Did it start with high fever and a TON of drooling? I don't see a rash or sores yet ...
Also, he has been flat out refusing to sleep, even after I've brought his fever down with meds. I am exhausted and out of ideas.
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We just went through this...started with an unexplained super high temp and disrupted sleep. (He's usually an amazing sleeper...7:30pm - 7:30am or later every day) He was waking up at 11/12pm each night and fussing for hours. The rash didn't show up til days after he was diagnosed, which was probably close to a week after the temp started.
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We were lucky and our son didn't really get sores...and the rash was surprisingly limited mainly to his belly, but when the ped looked in his mouth, she immediately knew what was wrong. (However, we didn't notice anything out of the norm when we attempted to check his mouth for sores.)
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He was super fussy and a high fever he was teething so a lot of drool anyways then a rash showed up a day later
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Now you guys are scaring me. My LO started this week off with a fever of 101 and lots of drooling for a few days. There were no other symptoms and the fever broke Tuesday so I chalked it up to teething. Now you're scaring me that it is/was hand foot and mouth and were still not out if the clear!
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My daughter had a mild case. She just had sores that bothered her a bit.
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I know that it can start that way, but she did not get a high fever. She definitely got all the sores though! Hope your LO feels better soon.
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@bunnylovesbear: This is us. Was he acting totally unreasonable? My normally pretty sweet guy is just completely defiant right now and I am going out of my mind. On a day when he woke up super early and only napped 40 minutes, he fought bedtime until 10pm. Now he's awake again with DH, and I just got done calming down the baby, who he woke up with his screaming when I had the audacity to ask him to calm down.
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@78h2o: @BoogieBea: @BabyMats: @bunnylovesbear: did everyone just have to wait it out? There's nothing they can really do for a virus, right?
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@Mrs. Yoyo: yup just waited it out
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@MamaMoose: J's HFM fever was higher than that (103*) the 101 fever I might chalk up to teething...?
Agreed on the symptoms though, high fever, awful sleep THEN rash/sores
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My DD had 5 days of 104 fever - Ped wanted me to bring her in again on day 6 and then that is when the sores popped out. For us it was just the fever, no other signs (beside normal fever stuff (cranky, lack of sleep, etc)
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Update: just a viral throat infection ... Always nice to pay $25 to be told to keep doing what you're doing and he'll get over it soon. Oh, please, let it be soon.
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I hope everyone is well again soon! This is exactly the way HFM started for us. He's not a great sleep and has had a cough for 2 months, so we were getting up anyway, but high fever TONS of drool and then shrieking night wakings where he would arch his back and push us away but keep crying. It was so hard to watch. the best thing (besides tylenol for throat/fever) was the nurse/bottle feed frequently, I think the liquid felt good on his throat (and his appetite for solids is no good right now).
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@maybebaby: this is my almost 3- year-old! I wish a boob would make it all better, alas.
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@Mrs. Yoyo: I've heard popsicles and frozen cup up fruit are helpful in that case! Sending healthy weekend vibes your way.
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@maybebaby: Thanks! He's so OCD, I think he might find a popsicle "too sticky." Frozen fruit could work, though. Or maybe a smoothie.
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@Mrs. Yoyo: Smoothie is a great idea!
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@Mrs. Yoyo: he actually wasn't too bad during the day. Definitely a bit crankier/more lethargic than usual, but nothing too extreme. The nights were the worst...he would just wake up screaming and there wasn't much we could do to console him. The super high temp was concerning....days of a solid 103/104 temp is scary. The dr's main recommendation was medicine to reduce the fever and around the clock fluids to avoid dehydration.
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