Re: Bothersome tongue bumps-help!

January 1, 2005

Hi

Sorry to be late to reply to this post which I only see; my son had this

10 days ago, and was very down with fever and more flue symptoms. I went

to his doctor who explained that it was foot, hand and mouth virus, He

had two other cases on the same day. Because my son had actually been

scratching his hands asking what is it?, I thought this could only be

right. The advice was leave it and keep an eye on fever. The day after I

became aware of his listers on his tongue he got way better already and

has had since a very very good week and is very switch on. I caught the

stuff though too.

Hope this help- You can look it up with goggle, there are lots of info

on the matter.

Lorene

Epidemic Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Caused by Human Enterovirus

71, Singapore

*Kwai Peng Chan,* Kee Tai Goh,† Chia Yin Chong,‡ Eng Swee Teo,§ Gilbert

Lau,§ and Ai Ee Ling**

*Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore; †National

Environment Agency, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, ‡Kandang Kerbau

Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore; and

§Centre for Forensic Medicine, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore,

Republic of Singapore

/Suggested citation for this article: /Chan KP, Goh KT, Chong CY,

Teo ES, Lau G, Ling AE. Epicemic hand, foot and mouth disease caused

by human enterovirus 71, Singapore. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online]

2003 XXX [/date cited/]. Available from: URL:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no1/02-0112.htm

j_kalis wrote:

>Hi. My son has had a really sore tongue for the past 4-5 days. It is

>sort of like his taste buds are inflamed, but sort of like little

>ulcers. It hurts him so bad that he cries sometimes and he usually

>has an extremely high tolerance of pain. It started out as 5 or so

>bumps and now he has new areas that are bothering him (on the

>tongue). My first thought is that it is something viral. My second

>thought is some type of an allergic reaction since he is an extremely

>allergic child, but I don't know what it could be a reaction to.

>Nothing has changed. I am surprised this is still bothering him. Any

>thoughts on what this could be?

>

>Thanks,

>

>Many frequently asked questions and answers can be found at

<http://forums.autism-rxguidebook.com/default.aspx>

>

December 31, 2005

,

You might find clues by going to google, then selecting Image search.

Then enter

tongue AND (EBV OR epstein OR varicella OR (herpes AND simplex))

Google will rant about the AND but will deliver the image-search

results. Perhaps you'll find something similar to your son's tongue

phenomenon.