To ask you what this is on my DS

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Not really an AIBU but..

DS cheeks have come up really red. My initial thought was slapped cheek syndrome, although I haven't actually seen it in person. Or maybe eczema but I'm not sure.

I've attached a pic. Does this look like slapped cheek?

Teething??

@Grumpbum123 It looks different than what it usually looks like when he's teething

5th disease or scarlet fever. Or just cold wind or teething if no fever

Teething or the wind.

How's his temperature?

Looks like dry skin to me and teething combined. My daughter sometimes has a similar look. She's teething at the minute and has eczema. After a couple of days it improves

Just looks like chapped cheeks to me. How is he otherwise?

My kids skin looked like this when they had milk. Turned out they're CMPA.

If he's otherwise well, then it could just be skin irritation. TBH, it looks like dry skin or chapping from the wind/cold. My baby used to look like this in the winter. He wasn't unwell.

He's super cute though. I'd want to suck those cheeks.

No idea, but this made me miss little squishable toddler chops so much!

Dry skin / weather / wind.

Teething. Cute chops!

Looks fairly unremarkable to me. Probably cold wind. Maybe teething too. Maybe a reaction to a product you have used. It doesn’t look like anything worth worrying about.

Have you changed laundry detergent or soap or introduced a new food? It looks a bit like excema due to an allergy. Unless he has been out in the cold wind a lot recently, but that would clear up quickly, excema wont unless you remove the irritant.

Was he outside yesterday? Agree with PPs that it looks red from the cold and wind combined with central heating inside. My youngest goes like that even after a short time outside in the winter.

I would say dry skin from cold weather and central heating. If he's happy enough in himself - playing and interested in life - then I would simply pop some soothing moisturiser onto his cheeks. Something gentle though. I recently applied Sudocrem onto my nose during a heavy cold. Geez it stung like hell and I felt so guilty for all the times I had put it on sore skin on the DCs when they were little!