Morse spots

[ailbhe]

Spot - no - spot - no - rash - no - spot - no.

They've almost totally cleared up on her torso and moved to her arms and legs.

Comments

[velcro-kitten.livejournal.com]

could be Hand Foot and Mouth - has Emer complained of a sore mouth - mouth ulcers are a very definite sign??

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

IANAD but I'd bet a lot that she doesn't have chickenpox. It just doesn't come and go like that and has definite pustules.

Fifth Disease,perhaps?

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Do they seem itchy? I've had hives behave like that, coming and going, and hives can be triggered by fever.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Could be purely viral. Jack gets that now and again - the first couple of times I took him to our lovely GP who prodded and felt and stroked and said "nothing important, just a virus, take calpol". Now I keep an eye on spots but he's never had anything that hasn't cleared up in a couple of days - usually it starts on his torso and I don't notice it until bedtime so he's been to nursery with it too.

[ailbhe]

She's definitely not ill enough to warrant the hassle of the GP. I am assuming, at this stage, that it's Just A Virus. And amazingly I'm the only other person to have anything like it. And she will only sleep or nap in contact with my bare skin.

Oh god, I am so tired. I think it's paracetamol time tonight. We don't like to overdo the rectal paracetamol.

(I'm glad the doctor I spoke to on the phone was never my mother though - he said "There's nothing you can do for chicken pox." I said "What about paracetamol and calamine lotion?" He said "They'll just make her feel better, they won't do anything for the chicken pox.")

[radegund.livejournal.com]

He said "They'll just make her feel better, they won't do anything for the chicken pox."

OH MY GOD I AM PUCE WITH RAGE! Bloody HELL!

Um. Not sure why this particular instance of an entirely familiar trope should have made me splutter at the screen. Possibly because I'm cuddling my baby at the moment?