https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:24:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2279238 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:09:28 +0000 sarac 2279238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I'm usually totally unconcerned about germs. But HFM is a bitch - I'd cancel and quarantine us all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278855 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:39:16 +0000 regberadaisy 2278855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Reschedule. You are most contagious before your symptoms show up. It's brutal on the kids and even worse on adults. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278851 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:38:00 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2278851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: I would tell them and leave it up to them. But it sounds like you don't have HFM. I got it twice last year from my LO! The blisters from it are tiny - they almost looked like bug bites or warts or something. Not like a blister you'd get from your shoe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278847 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:35:02 +0000 BandDmommy 2278847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: I'm sorry. But HFM sucks, so I get it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278784 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:38:35 +0000 daniellemybelle 2278784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks y'all. I let the moms know and left it up to them and they want to reschedule. Bummer! I just hope we don't get sick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278672 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:00:23 +0000 SweetiePie 2278672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: I think the first thing you said is perfect! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278669 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:54:50 +0000 BandDmommy 2278669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@daniellemybelle: better to be safe and just reschedule.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278663 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:41:04 +0000 mrbee 2278663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just reschedule to be safe! Since HFM is such a tough one for most kids... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278654 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:18:35 +0000 daniellemybelle 2278654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: Yeah, I am pretty sure I am going to say something, but I don't know how to phrase it. Like, "We were exposed but we aren't sick so I think you should be safe but I want it to be your choice." Or, "Let's just reschedule to be safe." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278653 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:17:22 +0000 daniellemybelle 2278653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>But then there's this:</p> <p>"Some people, especially adults, may not develop any symptoms, but they can still spread the virus to others."</p> <p><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/hand-foot-mouth/about/transmission.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/hand-foot-mouth/about/transmission.html</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278652 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:17:04 +0000 SweetiePie 2278652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's a tough one!<br /> Thinking as if I were the other mom in the play date, I think I'd appreciate the same explanation you gave above and let me decide.<br /> I am paranoid so I'd probably say "let's hold off for another time" :-)<br /> I'd be pretty mad if we ended up with HFM and found out later that you knew it was possible and didn't say anything.<br /> If you told me and I decided to see you guys anyway and we got HFM, then I can't be mad and its on me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278651 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:15:26 +0000 daniellemybelle 2278651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My blister is big and round and not painful at all. Not small and red like the pictures I've googled up. So honestly it's probably not HFM, but I am really psyching myself out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-cancel-this-play-date-for-fear-of-being-typhoid-mary#post-2278642 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:47:33 +0000 daniellemybelle 2278642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There has been an outbreak of HFM from a play date we went to last Wednesday. Most of the kids are on day 2 or 3. LO seems totally fine. I feel fine - but I have a blister on my toe that formed a couple days ago. I don't normally get blisters but I never would have thought twice had I not heard about HFM going around. It's in a spot where I could have gotten it from my shoes.</p> <p>We are supposed to host a play date tomorrow and I am just afraid of being Typhoid Marys! I'm not sure if that's how it works - if you aren't sick can someone still catch it from you? I read online that adults can get HFM so mild they don't even know they have it. But I think I am probably psyching myself out. After all there were probably 15 kids and 15 mamas at this thing and 4 have HFM so it's not like we absolutely have to have it. </p> <p>Would you cancel? </p>