my grandaughter is staying with me and she has hand foot and mouth bug. should i be worried?

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If you are methotrexate and or steroids your immmune system is lowered, making you more suseptible to all illness,

The hand foot and mouth virus is a relatively mild virus and most adults would have some degree of immunity.

To be safe avoid direct skin/ body contact and wash hands regularly

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HI Jaqi i asked the same myself a week ago, i was with kids who had it and i didn/t get it.

A helpful person from NRAS sent me this link

nhs.uk/Conditions/Hand-foot...