Diagnose this nasty thing on C's leg (gross pip)

[textbookcase]

Spider bite? She has had this since the day before yesterday. At first it just looked like a mosquito bite, then yesterday I noticed a black dot in the middle, surrounded by white (pus) and red/infected-looking around that. I cleaned it out and put hydrogen peroxide and neosporin on it. Today it isn't as red/infected looking but the white pus area is much bigger. It is probably the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil. Should I do anything else? Take her to the doctor?

[Jalapeñomel]

spider bite.

[Marle]

Hmm it could be an ant bite. I'd go to the dr if it gets more red or hot or if it grows.

[dcannie]

surrounding areas warm? redness spreading? take a pen and outline the redness, check it again in an hour or so.

that is what an ant bite looks like on me and it takes a while to scab over and go away.

[Marle]

And seriously people I am going to douse myself on bug repellent!

My new scent: buguard!

[jaylea]

As long as the red ring doesn't increase in size, or you see lines coming out of it, probably treating it with neosporin is fine to keep it cleaned. I would hope to see a decrease in it's infected appearance after some more neosporin.

[textbookcase]

dcannie, I drew a line around it last night and it didn't spread. It came off when I was cleaning it today. It isn't warm to the touch.

[textbookcase]

Thanks, guys

[speckledfrog]

If she lived here I would think it's an ant bite. MH has a similar reaction to them.

[textbookcase]

Aug 15, 2012 10:46:15 GMT -5 frkls said:

i'm from new england, so bulls-eye bites always freak my freak out because i automatically assume it's a deer tick

Well, it doesn't have that ring separate from the rest of the redness, like a bulls-eye rash.


Like this.

Also, we don't have deer ticks and it's too hot to be outside to play!

I'm thinking spider bite. We have plenty of those.

[lilafowler]

Is it hard and hot? Ellie had a bad spider bite a couple of months ago-at first it looked like a mosquito bite, then turned huge and her leg was swollen and hard and hot in the area. WE called the pediatrician's 24 hour line and they said to ice it and give her benadryl and ibuprofen-luckily we had her checkup the very next day so the pediatrician confirmed it was a spider bite but by then it was getting better. She suggested the ice/benadryl/ibu regimen.

We also had to put bandaids on it because girl would not stop scratching it and we didn't want her to make it worse.

[textbookcase]

Thanks, Lila! I will try the ice if it gets any worse...it seems like it's getting better now. I think the neosporin is really helping.

[bab]

I'm not going to lie, that looks like it could be chicken pox. I know the disease is so rare now that kids are vaxed for it but sometimes that vaccine does not take.
I have never seen a spider bite filled with pus like that. Are there any other spots on her?

[textbookcase]

bab, no other spots. I would think if it was chicken pox at that stage she would have more spots, no?

[Marle]

My chicken pox spots had water not pus. If it was an infected one I'd think she would have more spots by now. But it's a good thing to keep checking her just in case.

[bab]

Aug 15, 2012 11:12:33 GMT -5 textbookcase said:

bab, no other spots. I would think if it was chicken pox at that stage she would have more spots, no?

Yes, most likely there would be several.

[bab]

It could be an ingrown hair or a pimple