Just as we thought that the entire Hand, Foot & Mouth episode was history, our first HFM patient, Kid 2, suddenly discovered that her nails were about to create another nightmare a month after recovering from HFM rashes and blisters! Two of her fingernails on her right hand slowly dislodged itself from the the cuticles literally overnight and started falling out! I had briefly read about this happening to some Mat Salleh children when I first googled HFM on the internet during our first HFM attack. The mother of that blog warned of severe peeling of the skin as well as fingernails falling out!
It happened sometime after K2 shed her skin, so to think that the HFM virus was still creating havoc to their little bodies was rather upsetting! K3 was the next to have peeling nails. K1 had just slight peeling of the outer nail on one or two of her fingernails. K4's peeling was relatively minor too. As for me, a couple of my nails especially on those fingers that were badly blistered, started to split and dropped off too.
~ Jottings by an Exhausted Mother of Four
who continues to have horror flashbacks when she hears of the three letter words H-F-M.
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| Ewww.... |
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| Ouch! |
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| YUCKS! |
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