Baby psoriasis

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I'm looking for anyone with experience of this.

I initially though my 3 month old has excezma, as did GP but despite cream it's rapidly got worse/ darker/ spread and the spots are joining. During the night it's spread up his face and neck.

It could be an allergy rash but the reason I'm worried is both his siblings have psoriasis. One flared up at puberty and now has it severely, the other had it as a baby but it has hugely improved with age and is nearly forgotten about apart from mild small patches. It was very difficult for him to diagnosed for years as 'babies don't get psoriasis' (despite them saying it looked like a classic case). I'm really worried now as ds' skin is looking more and more like his siblings, but pretty much all over his body (others had it in the folds of their thighs mainly, though older girl now has it mainly on face, chest and back).

It started as a combination of a covering of small rough red spots all over his trunk and larger pinky dry patches on his legs and arms. It looked like two different rashes, GP thought they were unrelated. Now some of the pinpricks have joined, behind his ears is very red and his cheeks are rough and spotty. A lot of his skin has a sandpaper feel.

Not in babies but my dd1 had a flare up of this in her last two years at primary school. Tbh nothing we tried worked terribly well and dd1 got tonsillitis which made it much worse - and then quite suddenly it seemed to have burnt itself out and is totally gone now.
Has your GP referred your son to a dermatologist? If not you should insist on thi - and ask who has a special interest in children and psoriasis.

NO, it's only been a few day, he thought it was eczema and gave lotion. IT's really rapidly changed though. I guess it's back AGAIN to the GP

Has he been unwell at all? A throat infection is often the trigger - certainly was for dd1. (I feel crap because I didn't take her to the doctors immediately and indeed it resolved without antibiotics but then the patches started. It was only much later that I put it all together - and of course the tonsillitis made things worse.) If you can pinpoint a trigger like that then that may make your case for being taken seriously stronger iyswim.