Hand Food and Mouth Disease

 Monday night during Family home evening Makai started complaining that his feet were hot.  He wouldn't leave his shoes on and kept taking them off even though we were at the church playing games.  Then I noticed a bump just above his lip.  When we got home things went from bad to worse.  Makai was crying and I noticed his hands and feet were breaking out into a rash.  He slept only a couple hours that night and I spent the night trying to sooth his itch in every way I could think of.

The following morning, more spots and rash.  I am not one to take my kids to the doctor, but at work someone told me strep was going around and as he said his neck hurt I thought it was worth getting him tested for strep.  NEGATIVE.  The doctor told us her was fine and he could go back to school.  So, I sent him back to school.  The following day Trey work up with spots on his face and hands, then Kory, then Kyle!  I had to figure out what was going on.  Monty finally figured it out.  Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease.

It took the other boys getting it to figure it out.  When Kyle said he wasn't hungry I knew something was up.  Then we read the symptoms to H.F.and M. and loss of appetite was on there.

Anyway, I found the stages interesting.  Makai's toes ended up loosing layers of skin.  I didn't get a picture of the last stage which was him loosing all his fingernails both on his hands and feet.  The worse day was actually the first day when he was itchy.  The rest of the 'disease' he handled pretty easily and the other boys were just tired and not hungry with spots.

Just interesting!