This happen to my granddaughter, she's got the sores Only in her mouth and had just got the chickenpox shot about four or five days ago, and got a fever , then sores, crying continuously, doesn't want to eat , hardly drinks and that's what the doctor suggested yesterday is that this is hand , foot and mouth disease which I know from reading on the Internet that it comes from the Coxsackie virus.
I don't believe the Doctors will be truthful with parents and tell them this issue comes from the shot because they want the parents to get their children these shots THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO PREVENT DISEASE! Yeah RIGHT❗The stuff that they put in the shop today for children's immunizations is disgusting and causes all kinds of diseases ❗❗❗❗❗❗❗please please do your research before you get the shots❗You can also sign a waiver and the public schools as far as the immunizations for the child goes .it's truly devastating to see your children go through all these problems after the shots and all the diseases that it gives your children ❗
A shot to prevent chicken pox can not cause hand, foot and mouth disease. It is very possible the child picked up hand, foot and mouth from another child at the doctors office. Coxsackie and chicken pox are not related. This is nonsense.
No she didn't get it from the vaccine.
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But if a kid who had Hand, Foot and Mouth was in the pediatricians office playing with the waiting room toys while waiting to see the ped, and then your granddaughter played with those same toys while she was waiting for her shot, she could have gotten it that way.
I had that happen more than once with my kids - go in for a well-child visit, and within a week, come down with a virus that they probably picked up at the office visit. I try to keep them from touching too much while waiting, but it's hard to prevent. It's annoying in the moment, but in the long run - just one more chance to build up that immune system.
Hope she feels better soon. Hopefully the doctor told you how to help her with benedryl and an antacid. If not, call again and ask.
ETA: now that there is a ranting SWH, I regret that I took the time to give a thoughtful answer...
Per your what happened, and your question, this question is BS! No grandma would be on here with giant exclamation points and fake facts. If you want to make a point stop lying and tell your story. Telling us your nutty ideas based on fake news is really irritating, not helpful.
I'm sorry for what your granddaughter went through.
If you are an anti-vaccine person and looking for validation by assigning blame for a disease to an unrelated vaccine, you're going to have a hard time getting support, especially on Mamapedia where people are generally quite well informed. Too many kids are getting horribly sick from unvaccinated kids in their classrooms and scout troops, not from the vaccines themselves. Read up on "herd immunity" which has been the basis of vaccinations since the 1950s. This is why kids are not dying from measles, whooping cough and smallpox.
Why would doctors want to give children shots that don't work? Why would they lie to parents? And why should my child get sick because you signed some form making up a reason why your child shouldn't be vaccinated (in spite of all the research, public health policy and more), and then your kid brings a disease in to mine?
If you don't like the answers you get here, that's fine. People come to Mamapedia for opinions, and those opinions will vary. If you're really only looking for a particular answer, that's up to you. You want us to say that the varicella vaccine causes Coxsackie? Some might, but most will not. But I really advise you not to rant against us with all kinds of bright red exclamation marks yelling at US to do research! You can find all kinds of erroneous stuff on the internet, junk science that is repeated from one blog to the next without any verification. Same thing happened with the vaccine/autism rumor. The research was faulty, couldn't be duplicated, and the medical journal that published the original paper retracted it and disavowed it. It doesn't matter how many people keep screaming about it, it doesn't make it true.
In the meantime, your granddaughter is not getting the help she needs because you have made a decision already. You can speak to the child's parents about finding a different doctor who agrees with you, but that's about your only option.
NO! They are two different viruses.
Your granddaughter was exposed to HFM and then got her vaccine for chicken pox (which is a form of the herpes virus not the coxsackie virus) and broke out with HFM after getting the vaccine....WHICH SHE WOULD HAVE DONE EVEN IF SHE HADN'T GOTTEN THE VACCINE.
You can only catch an illness from a vaccine that has LIVE virus in it and only the virus that was in the vaccine. And that is RARE.
Yes, HFM is the worst illness...my son picked it up at mother's day out and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It was a nightmare to get through. Hope she feels better soon!!
why would a chicken pox vaccine give anyone HFM disease?
khairete
puzzled S.
The vaccines can give the kids the illness. Everyone knows that. If they do react to the vaccine and get the illness it's often a much much much lighter case than they'd have if they had not had the vaccine at all.
If you grew up with friends that had polio and saw a calf die from Tetanus, no human should go through anything like that, and saw your own child as an adult with a scarred up face from chickenpox you'd have zero issues with getting your kids/grand kids their shots on time.
No - two totally different things.
We have a relatively high population and survival rate because vaccines have really cut way back on the number of people that die from diseases.
Hand Foot and Mouth is really common and it's not just one virus but a whole family of them.
Some people get horrible cases of it while others have very mild cases.
When our son got it at daycare - he never even broke a fever and just had a few blisters on his hands and feet..
There may come a point where antibiotics no longer work and it will be common once again to bury many children while only a few make it to adulthood.
Look at any cemetery before WWII and you will find graves for plenty that died young.
Your anger is unreasonable and misplaced.
Actually - we've got a snow emergency happening in my area.
It's not unreasonable to expect some kids might be home from school, bored already and trolling web sites.
This might be one of them.
since they are two seperate viruses i say nope a chicken pox shot cannot cause hand foot and mouth. HFM is highly contageous though so it was probably on the door handle in the drs office and thats how your grand baby got it.
as per your SWH... if you are against vaccines this is not the place to do it as many here do vaccinate and many do not. its personal preference and not something that needs to be debated on a momma helping mommas site.
Ok so you ask if your child got hfm disease from the chickenpox vaccine and when everyone says no its two different diseases you decide to let us all know that we're wrong for giving our children vaccines? I'd say that you need to 1) not ask questions when you don't want answers that differ from your opinion and 2) do your research and see how many children died or were disabled by the diseases before the vaccines were around.
What is your question?
Thank’s for your question Karen.
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