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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to be disgusted beyond disgust.

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Quadrophenia · 30/04/2008 22:27

right will try and summarise.. My twins suffer from terrible mystery spots, i have posted about them quite frequently on here in a quest to find some answers as to what they may be. Anyway someone raised a possible cause as something called hydradenitis supperativa, so i did some research and joined a forum. I had to be approved to join and once i'd done so i posted the history etc and some pics (the same as on my profile).
Well anyway someone demanded the photos be taken down as they are porn graphic (deliberately mispelt) , now I'm sure any rational person will see there is nothing offesnive about these pics but the mods duly obliged and took them down. I feel shocked and really quite saddened by this hysteric response, AIBU?

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Habbibu · 01/05/2008 08:20

Don't look like psoriasis to me, Quad - the skin on top would be scaly and the patches would be evenly raised - looks to me like there are central bumps on your pictures.

And as for the other forum - what a load of nonsense...

lovecat · 01/05/2008 09:11

The ones on the side of the torso do look like molluscum (DD suffered outbreaks of that with every new tooth, poor sausage) but the big ones on the legs do look like bad bite reactions... hope you find some resolution soon.

(and that site is f-ing ridiculous! Filthy minds... mind you, my ex-windowcleaner (the gingerbread-stealing nutjob) came through to the back of the house one time last summer while DD was running around nekkid and wagged a finger at her sternly going 'shame! shame!' - she was 2.6 ffs! Some people are just weird...)

paddycat · 01/05/2008 10:50

Where on earth do people get the idea that a child's body is shameful in this way? What kind of adult would you have to be to see a sexual connotation to these pictures? Actually don't answer, I think I can imagine.

We had an incident at our local Cannons - my 3 yr old ds got out of the water and kicked his swimming trunks off while I was putting a hooded towel over his head. The lifeguard came over and shouted at me about the danger of paedophiles watching, which was embarrassing for me and for the 3 other people in the pool at the time (who by implication had been called pervs). I complained to the club who were very sympathetic and said the lifeguard would be spoken to.

Even worse, ds then asked me what a paedophile was - not a conversation I wanted to have at that stage of his development ...

SheikYerbouti · 01/05/2008 10:55

thsat children are seen as sexual beings.

Your children weren't even naked - there's some peolpe out there who areodd beyond belief

porn graphic

SheikYerbouti · 01/05/2008 10:55

What forum was iot? I'll go on there and post pictures of my arse

misdee · 01/05/2008 11:02

they do look very much like bite marks to me. last summer i got bitten terribly, i was itchy, they were sore and they take ages to go.

but yanbu.

i have a picture of a flare up on the back of dd1 knees from when she had eczema but you can see a nappy on her. have never posted it on profile as i always felt someone might get offended, but i always felt like i was being unreasonable.

NotQuiteCockney · 01/05/2008 11:07

North Americans are freaky about nudity.

Another (rather unpleasant) possibility - any chance of bed bugs? The big raised ones might be. Although bed bug bites normally come in threes ... Bed bugs are in the UK, they are a complete bloody nightmare to eradicate. They might only be in your kids' beds, or maybe your kids react to the bites and the adults don't?

Madlentileater · 01/05/2008 11:11

your poor dds- hope you find a solution.
haven't read the whole thread. But I can imagine being concerned (for your dds sakes) that the pics were publicly available. Whichis not to say that they are in anyway offensive or sexualised, but that some people could misuse the images. Remember if yo put anything on the web, you then have no control over how it's used and it may stay there for ever, accessible to everyone. Does that make sense?

NotQuiteCockney · 01/05/2008 11:13

Huh? Her DDs aren't identifiable in the pics. They're just closeups of some spots - it's not even clear what gender the kids are, never mind their identities.

(Ok, and I don't care about pics of my kids online. But even if I did ...)

colacubes · 01/05/2008 11:15

?????????????? nutters, nothing offensive about those pics, makes you wonder what perverted mind sets they have to look at a childs body and see that!!

Hope you find some answers about dc soon, will have ask around, sometimes answers come from the weirdest places,

Saggarmakersbottomknocker · 01/05/2008 11:23

The world has gone mad I think.

They deffo look like bites Quad.

Have you thought about keeping a diary when they flare up? It might help pin down where they have been and who with (dogs/other animlas/other people's houses).

orangina · 01/05/2008 11:23

THey do look like bedbug bites..... (so sorry you got the grief on the other forum, they are clearly nuts, nothing porno about your pics at all obviously...).
If you think they might be bed bugs, it is fairly straightforward to work out if you have them or not (perhaps not quite so straightforward to get rid of them...)

Oliveoil · 01/05/2008 11:23

nutters

lol at sheik putting photos of arse on the site and lol at the victorian wit

no idea on spots, sorry

before I had children, I visited my friend and her children were playing naked in the garden, there is NOTHING more beautiful than a plump, squidgy, podgy thighed, naked todder playing in the sun

the world has gone mad, mad I tell you

TheHedgeWitch · 01/05/2008 11:33

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Rosylily · 01/05/2008 11:40

The big lumpy spot looks like what I and my dd get when bitten by mosquitos. We take a bad reaction while the boys in our family just have little spots when bitten. The cluster looks a bit like flea bites.

SquonkTheBeerGuru · 01/05/2008 11:41

don't see anything wrong with your pics at all.

Except, of course, for the huge spots that your poor children are suffering with.

Sorry I can't help with a diagnosis for your twins.

But I can help with a diagnosis of the people on the other forum... They're stupid twats

QuintessentialShadows · 01/05/2008 11:41

These spots looks like something I get now and then.

The first time I got it was on holiday in Paris. I saw a doctor there about them, and he said they were moscito bites. He explained that because it was a particularly dry year, it affected the serum in moscitoes and I had an allergic reaction beyond the normal, and from now on this was likely to be the reaction on ALL insect bites I would get. He wasnt joking. Since then all insect bites I get are large, with a raised bump, that is transparent orange in the middle, it develops a crust, and it oozes. I dont know enough about allergic reactions and histamine to explain it better but it made sense when he explained it (given my non-fluency in french)

northernrefugee39 · 01/05/2008 12:51

oh how completely and utterly ridiculous!
They aren't pornographic! Can't help thi nking that anyone who thinks like that must be ..um...odd.
Is it a US site?
Pathetic. ( mothering .com is the only US one I've tried, and, I'm just glad mumsnet exists that's all!)

Hope the spots clear up, they do look like bites but I'm sure you've investigated that.

Sheikyerbooti

"What forum was iot? I'll go on there and post pictures of my arse"

VictorianSqualor · 01/05/2008 13:03

YANBU.
You look like someone I know btw.

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