My daughter (13m) has recently developed really sore patches on her cheeks and chin. I can’t say exactly when they came up but I want to say in the last 2-3 months. They can get really angry and sore, especially on her chin; it clearly itches her as she picks and picks at it and rubs it on my shoulder. This makes it even more sore and it can often bleed
ive seen the pharmacist twice; one said to try antihistamines as it could be a reaction; one said to just try barrier creams. Neither worked. We then showed the pics to a doctor who couldn’t tell us exactly what it is - mentioned something vague about it maybe being the tail end of a virus / impetigo / eczema - but in the end prescribed a weeks worth of antibiotics to try and get her chin a bit less scabby and infected-looking.
she’s due to finish these tomorrow and there’s been zero improvement - if anything it’s getting worse. The sore patches almost look like they’ve got little spots in them?! But not squeezable ones. The heat has made her a lot more itchy so we’ve had little bloody patches on her pillow tonight 😞😞😞
worth mentioning that she has a single spot of the same sort of skin on her shoulder. So initial wonderings of whether it was just a rogue teething rash went out the window when we noticed this.
i appreciate we might be running headlong into an experiment with every cream that has ever been produced to find one that’s ‘just right’ but I’m chucking this out into the void to see if anyone recognises these symptoms and has any advice - in particular im wondering if it could be dairy intolerance as it possibly coincided with her having cows milk instead of formula… altho as above my timings are a bit shaky.
any potential musings welcomed x pics of the scabby babe for context