Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

Found out yesterday that Hunter has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (viral infection, caused by the Coxsackie A-16 virus). He started breaking out in a weird rash on Tuesday afternoon (red spots on the palm of his hands, soles of his feet and blister patches on his legs and feet). The blisters almost looked like poison ivy, but they weren't itchy. Other than the rash, he was fine - no fever, no loss of appetite, he was drinking plenty of fluids. We were scared of staph, so we took him to the doctor yesterday and she looked at the spots and looked inside his mouth and found little mouth ulcers. He wasn't complaining abou his mouth hurting and he was still eating/drinking, I never thought to look in his mouth for sores. No antibiotic for viral infections so it'll just run it's course (10 days), but she did tell us to mix maalox, benadryl and lidocaine together to swab in his mouth if he's in pain. We were able to get the pharmacy to mix up the solution just in case, so we have it if he starts to hurt. He's definitely a trooper, this has not slowed him down one bit! I'm hopeful that Harrison will not get it since he's a breastfed baby and the doctor agreed with me, so that's comforting.