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[soapdragon]

Anyone had any experience with this? I think YS (9) has it though Piriton isn't terribly effective. He is fine in himself, eating well and only very slightly raised temp but rashy on legs and arms (not torso) and slightly raised, dark red blotches on his cheeks. He won't take Calpol as says he feels normal. Just wonder how long its likely to last; have Googled it but info is conflicting...doh

[Chickabee]

Yes. I think it's related to chicken pox. It is contagious. Like chicken pox there is no cure, it just has to run its course. He's lucky he feels well, it can make older people feel very unwell. Hope he gets better soon

[Grandmashazzie]

It's a viral infection and like others some can feel okay and others are more severely affected. I would just keep eye on him. It is very contagious so keep him away from little ones. Hope he recovers quickly.

[Alis girls]

Just keep up with the fluids and calpol or ibuprofen or both. Piriton will help the itching and aid sleep. It's one thing mine escaped. Have you been near anyone pregnant as i think they might need to have blood tests. Mine had the hand,foot and mouth disease and scarlet fever or scarletina which i thought had disappeared. Wish him better. Just what you need over Easter hols.

[The Dogmother]

I wouldn't worry too much about it Soapy, from memory it isn't an issue provided he feels ok. It's just one of those things that children go through.

[soapdragon]

Thanks for the words of wisdom, peoples! Piriton helps the odd itchyness but, other than bright red cheeks, YS is absolutely fine! Temp is normal and the arms and legs are less rashy. As the infectious period is before the rash appears I suspect he picked this up at school the week before last; the rash started on Thursday morning and he broke up the previous Friday. I wonder how many little cherry red cheeked children there will be in his class when he returns a week tomorrow! Hopefully it will have gone down by then tho.

 

Don't think he has been in contact with anyone pregnant even tracking back a week or 10 days but I will mention it to his teacher when he goes back to school. Not sure exactly what the incubation period for this is; just waiting for ES, OH and I to go red........maybe we are already immune?

[HarrisonFamily]

It is one of the illnessess you may never even know your child had as it is quite often just a red cheek and slight temperature the government guidelines say they do not even need to be taken out of school....https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/522337/Guidance_on_infection_control_in_schools.pdf

 

However, as an adult the symptons are very different and I ended up in bed unable to move for a week !!!!!

 

Happy Easter Bank Holiday

[soapdragon]

Its certainly not a childhood illness that I have come across before with either ES or any of the children I have nannied or taught. Does look very dramatic though! Slightly concerned that someone will call Childline

 

I wasn't really aware that adults could get it (tho' its pretty obvious, I suppose ) I tend to get a little 'rosy cheeked' when I have gone a glass too far....if I come down with it I can just hear the comments on the school run

[The Dogmother]

It's just another of the joys of small children... slapped cheek, hand, foot and mouth, lice, chicken pox, threadworms....!

[soapdragon]

They just don't tell you about all that in those Mother and Baby magazines! You know the ones....pics of smiling, gurgling babies on the front lovingly held by Madonna like (in a religious rather than pop star sense) mothers. Oh no! It all stops at weaning then you are on your own, mate!

 

There should be magazines on how to drag your reluctant teen out of bed at 11am, how to 'persuade' them to do their homework, what to do when the tods stick Lego in the DVD machine, how to get blu tack out of the carpet, what brand of Gin is the best value. Hysterical, clueless mother? Me? Noooooooooo

[Valkyrie]

 

Actually I've never heard of this before!

[Cat tails]

Same here...

Now I strangely feel left out as a kid...

 

Wikipedia taught me there is even a Sixth disease!

[soapdragon]

Thankfully YS is now looking much less as though I have whacked him round the face - twice! He wasn't really poorly; just had a slight temp and rashy arms and legs as well as face. I'm pretty sure that ES didn't ever come down with this and hadn't realised that it was quite so absolutely bright red. Phew!