One minute he could not move and another minute he was jumping up and down. Then his mouth was slightly swollen. Saliva increased, at first we thought another tooth coming then my mom who E-an calls Opah suspected ulcer and she managed to find one. That answered why he wanted to eat, but could not and sadly he shrunk. Then his mouth was badly swollen. When we went to the doctor again two days after that, they decided he should be warded. This was when the paediatrician, Dr. Arbaiyah of An-Nur Specialist Hospital, Bangi was in the picture. She found (by force, of course) 5-6 ulsers waiting to burst in E-an's mouth. In less than 10 minutes she suspected HFMD. The next day spots on his body appeared and then CONFIRMED HFMD. To my surprise, there is no medication for this, so I asked HOW? Everyone told me, it will go. Then we as in Han and I, surfed to learn more about HFMD. I spoke to my friends who have experienced it (TQ Emi Marina and Siti Raidah) and I got the same answer, it will go. As I am writing, we are still waiting for the spots on the body to go :-)
The best part was, we could eat ice-cream... hehehe...and the nurse reminded me of another option that is yogurt. E-an has always liked yogurt, but he has never eaten ice-cream this much before... yum yum yum...
Everyone was asking where he got it from. I know it is not from the babysitter's house since the other children are A...OK, well maybe just normal fever. I thought because he has been very friendly that he liked to lay down on the floor or ground whenever he felt like regardless we were at a shopping complex, hypermarket etc etc etc... I know that HFMD is air borne.
jeng... jeng... jeng... Later I learned from Rizal, my good friend, Safura's husband... we sent our children to the same babysitter... he told me that opposite the babysitter's house, her grandchild had HFMD, but surprisingly they would happily go for their evening brisk walking. Alaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaakkkk (E-an's favourite expression)... with that I rest my case... uhuks...
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