{"id":817607,"date":"2026-10-29T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817607\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:40:40","slug":"hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-not-a-notifiable-condition-says-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817607\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand, foot and mouth disease not a notifiable condition says Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 07:16\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/349648-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Common, and highly contagious, in youngsters\n        <\/p>\n<p>Public Health has confirmed it doesn\u2019t routinely recommend isolating children from childcare settings who are suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease.<\/p>\n<p>The common, but highly contagious, condition is a viral illness which causes mouth ulcers and a rash or blisters on the hands, feet and sometime groin and buttocks.<\/p>\n<p>It typically resolves within 7\u201310 days without specific treatment and is not notifiable.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/hand-foot-mouth-disease\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/hand-foot-mouth-disease\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Keat is a Consultant in Public Health:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 07:16 Picture credit: Manx Radio Common, and highly contagious, in youngsters Public Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}