Four-year old's finger and toenails falling out

Guest over a year ago

have your children had hand foot mouth disease at all it has been linked! mt son had hfmd about two months ago and still loosing nails!

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Grace J. Sievert over a year ago

I am also looking for the answer why my 13 yr. old son's nails (6 of them) are falling off at the same time, with new nails coming out to push the old ones. I found your son's case similar to my son's, he also had "HAND/FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE MORE THAN A MONTH A GO. Maybe this what caused this.

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Guest over a year ago

Now this is a confirmation of my hunch. My son had hfmd more than a month ago, and now his nails are falling off one by one. 6 of them showing signs.

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Mrigs over a year ago

It might be from Hand Foot and Mouth disease. Both my 3 year old and 18 month old had it. About 6 or 7 weeks AFTER their symptoms seemed to disappear I noticed some of their nails peeling off from the base. I began to worry about vitamin deficiencies but read several other posts about this same problem! All I these children had the same thing in common...HFMD. Always call your dr to check but I wouldn't panic just yet. Hope this helps

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julie091113 over a year ago

My son had Hand Foot Mouth about a month ago and is also starting to lose his finger nails.

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Guest over a year ago

My son had impetigo about a moth ago (impetigo is caused by either strep. pyogenes or staph. aureus bacteria), I have noticed three of his nails will be falling off. Does anyone know if this could be the cause of his nails falling off? .....(I made a DOC appt for tomorrow, but I have to say I fee very uneasy

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Mama T. over a year ago

My 5 year old daughter's nail also fell off but not the entire nail she also has two split toenails. Her fingernail puffed up at the bottom towards the cutical bluish looking before splitting off. She was: diagnosed with hand mouth foot about a month prior.

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Guest over a year ago

I am so happy to find this page! i was worried when i saw my four year old finger and toenails after the HFMD

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Guest over a year ago

Thank you! For me this is really helpful! My 3 year old daughter had hands foot and mouth a little over a month ago and the last 2 weeks 3 of her finger nails and now her 2 big toe nails are falling off ! She is a little rough so I felt as though she might had smashed them or dropped something on them but then her toe nails started too . I'm definitely going to take her to see a dr but I'm a little more at ease that I'm not a lone and there are similarities with others!

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Guest over a year ago

He probably had Hand Foot Mouth and Butt Diease and this is a after symtom of this, it happened to me.

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Guest over a year ago

Thank you do much for this insight....my son also had h.f.m. Disease....so now I know. Thanks!

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Guest over a year ago

The same thing is happening to my 3 year old daughter. She was diagnosed with chickenpox 6 weeks ago. The rash only affected her arms, legs and neck. Now her fingernails are peeling off! Looks terrible but doesn't seem to be bothering her very much. I have been painting her nails with liquid bandage daily so that they don't rip off and cause pain, and putting on Polysporin at night to help prevent infection. Hope this helps someone.

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Guest over a year ago

Makes sense! I came here because my 4 year old daughters finger and toenails keep falling off. She did get hand foot mouth disease about 6-8 weeks ago. I would of never puit the coorelation together. Glad to know they'll grow back and be fine on their own :) THanks!

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Guest over a year ago

All 3 of my daughter (6, 4, 4) have the loosing of nails right now...they had Hand Foot and Mouth virus about 4-6 weeks ago and a lot of things I have read others had this same thing. IDK if your child had HFM or not but this is what I am assuming since it has happened MANY times to others in the past. There is also a genetic disorder called homocystinuria that causes this to happen as well.

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Guest over a year ago

This is hand, foot and mouth disease. Same exact thing my 5 yr old had a few weeks ago. He is now losing 3 fingernails. No treatment unless they aren't eating or drinking.

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