DD has purple bruise like mark on her face which isn't a bruise??

[lovelylentils]

Hi,
DD (15mo) about 3 weeks ago developed what looked a bit like a bruise on her cheek. I'd didn't over worry as she's recently learnt to walk and seems to fall over/ walk into something/ hit herself with a toy daily.
Any way, it's still there and clearly not a bruise. It's a purply bruise colour about the size of a stamp. It's not raised/ dry skin/ bothering her at all, it's just there!

Is this something to ignore or do you think I should take her to the gp??

Any ideas what it could be?

(NB - she eats well, could sleep better, but on the whole is very happy and healthy)
thanks

I would get it checked by the GP.

How dark purple is it? Is it changing colour, darkening or lightening, is it changing shape?

Ds aged about 3 weeks suddenly developped a dark purple bruise like mark on his arm. It came over about 30 minutes, during which time he was entirely under his baby gym playing happily. It was only about 1/2" wide, but about 1-2" long.
Rushed him to our very experienced GP, who thoroughly checked him, and thought he'd probably (being dc#3) been knocked without us realising. It took about 3-4 weeks to completely go.

However from about 3 months onwards, he used to get a viral rash frequently. A viral rash is similar to the meningitis rash, in that it doesn't fade, but it isn't actually an issue on it's own, and indeed ds was never actually ill with a viral rash. He never had the one big spot again, but often got lots of small ones, pin prick size, so I think the big bruise was probably the same.

It is worth having checked. Ds has, on several occasions had blood tests (not nice for little ones) to check. They've always (thankfully) come back as viral rash, but I did generally take him to the GP for checking over just in case it was something worse.