Please help! Ill toddler - temp/nappy rash/maybe thrush - connected?

[DitaVonCheese]

Please help. DS is 13 months. A couple of days ago I noticed thick white stuff in his mouth so I think he might have thrush (we're still breastfeeding).

He's also had hideous nappy rash for the last couple of days - I can't tell from googling whether it's a thrush rash or whether it's because he didn't have enough changes yesterday while we were travelling (but wasn't in a dirty nappy for any length of time). Neither Daktarin or Sudocreme have made any difference to it so far. It's raised and slightly scaly, livid pink under his balls and around that area.

Finally he's had a temperature since last night - but nothing about thrush I've read seems to suggest this would be a symptom (?). He had his 12 month jabs (MMR etc) about 2-3 weeks ago - could it be that?

Last night he basically didn't sleep at all. Looks like we're shaping up for similar tonight ... I just don't know what to do. If he had eg a cold for example then I could treat that, but I don't know what's wrong with him and I'm not sure who to ask at nearly 5 pm. Health visitor? NHS Direct?

I have paracetamol so I can give him some more of that but I'm a bit reluctant to treat a temperature if it's fulfilling a function (ie fighting infection). He seems relatively okay in himself.

Feel like an idiot for asking but just not sure what to do.

Definitely not an idiot for asking, particularly when he's likely to be uncomfortable. Other than the white stuff in his mouth, which does sound a bit thrush-like, is there any chance he might be teething?

Any reaction to MMR would probably have come through within the first five days after the jabs, so this may not be related.

Might be best to phone NHS Direct and talk through symptoms with them, just in case.

Thanks for replying :) Yes, forgot to mention teething - his seventh tooth is about halfway out - could that cause white stuff in his mouth?

His nappy rash was still horrific when I last checked but his temperature seems to have come down :) We did have some nappy off time but ended in disaster so nappy is back on for now ...

Don't know if teething could cause the white stuff, but small child here always develops a scary level of nappy rash very quickly when a tooth is on the way. Despite best effort it usually only clears once the tooth is out.

Sorry about the disaster on the nappy free front - I do hope you have wooden floors?

Glad the temperature's on its way down too.

We currently have quarry tiles but he missed them by about six inches and caught the rug, which is (1) due to be replaced in the next few months and (2) not ours

Thanks again for the replies/advice :)

my DS had all those symptoms and it was Hand, foot and mouth. At that age it doesnt appear on the hands and feet as such but more in the nappy area

Hmm, that's interesting - I've had a google and HF&M can be contracted from contact with poo, which he had in his mouth about a week ago though the sores on t'internet don't look white.

Going to take him to the GP tomorrow to get him checked out I think. Thank you for the help :)

GP says thrush. We have drops :)

Good to know - well, not that he has thrush, but that it's nothing scary and can get sorted! Hope he's back to himself soon.

Yes, nice to have a nice easy diagnosis (and I've been v lucky with no symptoms so far).

He did not look particularly ill in the doctor's as he trashed the place (who keeps three boxes of latex gloves at toddler waist height anyway?!)

An idiot?