Aw poor thing. Honestly I'd probably take her in but I run to the pediatrician for everything. Could it be roseola? Did she have a fever for a few days? Ollie had it last summer and that's kind of what it looked like.
This looks a lot like the viral rash DH had when we had the whole Measles scare in January. His was super itchy and he had to take a major steroid to get it to go away. Eventually they said his rash was a viral side effect of walking pneumonia. If it were me I would already be at urgent care or the ER. I'm so sorry @tambcat
Post by outnumbered on Mar 4, 2015 19:22:14 GMT -5
Did the rash start in her hair line on her neck? My daughter had a rash that looked like that. It started right behind her ear near the hairline. Within 6 hours it spread down to her shoulders and down her torso/back. It never got to her legs or feet. It turned out to be strep throat. It is also called scarletina or scarlet fever. I hope your baby feels better.
This looks a lot like the viral rash DH had when we had the whole Measles scare in January. His was super itchy and he had to take a major steroid to get it to go away. Eventually they said his rash was a viral side effect of walking pneumonia. If it were me I would already be at urgent care or the ER. I'm so sorry @tambcat
Was he sick before? She didn't seem sick at all until the rash appeared and hasn't been very sick. That's one of the reasons I'm not too worried about measles, although I wondered about rubella. I think it starts on the face though.
He would get these phantom fevers out of no where and felt pretty run down. Then he would have 2-3 days where he felt fine. We thought it was the flu at first and after the second week of him getting a low grade fever every few days he suddenly spiked a 102 fever and broke out in the rash. We did the aveeno baths to ease his itch factor and a topical anti itch creme. His was so bad he couldn't sit or sleep, etc.. The doctors too were pretty unsure of what he had and we had to finally go to a derm. I would see about getting her into a pediatric derm.