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Saturday, October 3, 2009

hand, foot mouth disease (HFMD)


the whole family is QUARANTINED!!!!


Jihan and i got HFMD....and we are totally clueless where we got it from....i haven't seen such aptients before i was on raya leave and there was not a single case in Jihan's school...we probably contracted the disease during hari raya, but we wonder where was the source...


anyway, what happened was both of us had low grade fever and sorethroat with ILI symptoms but they were not that severe to disturb our daily activities and the duration was very transient....so we thought it was a normal upper respiratory tract infection...the next day Jihan said she had mouth pain, probably mouth ulcer due to too much drinking and eating all the kuih raya and stuffs...no other suspicious symptoms to suggest anything highly contagious or sinister...


on Wednesday, i realized i got a few tender nodules and blisters on the back of my hand.....i didn't pay much attention to it...i was on leave because i wanted to study for the exam...then i went back, Jihan couldn't eat because of painful sorethroat and mouth...we inspected her mouth and there were multiple ulcers and herpengina at the back of her mouth, palate and tongue...then we discovered multiple red spots on her feet, then hands....gosh!!! it really looked like HFMD...and i looked at my hands and oh my...i couldn't be getting it too...?? it rarely affects adult and sometimes it comes unnoticed...


the next day, i showed the lesions to my specialist...with the given history and suggestive physical symptoms, i was confirmed to have HFMD...and there were multiple ulcers in my mouth too but i didn't feel it that painful and i was able to eat normally....Jihan too was seen by my specialist and both of our cases were notified to the health authority....


HFMD is a notifiable disease that needs to be notified within 24 hours of diagnosis....it is highly contagious and treatment is just supportive and symptomatic...hygiene is very important and that's how the disease can be curbed....


we are recovering now...Jihan is able to tolerate orally better...her school is taking every measures to disinfect all their cutleries and picking up cases with similar symptoms to be checked by doctors....


i found a very good website regarding the disease, worthwhile to read about it...



6 comments:

Salwa said...

Dr Ezzura n Jihan..
syafakumallah wa afakumallah
get well soon..

btw myson pernah kena HFMD when he was 4mos
alhamdulillah,he recovered after 5days
thanks to my breastmik :)

KittyCat said...

Oh poor thing! My boy had it too and had bad mouth ulcers but luckily, no blisters on the hands and feet.

His kindy had 2 cases a few months ago and the principal suspected the germs were still on the toy cars the tots love to drive. Can the germs survive that long???

Anyway, one of the teachers told me that when she brought her HFMD-infected son to the clinic, she didn't keep him from playing with the playground there...

I guess that's how HFMD spreads so easily because the kids touch everywhere and things are not cleaned regularly!

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