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Fifth Disease
By Mommie | June 1, 2008
I’m a germ phob, I always have been. With our oldest child going to kindergarten this year, I’ve been worse than usual. She has to wash her hands when she gets home from school, get all that icky kindergarten sludge off her hands. Luckily she hasn’t missed a day of kindergarten. But with the baby around, I always worry. A few weeks ago we were informed that there was a outbreak of Fifth disease at her school. I had never heard of it, but I homed in on the part of the letter from her school that said “small risk of miscarriage”. As I’m looking to get pregnant, it scared me to death. So what is Fifth Disease?
Fifth Disease, also called Slapped cheek disease, is a fairly common childhood disease. There is no treatment for this disease. It’s spread like a regular cold, by coughing or sneezing, using pencils and utensils that infected persons have used.
Symptoms develop 4 to 21 days after getting exposed. It resembles the picture above, of a child that’s been slapped. Then a rash breaks out on the body.
After you get this once, you never get it again, kinda like chicken pox. And yes, there is a small risk of miscarriage, but everything I’ve read showed no conclusive evidence that the miscarriage was 100% related to contracting fifths disease.
Luckily, there are only a few more days of kindergarten left, so the germ farm will be closed for a few months.
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