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Previous thread "What-are-these-bites-rashes-something?" Plot twist! Coxsackie? Pictures included *warning not for fainthearted*

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stretch · 04/09/2017 09:22

Had a thread in aibu (meant to post in chat🙄) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3018195-What-are-these-bites-rashes-something?msgid=71514001
So after thinking it was chicken pox they started to progressively get worse. Over the weekend we went to OOH and the dr gave different antibiotics and said he thought it was coxsackie. I'd never heard of it! Only thing is, he has none on his palm of his hands, or his feet or his mouth. He also didn't have the sore throat or anything before. 🤔
The spots look nothing like any pictures I've found.
I have no idea when he should go back to school, how to treat them (they are so big) and I'm worried about the complications associated with it. Would I be unreasonable to get a 2nd opinion?

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stretch · 04/09/2017 09:23

These are them 2 days apart. The badly infected one is looking much better.

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StepAwayFromCake · 04/09/2017 09:46

Ai poor lovey, that does look sore. I don't think I'd send him to school like that. Possibly too vulnerable to knocks and scrapes leading to further infections, but also that if you don't know what causes the spots, you don't know whether he is infectious to other children.

Coxsackie IIRC is not a specific illness, but a group of viruses causing a variety of illnesses. I think they all cause fever and general poorliness, though. Did he start that way?

TBH (and I'm not a HCP) it reminds me of a relative who was immunosuppressed and was unable to fight off germs that others shrugged off. She kept breaking out in awful rashes and warty things. Which sort of fits with his history over the last few months?

Sorry, but it was over 10y ago, and I had very young dc, so I don't remember the details. She was exposed to my toddler when he began chicken pox, had a blood test the following day which showed that she was infected, and began a hefty course of Acyclovir immediately. It prevented the infection turning into active disease.

I think she had Acyclovir several times over the course of her condition, because virtually any virus caused her serious problems. Once her immune system issues had been dealt with, her skin cleared up. Now you wouldn't know she had ever been ill, but she has still to be careful regarding any risk of infection as she still has a weakened immune system.

Booner · 05/09/2017 13:01

I'd definitely get a second opinion. You might want to have a look at Dermatitis Herpetiformis rash images and see if it looks similar. It's associated with coeliac disease and my child had a similar blistery itchy rash, though not nearly as severe, before they were diagnosed with coeliac disease. They were constantly ill before being diagnosed.
Hope you can figure out what it is.

WhatHaveIFound · 05/09/2017 16:41

DS had very similar looking boils recently and it turned out to be Staph Aureus infection. Thankfully it was not the MRSA variety and it cleared up with antibiotics. Did your doctor take a swab?

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