Two-year-old child is full of red spots and mother warns

The internet was on high alert after a mother shared photos of her 2-year-old daughter with what looked like severe chickenpox. According to her publication, it was actually something much worse.

Emma Reavley noticed, for the first time, red dots on his daughter’s neck, emily, in April of this year. Quickly, the spots began to spread over the child’s body, who found it difficult to eat, as his throat was sore and blistered.

Upon taking Emily to a hospital in the UK, where they live, doctors said it was just chicken pox. However, hours later, her daughter had a body temperature of 39ºC. Emma then took her daughter to another hospital.

Doctors immediately diagnosed the girl with hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), a contagious disease whose symptoms are high fever, the appearance of red spots in the mouth, tonsils and pharynx and the eruption of small blisters on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. According to the hospital, Emily was the third patient who had the symptoms that day.

The little girl spent two weeks in “quarantine” to prevent the spread of the virus. Although she has since recovered, Emily’s body is still riddled with scars.

initial symptoms

Emma said in her publication that the first symptoms that Emily had were the small red dots on her neck, which appeared to be chickenpox. Another daughter of hers, Evie, had contracted the disease a few weeks earlier.

“It was just a few spots at first, but they literally started spreading in front of my eyes. And as the day went by, it got worse”, reports the mother. “Her body was covered and she also had blisters in her mouth and throat,” she told the Daily Mail.

After being diagnosed with chicken pox, Emma realized something was wrong. 🇧🇷[As bolhas] they didn’t look like chicken pox. I have so many kids, I knew what they were like,” she says. Emma is the mother of 7 children in addition to Emily. “I decided to keep an eye on them, but the next morning they were so bad I knew something wasn’t right.”

correct diagnosis

After receiving the correct diagnosis – hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) – Emily spent a few hours in the hospital while doctors monitored her heart. At home, she took medication to heal the wounds in her throat and lessen the spots on her skin.

Doctors warned that the girl would have to stay away from other children for 40 days so that the disease did not spread. “That’s a very long time to keep a child in quarantine,” claims Emma. “She kept watching everyone go out and play. It was pretty boring for her.”

Five days after being quarantined, little Emily started to recover, but it took six weeks for the blisters to completely clear her body.

“Looking at her now, she is a totally different child from the pictures when she was sick”, says the mother.

Emma’s goal is to raise awareness among parents about the danger of hand-foot-and-mouth disease. “I never knew HFMD could be so radical,” she said.

She also advocates the importance of keeping an affected child isolated. “I would tell any parent whose child has HFMD to follow doctors’ orders and quarantine them for two weeks because it’s so contagious and it’s airborne,” she says.

What is hand-foot-mouth disease

According to Dr Drauzio Varella’s website, hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a contagious disease that has symptoms such as high fever, the appearance of red spots in the mouth, tonsils and pharynx and the eruption of small blisters on the palms and soles. of the feet.

It is caused by the Coxsackie virus of the enterovirus family. They normally inhabit the digestive system and can also cause stomatitis (kind of mouth ulcers that affects the lining of the mouth). Although it can also affect adults, it is more common in childhood, before the age of five.

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