How did it start for your LO?
I just realized R had two little red dots on her butt last night and still there today. She has some bumps on her legs too but they look like bug bites to me. She has been scratching them. She hasn't had a fever, sleeping normal (well bad naps the last two days), eating normal.
I am way over thinking right?!?!
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
She's not allowed to have HFM!! I think no fever is a good sign. M gets little random red bumps every once in awhile.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@lawbee11: I know!! I think I am over thinkin cause the bumps started last Wed night after I had her outside with me while my Dad was patching the roof. I got bit too.
pomegranate / 3275 posts
When DD had it, she got a high fever for two days and was very grumpy before the dots showed up.
grapefruit / 4663 posts
We thought DS's was a diaper rash no fever or anything. Took him to the dr and HFM.
pomegranate / 3917 posts
Fever first (we thought fever due to teeth) and less wet diapers.
Then the spots came a few days later. We are on day five of spots tomorrow!
pear / 1849 posts
Both times LO has had it, it's started with a fever and then a diaper rash. But a really bad diaper rash, not just a couple of dots.
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
Can HFM come seemingly out of no where? We haven't had contact with anyone who has had it.
Chloe's been a sleeping poorly and is on day 2 of fever (101) and is so cranky (uncontrollable crying, screaming). Today she said her whole body hurts and then her throat. We took her to the ped & a strep culture was negative and ears are clear.
They checked her for sores and there aren't any visible. The ped said it's either the beginning of HFM or another virus that's going around that causes headaches, sore throats, fever and runny noses.
grapefruit / 4663 posts
@Mrs. Jump Rope: yep DS's did. He's in daycare but no one there had it when he was diagnosed.
cherry / 179 posts
@smurfette I'm super paranoid also!! Have a newborn at home and so nervous DD is coming down with something cause she's been super cranky. Hoping its molars and not HFM!!!
pomelo / 5298 posts
@Mrs. Jump Rope: Yes! Last summer when LO had it no one else at day care had it. It is highly contagious so its possible our LO picked it up at the store, a restaurant or even the park.
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
@jetsa: @MamaG: she woke up today feeling great but still had a fever.. Who knows!
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
A fever first and a few red dots and diaper rash a couple of days later. Our doctor says kids don't always get a fever first.
@Mrs. Jump Rope: Yes, I heard you can catch it anywhere! 
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
My LO had a fever first, and a couple of days after that, a few dots appeared on her feet, followed by a couple on her hands, and one on her tongue. (ETA: I actually think she had a really mild case . . . it wasn't any worse than a regular cold). I was unaware that any other child at daycare had been diagnosed with HFM, but when I called to let daycare know that she was diagnosed, I then found out that a couple of other parents had finally fessed up (my LO was #3 or #4 to get it).
Which brings me slightly OT, BUT, it really burns my butt when other parents don't let daycare know what their child has been diagnosed with!
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
This is how it down with our boys:
Came home from daycare; everyone was fine and happy. We notice a couple of red spots on Finn's bottom, but just thought it was a little sore spot.
About 2 a.m., Finn woke up with major fever.
By that morning he had a few dots on his face and E had also begun running a fever.
By that afternoon, both had high fevers, rash all over their faces, were listless, and wouldn't eat.
I still shudder at the thought of those few days.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@MsLipGloss: I can't believe the parents didn't tell day care. WTF!
pomegranate / 3127 posts
I think DS had HFM this spring... the doc wasn't sure, because he didn't really have the classic symptoms. Just a horrible diaper rash (that didn't itch) and low fever, and then one sore in his mouth a few days later. Hopefully if it's just a couple of spots, they're just bug bites.
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