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Scarlet Fever experiences - how long until the strawberry tongue went away?

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Idonthaveenoughtime · 11/02/2013 12:58

My dd has had a 10 day course of antibiotics to treat a mild case of scarlet fever (she was perfectly well with it and still is) her elbows still have a bit of red mark on them which has gone silvery this morning so looks like the last of the rash is gone, and her tongue looks much less red and almost normal except that it is still covered in the large blistery things that give it the strawberry appearance. I will take her to the doctors tomorrow unless it's normal for the strawberry tongue to take a while to go even after the antibiotics have cleared up the infection?
Anyone have any experience with this?

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MolotovCocktail · 12/02/2013 10:53

My DD1 had it and the strawberry tongue took a while to disappear - I can't remember exactly but it was a good few weeks; possibly 2 months. Still take your LO to the GP, though :) You new to make sure that the antibiotics have completely worked.

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