Hand foot and mouth disease

[AlligatorsMum]

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.