I wonder if there’s anything that will speed the healing of the rash. Cortisone? Neosporin? Any thoughts?
Just wanted to share with y’all that I am losing one fingernail as a result of this. All the literature says it’s temporary, the new one will grow in just fine. Still I’m grossed out. Have you ever had a fingernail peel from the tip? Well, it’s doing that, but from the cuticle end. Gross.
Once you have it and recover, do you develop immunity and never have it again?
Is there a vaccine to prevent it? Or any attempts to develop one?
Do they treat it with daily doses of mycoxafloppin? 
So odd that this thread shows up. 2 weeks ago I was visiting one of our manufacturing plants near Boston and I have one of my employees tell me he has “Coxsackie virus” and that his wife had it years ago and they thought it caused a miscarriage.
Well, my wife is pregnant and it is nearly miraculous since we were told 4 years ago that it was impossible (to the point that we adopted our son 2 years ago). It took everything I had not to punch him square in the mouth.
Senegoid–you’re immune to the strain of the virus you had, but there are lots of viruses that cause this cluster of symptoms. No, I haven’t found anything about attempts to create a vaccine, though with everything there IS a vaccine for maybe the researchers are getting bored.
August West–I wondered about this and pregnancy, because we’re trying to have a second child. I can’t find anything saying that it’s particularly bad for pregnant women.
IIRC the name derives from the earliest cases being diagnosed at the Coxsackie Youth Facility (state incarceration for juvenile delinquents), located in Coxsackie of course.
****I came down with coxsackie when we got home from Florida a few weeks ago. And let me tell you. It was PAINFUL. It started with a fever of 101-102 and bad headache. On the third day I woke up with 12 blisters inside and down my throat. I had red pimples on my hands and feet. But they didn’t itch. The Doctor confirmed I indeed had coxsackie. For 4 days I couldn’t eat and drink. I couldn’t even sleep for more than 30 mins at a time without getting up in such pain that I couldn’t even swallow.
I have No Idea were I contracted this ? I do not have children ? But boy did it hit my like a ton of bricks. 95 % of the virus is gone. The only things that is left is my hands are peeling were the pimples were. But no pain at all.
All I could take to easy the pain ( For me anyway ) was Advil. And that only worked for 2 hours at a time.
Good luck. I didn’t start to drop finger and toenails for a month or more after the peeling stopped. All in all I lost two finger and three toenails. Superglue really helps that process, btw. Get yourself some.
Always surreal to stumble onto your own zombie thread.
You superglued your nails back on? Why?
Living in Coxsackie is probably the American equivalent of living in or near Lassa, Nigeria or the Ebola River.
The disease that caused the 1993 hantavirus outbreak in the Four Corners region has since been dubbed Sin Nombre Disease (“the disease without a name”) because of the stigma.
This sounds like some very unpleasant stuff.
Hard to explain if you haven’t seen it. Rather than just falling off, some of them only came half unstuck, or delaminated on the diagonal. It would have required a lot of nail-clipper surgery to detach the loose portion without drawing blood, so I just superglued them back in place until they grew out. It worked really well. Re-applied it every second or third day.