It can also take a few days for the spots to appear. We (both my DS's & I) had it in October last year...my DS2 showed signs first which were spots around his groin and bottom then hands, feet, knees and around the mouth (but thankfully for us was not in the mouth). DS1 was about the same but only 1/3 of the spots (maybe 10). I only had hand and feet (probably about 20) For us it started just getting sick...loss of appetite, temps...basically feeling like a cold/flu. I believe it can also be a secondary illness- so if you're run down with something else it has a good chance of appearing. Then a month after our blisters had gone I found both DS2 and I lost our finger and toe nails on the ones we had blisters (DS1 only had a mild case...so his nails only had slight 'bubbles' so not enough for them to fall off when they grew out).

We are on 'spot alert' too at the moment. Our kindy had 4 cases as of last Monday and 7 cases as of Thursday (including a friend of mine who's son who is in DS2's room...he'd had't been to kindy since the Friday before and he's spots appeared 4-5days later...he had an ear infection and tonsillitis to begin with). Hopefully our cases from last year (and DS1's case from whether he was 15months) are enough to keep it at bay...though we all have coughs and colds at the moment :-\

Hope you's can avoid it too...DS2 has had croup a couple of times and I know how that is :-( Hope your household is all healthy again soon.

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