Coxsackie virus

I got a phone call today at 12:30 pm from the director at the preschool saying that Allison is showing signs of the Coxsackie virus, aka hand, foot, mouth virus. It's something that is easily passed from children to children. She caught it at the school for sure. One kid in another class had it on Monday and hasn't been back sick. I had to pick up Allison right away. Luckily I was already home, but this made me have to cancel my driving lesson, which I'm still not happy about. In hindsight, I could have let her taken her nap there and then picked her up.. 

We took her to her pediatrician to confirm and yes it's true. the visible signs are red pimple type bumps in the diaper area, hand and foot. Yesterday I did see many in the diaper area, and today there was only one pimple on the hand and one on the foot. She is not allowed back to school within 3 days. Good thing the weekend is here, so she only has to miss Monday. Ideally we keep her at home a few more days. This is not a serious illness and most kids get over it without any treatment. Bumps may form in the back of her throat in which it will make swallowing uncomfortable. 

• Hand, foot, and mouth disease, a type of coxsackievirus syndrome, causes painful red blisters in the throat and on the tongue, gums, hard palate, inside of the cheeks, and the palms of hands and soles of the feet.  
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In other news, we got the test results back which tested for dairy, egg, and food panel allergy. She has none, so that means we can try dairy again. She is low in iron so I will make sure to give her iron rich foods. Extracting the blood for those tests was pretty painful for Allison; 4 viles were required (another one for lead test) and the nurse lady squeezed her hand so hard...