Hand foot and mouth

Can someone please tell me some magic to helping our babies with HF&M. My little boy saw every hour last night, had 30 mins nap, and has already woken twice despite regular pain relief alternated between calpol and ibuprofen, we’ve got anbesol and difflam but nothing is helping him be comfortable enough to fall into deep sleep 😩 I can’t have another sleepless night, my patience for the constant crying is wearing so low

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We put a good coating of junior bonjela on a dummy and can that between wake ups xx you can use from 5 months plus it’s the only thing that worked for a more than 30 mins xx baby bonjela just doesn’t do it x

POXCLIN MOUSSE ALL THE WAY for body to help with itchy hands body and feet! Plenty of bonjela on dummy, cold drinks, fill dummy’s up with water and freeze them! Hang in there mumma it will get better as the days go on! My eldest had it when he was around 2, he didn’t have dummies but we froze the mam bottles with water upside down to help with the sore mouth! 🩷

You can try antihistamines. That's what I was given for my girl when she had it. Cleared the rash very quickly.

I second the antihistamines x

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