December 2010 Moms

did I mention DS has hand, foot & mouth?

yeah.

Two weekends ago, we were at a family bday party & DS & his cousin, who is a few months older than DS were hugging & kissing. Oh, how cute! Everyone said. Uh, no. I was cringing inside at the thought of germs, but didn't want to be "that mom" so I didn't say anything.

Well I guess maybe the next day (can't remember exactly), I notice a tiny pimple on DS's cheek next to his mouth. I didn't think anything of it. Tuesday was his well visit & pedi didn't mention it, either.

By the next day or so, it looked like an infected white head. By the weekend, it had a yellow blister extending off of it. 

I didn't think it was that bad, but MH insisted we take him to a walk-in clinic b/c our pedi is closed on weekends. So after traveling all over NJ for a clinic that takes kids under 18 months old, we went to a place by MH's sister's house & he's diagnosed with impetigo, which is a bacterial infection, & is given ointment.

He also had a fever of 100 at the clinic, and then 102+ the next day. It has come down since then, but he's barely been eating, totally cranky, and sleeping like crap.

The scabbing still spread, so we took him back to the pedi this past Tuesday. Pedi says it can either be impetigo, or hand/foot/mouth, or possibly a reaction to the Chicken Pox vaccine (which he got a week earlier). She saw like 2 lesions in his mouth, but nothing too crazy. She said to just continue with the cream & call her today to let her know how he's doing.

Today I tell her I noticed from yesterday that he had red bumps on the tip of his tongue. She said that confirmed it was HFM. oy. 

So we just have to continue with the cream & wait it out. I feel so bad for DS though b/c the lesions in his mouth must be causing him pain while eating. He will eat like a piece of cracker & then cry. And he won't let me brush his teeth.

The superficial part of me is just hoping it all clears up by Easter. Right now he is sorta looking like the joker b/c  the scabbing extends out from the corner of his mouth. Poor little man.

Sorry for another long-winded post!  I gave you all cookies, but I ate them, sorry.

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