slapped cheek disease

ethandron | 12:29 Mon 03rd Oct 2011 | Body & Soul

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anyone heard of this?
i hadn't until my hairdresser told me her young son had it a couple of weeks ago. i googled it and it is a recognised disease, who'd have thought it??
i wonder when it was first 'discovered', i don't remember it being around when my two were young, maybe we just used to call it a virus.

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ummmm

Yes....My niece had it. Didn't know it was an actual disease though.

sherrardk

I was under the impression that it was an 'old' ailment. It's supposed to be very contagious but looks worse than it is.

daffy654

My son had a rash once and was diagnosed with 5th disease. I had never heard of that one either.

redcrx

its also called fifths disease.

Id never heard of it either until my son got it. It is quite common though.

redcrx

its same one, daffy, i think the original nanme is fifths, but its more known now by slapped cheek

redcrx

http://www.nhs.uk/Con...ges/Introduction.aspx

NOX

it's a harmless disease in people but is life endangering to the unborn child of a pregnant woman. My ex had it when she was pregnant with our eldest daughter and had to go for weekly scans of the baby's heart to make sure all was well, and STILL 13 years on they do very little to publicise the harm it can do to pregnant women and most peole have never heard of it full stop.

ethandron

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yes, same thing, parvovirus B19. not the same parvo that animals get though.
there used to be something called hand and foot disease or mouth and hand disease or something along those lines, when mine were young, although they never had it.