Basic Information:
- Gender: Female
- Age: 11
- Condition: Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
June 11, 2012
Testimonial:
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
All of sudden my 10 year old daughter complained about the tooth brush I gave her recently. “It is too big and it hurts my gum.” I bought children’s toothbrush for her when she was little. I had given her the regular ones whenever she needed a new one for a while. I did not understand why she had not complained about this earlier but promised to buy the children’s toothbrush for her just to stop her complaining. As she kept complaining about it, I checked her gum and found not only a big wound in the far back of the gum next to her throat, but also a small hole in the middle of her tongue. I could not understand how toothbrush could make such a wound there and questioned about the hole in her tongue. She just shrugged her shoulder and said: ”Probably I bit it myself”. Without knowing it? How could it be?
Thursday morning she expressed how tired she felt when I drove her to school as usual. That evening she begged not to go to ballet lesson after school but still made through it as the performance was near. Then she had fever with sore throat next morning. Strep throat test in the Doctor’s office came out as negative although the temperature reached 102. “Virus.” Go home with no treatment at all.
Mouth pain made it impossible for her to eat anything but some liquid chicken soup. She continued suffer through the weekend and showed frightening symptoms Monday morning– swell lips with some blister on the top and the edge of her tongue were distorted in shape by numerous blisters. I screamed when I first saw them. I had no idea what might be the next and I was really frightened. Rechecked in the Doctor’s office and were told that my daughter for sure had got Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease which usually attacked younger kids and currently were around the day cares in the local area. No medicine for this disease yet. Only suggested to rinse the mouth with the mixer of Benadryl and another over the counter medicine, and to take Motrin, for the fever and the pain, and wait for the virus to go by itself in 7 to 10 days.
Tongue Pain
The mouth pain and the weakness caused by the disease and hunger made my daughter suffer a lot and me hard to wait and see. I turned to Dr. Owen Liao for alternative treatment. The acupunctures and energy treatment three times in a row helped my daughter felt better and rest better. Soon she recovered from the disease by gradually resume her diet to regular food but still it took her a while to be back to her old energetic self because her weight dropped from 89 lbs to 82 lbs in just 5 days. She had stopped all her activities for more than 10 days.
I heard the disease is not a big deal on little kids. But from what I have witnessed through my daughter, it is far more serious than chicken pox. I wonder how much of this disease is known by the doctors and nurses as parents have very little clue or support from these professional people.
I appreciate that Dr. Liao is around and I can count on him.
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