A video that gained widespread attention on TikTok featured a mother revealing that both she and her child were infected with hand-foot-and-mouth disease from a Grocery Store shopping cart. Syd, a popular TikToker known for sharing content related to lifestyle and motherhood, posted a video that showed her son seated in a shopping cart, accompanied by pictures displaying redness and lesions on her hands and in the vicinity of her mouth. The text that overlayed the video said,

“puts baby in the shopping cart for the first time, gets a horrible case of hand-foot-and-mouth.” 

In another video, she responded to a questions from a user who asked if her baby was infected. 

“Yes, my baby did get it. That’s how I got it. So he got it from the grocery cart,”

she said.

“He touched [the cart] and then put his hands in his mouth, like all babies do.” 

Although she claimed she conducted the proper sanitary precautions after her trip to the grocery store, she added

“But it was already too late. He started showing symptoms a couple of days later.” 

The CDC states that hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a mildly contagious viral infection. Typical symptoms are

“fever, mouth sores, and skin rash mainly on the hands and feet,”

reports the Daily Dot. Although not life-threatening, symptoms may persist for about 10 to 12 days.

The TikToker revealed that despite her family being infected, she seemed to have gotten it the worst.

“Thankfully, he didn’t have too bad of symptoms. He had a slight fever and a little bit of a rash was uncomfortable for a couple of days, but he’s recovered now, thankfully, and didn’t get it as bad as I did,”

said the stay at home mom. 

#Clique, what are your thoughts?