HFMD 2

ok..After my last post on little missy's HFMD, we have had the worst week this week. starting from Monday, she was left at home under the care of maid and her grandpa while we continue to go to work, she appear fine in the morning, she still drink her milk before i left to work.her last feed was 9am.. after that she did not take in anymore food , not even fluid.

when i came back, i was told that she keep complaining pain inside her mouth, crying and refuse any form of food. i was angry. what the hell are the "adult" doing at home ?? cant they try some way to feed her some water or something? they din even call me, just keep carrying her and sooth her.. but never try ways and means to feed her something. well.. what should i expect right ? i smsed LGG, he said try some yogult ot vitagen. so i let missy choose, she shoose yogult. then slowly slowly she finished the whole bottle of yogurt and almost one bottle of her water, which i feed her using cup. *relief*

then, the whole night she is crying on and off, refusing milk/water. obviously, i didn sleep the whole night trying to sooth her.

ok. cant work this way. SOS my dera mum. she is coming over the next day. mum came in, my SAVER ! i went to work as usual. mum manage to get her to drink but by bit using straw , force feed actually, to keep her from dehydration. It's such a pain to see our child suffer, her ulcer inside her mouth started to form and even on the tip of her tongue. the blisters on her fet and buttock and hand started to appear.

Mum gave her some "shi gua suang" and "zhen zhu fen".. force feed. then use all tricks to get her drink. missy is still not feeling well, she keep clinging on mum. so mum decided to stay overnight. we feed her vitagen , then she even finish her whole package of cheese buscuit, we tot at least she eats something, dun care what. we thought, maybe the coolness of the vitage/yogurt sooth her ulcers and numb it awhile, so missy can start drinking. after awhile she refuse any food again.

At night, when she cry, we use straw to feed her water, she complaint but at least she go to sleep after some moisture in her mouth, else her lips are cracking, too dry.

On wednesday. things seem to be much better, mum manage to get missy to eat soem porridge, she drinks more water. and mum went home in the evening. LGG and i attend to her at night. she drinks her milk that night. * RELIEF *

after 3 nights of not enough sleep at night, i really dunno what am i doing at work.. haaa.. when boss talk to me, my head is blank.. dunno what he said. paiseh.

Then, thursday. she is all normal-self. i still can see some ulcer on the side of her tongue, but inside her mouth, the red spots have gone. phew.. her blisters on fet/hands/buttock are drying up.

This is the most scariest viral infection. children are suffering so much and parents too, I really hope this never happen again.

Stupid childcare .. if i have choice, i wont put my child in cc but do i have a choice now ? sigh. my poor missy.

still have ulcer on missy's tongue and the clister on her foot are drying up


normal-self missy, tryng to imitae her pig to make the nose.. some similaries ? muahha. she is born in pig year, of course alike..

HFMD

Missy's mouth's little red dots turned into small ulcer on sat. but no sign of blisters or whatsoever until today evening.. her feet started to have red dots..some looks like blister.. and her tongue has one small ulcer too. she is complaining by pointing inside her mouth and cry.


She still drinking her milk today. but she refuse her rice for dinner, manage to get her to drink few scoops of soup only. Worrying.

Ok, this is the trend with missy. LAst Thurday (12th Nov), she had her fever, which doc diagnose as normal viral infection with some running nose and cough. her fever recovers on Friday afternoon 9her last medicine was 1230noon). no fever since. but, she still has slight cough, her voice a bit coarse for a week.

Friday afternon, after her nap in school teacher noticed little read dots on her mouth (inside uppper jaw) during their routine health check, which through their experience, this was HFMD's symptoms.

So, we brought her back, she appears normal. no complain. we brought her to see doctor on Sat morning. doc said no obvious symptoms to say she has HFMD. ask us to monitor for next 3-4 days.

So, true enough, Sunday (today), her blisters popping out and she starts to complain. we noticed the red mark on her feet on sat night, maybe these blister pop up on cold day ? maid's said dun expose her to wind or cold water.she said her sister had similar thing too last time.

mm.. shall see how it goes, doctor said no medicine for HFMD, just have to let it runs its course. i apply the wintermelon chinese herb for her mouth's ulcer. and apply soem aquous cream on her feet/hand blister.

really helples and heartache to see little missy suffers from all these viruses. Hope her body fight well with them. I let her continue her vit C & daily apple juice.

She has to home rest form 2 weeks. again, we are paying the childcare but stay at home most of the time.

Hope she will recover soon, no fever and all.

HFMD ?

today teacher found some litle tiny red dots inside missy's upper jaw. it's little red dots which they suspect is symptoms for HFMD. so we brough her home and observe her.

Tmw got to bring her to doc to confirm. for chinese med, they just say this is heaty. for western doc, they will just prescribe some antibiotics. nothing much they can do, as it will heal by itself. hopefully missy's red dots wont turn into ugly ulcer.. else she will have problem feeding. tt's what happened to one of her SM's classmate.

So, we have been seeing doctor on weekly basis now. from quarterly to monthly now weekly. faint.busy parents and poor missy.

She is still ok. can eat/drink. appear normal. so shall see tmw how.Today while accompanying me to see gyane, manage to snap her photos in front of some Xmas deco.
she just refuse to look at camera.

HFMD

Missy been out from school for nearly two weeks in September, due to her flu and school with 6 cases of HFMD. so, we parents paid one whole month of school fees, but child have to stay at home half of the time.

OCtober.. today. 12 oct. school announced 5 more cases of new HFMD . most of them from the toddler class, meaning little missy's classmates. so we decided to protect little missy from the spread. got to keep her at home with grandpa and maid again. sigh.

going to childcare is even more dramatic.. almost every two days one new events.. first month (August) missy hates her school then just when she started to love her school and teachers, she starts to get sick.. then just when she gets well, HFMD cases.. i wonder when then we can really enjoy childcare. sigh.

so, finger cross, missy does not catch the virus from her classmates and will be healthy for the rest of the week till we return to cc , after the cases subsided.