Hi my fiance and I have got a 17 and a half month old little boy who has been sick since last friday at first we noticed that he had a croaky like flemy cough but then by late saturday he was getting irritable and screaming/crying etc as we had no idea what was going and had high temperatures,we tried to ring a doctor surgery to see if we could get a after hours doctor to come out to our house but told us it would be a 3 to 5 hour wait and I said that wasnt good enough as we were very concerned about our son.We decided to take him to the redlands hospital at the emergency department to have him seen by a doctor and the doctor had told us that he had a virual infection and that he had blisters etc on his tongue and then diagnosed him with hand,foot and mouth diease I asked him how he could have picked it up he might have picked it up from the childcare centre he attends.

Can anyone out there let me know if adults can catch hand,foot and mouth diease/virus symptoms from a child who has got this virus if you could please email me at sweetgurl_24@live.com.au thankyou