Rash/open sores

[nicolewi]

So this is weird. Last week, friends came up to our cottage. One of their kids had these kind of awful looking sores that were covered up by Band-Aid. The Band-Aids kept falling off. Her mom said the sores started as small itchy spots, came out of nowhere, with no illness or fever, and had rapidly gotten worse. When they went home, they went to the doctor, they tested it and found it was not viral, and gave her a course of antibiotics. Apparently those cleared it right up. No one else in their family has gotten anything.

Well, today, my 11-year-old came up to me and told me she had a weird spot on her stomach. Started out as a red itchy spot, and within a few hours had opened up, as if a blister head popped or something, but there was never a blister. I sent it to my friend, and she said it looks like what her daughter had. She’s apologizing profusely, and it’s fine… kids get weird stuff and I’m not mad. But of course it’s Friday, and now the doctors office is closed. Just curious if anyone else has had something like this erupt out of nowhere.

I’ll take her to urgent care if it gets a lot worse this weekend, but otherwise I’m going to wait until Monday.

[puppylove64]

Is it Molluscum? My toddler had them, and they are supposedly highly contagious, but nobody else ever got any.

[nicolewi]

Aug 16, 2024 21:12:39 GMT -5 puppylove64 said:

Is it Molluscum? My toddler had them, and they are supposedly highly contagious, but nobody else ever got any.

No, I don’t think so.

[fortnightlily]

Impetigo?

[waverly]

In our area we had so many cicadas. Then those died and now we have the mites that apparently lived in the cicada eggs or something. Lots near Oak trees, so they are calling the Oak tree mites or Oak Tree itch.

These cause a bite that looks like a bulls eye and it is extremely itchy. It’s not an open sore but could become infected and open if scratched.

[nicolewi]

I googled last night and I’m also wondering if it could be some form of impetigo, but not around the mouth. I guess we’ll see! She still has some red dots, but only one open scabby thing…so remains to be seen whether it progresses, or fades away.

[nicolewi]

Update: it is, indeed, some form of impetigo. Apparently it’s very contagious and more of us might break out in spots. Fun! Thank goodness it’s on her stomach and not her face. Should clear up easily with antibiotics.

[tiki]

nicolewi yikes! Glad you got it diagnosed and started on antibiotics. Is there anything that does work to keep it from spreading, or did the doctor say others getting it was just sort of inevitable?

[nicolewi]

You have to have contact with it, so maybe none of us will get it. No one else in the original family that spread it to us got it, but we figure DD got it from using swim floats/paddleboards together. It's on her stomach so she probably laid on a toy where the other girl had been??

You could catch it from things like clothing, shared towels; infected kid accidentally touching it and then touching doorknobs, faucets, etc.