Baby G infected with HMFD?

Tuesday evening, Aunt told us that Gavin is having fever and to pick him up early. Gave him paracetamol and he slept through the night ok. However, his fever did not subside yesterday morning and we decided to bring him to see the PD. We told him that he has been drooling a lot for the past few days and when looked at his throat, he said there are a lot of ulcers in his throat. It was then he told us baby G is having HFMD. He started to question us where he might have caught the virus. Our minds were blank for a moment before we gave a thought and we could not really recall who he might have caught this from as he is not attending any child care and other kids that he played with since Sat have not gotten the virus. So we were skeptical that baby G has caught the HMFD but then again, the symptoms he is having are indeed symptoms of HMFD. We just have to trust the PD's diagnosis.

It has been tough past 2 days as baby G feels very irritated with this throat as he kept drooling. He could not sleep properly always seeking assurance from us by wanting us to always carry him. To couple with that, he is required to take different medication at 3-hr intervals. He is already having phobia with it, grabbing hold of us tightly whenever we bring the medicine towards him. It has been really heart pain and tiring to see him in such pain. Up till now, fever has subside but throat is still having lots of red ulcers. Thus far, no rashes have developed. Hope he gets better soon.

Poor Gareth, we had to isolate him from his brother and thus he has to stay with his "kim poh" since yesterday. His mummy called and told him that we not bringing him back as his brother is sick. He disappointingly said ok. This morning, when Gareth's aunt went to pick him up, he kept asking for mummy. His teacher told her that Gareth has been moody the whole morning in school and cried a few times. Poor boy can't come home today as well. We are also missing him already.