I think my kids are cursed with my “weird illness and injury” stuff.
So in the month of February…Ella had what started as 1 dry patch on her arm. I thought “Oh sh*t its ring worm from gymnastics”.
Then a few days later more of these red “patches” appeared on her torso and neck.
I started thinking my child had the chicken pox! You hear about people getting them even though they had been vaccinated. She was running a very low grade fever as well but acting totally normal.
Few more days…and she has this rash all over her body!
And to make it worse…it was like she had these burn marks on her wrist and legs. I thought she had bruises or marks form riding bikes at preschool…
I watch as these marks continue to get read and dark. She still has no pain or any other symptoms so I don’t really worry.
Then we notice her thumb skin is peeling off…for no reason…
…and then sores around her mouth…
More thumb sores and mouth sores.
And her leg wasn’t clearing up.
Luckily we had her 5 year check-up scheduled…so we got a doctor appt and was able to ask what the heck was going on. Doctor was concerned. She thought it could be a weird virus OR something more serious. So we were sent for blood work (which came back normal thank god). She did a rapid strep test that came back negative and we were all ok.
A few days later her peds called me back and said the strep culture actually came back positive. Ella had a weird form of strep that was appearing in a rash…which is scarlatina aka Scarlet Fever! yes…who the hell knew that Scarlet Fever was still around these days….weird right. So after 10 days of some pretty strong antibiotics Ella was good to go!! Thank goodness.
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