HFM
Show your support
Anti bac wipes should be fine. The virus won't live without a host so after a few days will die on surfaces anyway.
My boy caught HFM and it was horrendous. I continuously cleaned but my other half caught it. He was really unwell with it but the docs said it was very rare, adults only usually catch it if their immune system is on the floor (docs words). My advice to you is to take vitamins to boost your immune system and obvs for the little one once they are better. Unfortunately even after all of my disinfecting my little boy caught it again! But it was no where near as bad. It just shows that if they are going to catch it they will, no matter what you try to do to prevent it. I never caught it so it was all a little strange but try not to over clean as it didn’t make a difference to us. 2nd time was wayyy more manageable. Also as a side note do expect some finger /toe nails to fall off after a while. Xx
Thank you everyone for your responses. I have been going out of my mind about cleaning and as a previous OCD avid cleaner i cant stop thinking about how much cleaning and how thoroughly I need to do it. I will give everything a wipe down but nothing too exhaustive :)
@Bekah how long after did your little boy catch it again?
My little girl and I had hfm last year. It's was awful. My hands were so painful I couldn't do anything. But it is really rare to catch it as an adult. And we just wiped things down with anti bac wipes. But probably missed some. My husband and our older boys never caught it.