3 Year Old Has Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease - Worried Now About My 8 Month Old.

i can only tell you my experience - my son was 3 and his daycare had an ourtbreak - they ALL had it. literally. he was the last one to come down with it, and he had sores ONLY in his mouth - and dozens of them :( they went all the way down his throat, and he did not eat solid food for over a week. stopped eating and drinking completely, so we ended up taking him to the ER. they basically numbed his throat/mouth with the dental stuff (forget the name, you know what i'm talking about) and then made sure he got something down, and sent us home. (probably gave us an antibiotic or something, can't remember) what worked best for us was the sore throat spray that numbs, and pediasure shakes. he lived off those for almost a week. it was a nightmare. i hope it's not that bad for you - the rest of the daycare kids didn't have it as bad as he did. just another wonderful parenting experience. hang in there. i would hate to go through that with an 8 month old.

My daughter had it when she was 2 1/2 not sure where she got is since she wasn't in daycare or school at the time. She had it on her feet and hands and was always touching our infant (3 months at the time), before we knew what she had. The infant never got it. We did keep her away from her sister after we found out she had it.

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My son got it in day care when he was about a year old. It didn't affect him at all.
As it was I'd never had it when I was growing up so when he got it, I got it too. It's one of those things that you get once and never get it again.
Except for a few blisters on our hands and feet (and they didn't itch at all) you could hardly tell we were sick at all. And I didn't take off from work over it. The chicken pox I had as a kid were WAY worse.
We had very mild cases and I guess some people get it worse.
If you are worried, take your 3 yr old to the doctor and let him tell you what you should do. Your 8 month old will probably get it but then he'll be over with it and you won't have to worry about it again.

My son had it pretty bad- high fever, spots on feet and hands, generally feeling bad for about a week. His sister seemed to get a few spots on her hands, but no fever, and not much more than slight crankiness (beyond the spots) so I guess it depends on the child. He was 5 or 6 when he got it, my daughter was 3. Apparently the biggest way it's spread is through bodily fluids, so just keep the baby and everything the baby touches clean. My son's spots lasted a very long time- turning white and peeling off after weeks, but he was only out of school for a week (it happened to be over a week long break for us).

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My son had it pretty bad- high fever, spots on feet and hands, generally feeling bad for about a week. His sister seemed to get a few spots on her hands, but no fever, and not much more than slight crankiness (beyond the spots) so I guess it depends on the child. He was 5 or 6 when he got it, my daughter was 3. Apparently the biggest way it's spread is through bodily fluids, so just keep the baby and everything the baby touches clean. My son's spots lasted a very long time- turning white and peeling off after weeks, but he was only out of school for a week (it happened to be over a week long break for us).

my daughter had this a few years ago. don't know where she got it either. anyway, we also have a younger child and he never came down with it. i didn't isolate my daughter. the ER said it wasn't really hand, foot and mouth disease but something like it. she was running over 104 temp. and had blisters in the back of her throat. school rules is that they have to be completely sympton free for 24 hrs. which means he can't have a fever. i would check to see since he is taking meds if he can come back after the fever. you know like pink eye (24 hours of being on meds they can come back). i would keep my child home from school if they had the blisters because it would be painful and also if they are bursting someone else might catch it. but if you work that might not be possible for you. just call the school and see what they say.