Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hand Foot and Mouth Disease

JJ and Asher with spots on their faces
 The last couple weeks we have been quarantined with Hand, Foot, and Mouth.  JJ and Asher were the first ones to get it.  They both got fevers and then a couple of days later the spots showed up.  At first we weren't sure if it was HFM or Chicken Pox because they had it covering their whole body and not just the areas that are normally affected.  JJ had already been vaccinated for chicken pox so when they both didn't get any spots after the first day we knew that it was HFM.  Maddie and Emily got it the next week.  It was a good thing the boys got it first because neither of them ever got any spots.  We wouldn't have known what it was if we hadn't seen the boys with it first.
JJ's spots on his arm

Asher's spots on his arm.

JJ's spots on his face.

Asher's spots on his face.


Luckily they were both in really good moods after their fevers broke.  I don't think they had very many in their mouths and the ones on their body didn't really bug them.