It seems my DS has come down with this too, except he has it on his chin as well as the mouth.... Any other ideas to keep him comfy apart from some panadol? He already suffers from excema so we have oodles of creams around.
Oh Mrs O'M im so sorry to hear that! DS only had a few in his mouth (i only ever saw one?) so Thankfully i would call his HFMD a mild case.
Ive just realised ive come out with it but I ONLY have the mouth ulcers. Ive had the ulcers now for about four days which i can tell you are so painful and uncomfortable i am just so thankful my DS didnt get them in his mouth. I am in a fair amount of pain and it is very difficult to talk, eat anything (hot or cold) and sleeping is also pretty difficult. I have been taking a mixture of antiseptic mouth wash, difflam losanges and nurofen.
i think the difficult thing for little ones are the fact that any numbing stuff for the mouth shouldnt be swallowed, and i just dont know how that is possible with little ones. My son sure doesnt understand spit dont swallow!
I would just keep up with the nurofen and panadol. i alternated the two in the worst days. i hope your little one recovers quickly!
edit - if the mouth ulcers are really painful, my peadiatrician was going to give me a script for Xylocaine Jelly, but again this is supposed to be wiped all round his mouth and then spat out / not swallowed otherwise the whole throat goes numb, which is difficult for little ones to swallow etc... I chose not to use it cuz he didnt have mouth ulcers and was eating fine. Just thought i would give you the name of it incase. You do need a script for it though.
Last edited by AlligatorsMum; May 13th, 2013 at 03:22 PM.
You poor thing, sounds awful! Thanks for the tips, hopefully DS doesn't develop a terrible case, it doesn't appear too bad at the mo, but he is really grizzly and cranky which is unlike him.
DS2 was diagnosed with this today. Hoping it wont get too bad. He has them on his feet and hands luckily none in his mouth so far. Fingers crossed it stays that way
there must have been an out break recently as my dd who is 23 months got it 3 weeks ago.
she had a mild case, slight rash on arms & hands, and blisters on her feet, toes and unfortunatly all in her mouth and tounge!
she was in so much pain, and dribbled a lot!
she would get very upset when she tried to her her manderin and found out it hurt too much.. after a few days and alot of nurofen and sleep, she recoverd..
part of me wondered if it contributed to my miscarriage?
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