Yes it is 2009 and my daughter has scarlet fever. I know that it isn’t rare but it is relatively uncommon in this day and age. Scarlet fever may sound super scary but it is basically strep throat with a rash.
This morning, Ava complained that her chest itched. So, I told her to scratch it. She got herself dressed so I didn’t think anything of it. We were getting the tires rotated on the vehicle and I noticed that she had some weird spots on her leg. I thought they might have been mosquito bites or something but then I remembered her itchy chest comment. I peeked under her shirt and was surprised to see a rash covering her entire torso.
We ended up at the doctor and she said that the rash was rough which leads her to believe it is a strep rash. Ava had a little headache yesterday, which isn’t really uncommon for her. She hasn’t had a fever nor has she complained of a sore throat. The doc did a rapid strep test and sure enough, it came back positive. So now Ava has scarlet fever.
Here’s Ava, in all her rash-y glory.
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yes very common, usually very harmless and hardly talked about now. Hope she’s better soon.
Breeze
Thanks Breeze, she’s dancing around the house as we speak.
Hope she’s better soon. When my first husband was a kid, he had scarlet fever, and they quarantined him and his mother for some time in the apartment. I seem to remember something about having to sanitize the entire apartment as well, including the insides of cupboards, closets, etc.
How times and science/technology change.
Wow, I’m not up for sanitizing the house so yay for science and technology updates! hehe
Her rash is a bit worse today but she’s still pretty much asymptomatic aside from that and a headache.