Slapped cheek or allergy?

[VanityKase]

3yr old came up in a rash Friday afternoon. Pharmacist says allergy but nothing has changed in her diet / detergents used etc. Husband thinks slapped cheek. It was much more of a bright red today. All over arms, legs, neck, feet, hands and cheek. Pharmacist was also a bit “not really sure just keep an eye on it” wooly which didn’t gain confidence.

Is a GP visit required? It’s fading now and little one has been very happy the whole weekend. Not out of sorts.

I think if this were my DD that as long as no temperature, eating/drinking happily, weeing as normal and if you've done the glass test on the rash, I wouldn't bother going to the GP just yet.

It doesn't look like allergic hives to me either.

It’s slapped cheek. Nursery confirmed some cases occurred over the weekend. Thank you for your response :)

I'm glad you have the answer. Just to say you can become allergic to anything at any point so even if nothing has changed it can still be allergies just to something that previously was tolerated or not a previous allergen.

Slapped cheek. We had it recently. I was one of the unlucky 5% of adults who got it bad. They should really be brutally honest about that, what it means is i couldn’t get out of bed for a week, it hurt to walk for another weeks after that, and it took 7 weeks for me to regain full use of my arms! Carpel tunnel like symptoms. Bloody awful. Kids were fine, just red. The redness comes and goes, and sometimes it’s a bit raised but more like a map than hives. Lasted about 2 weeks for them.

@AllThePotatoesAreSinging wow that sounds horrendous! Hope you’re doing better. Little one is full of energy and bouncing about like beans as we speak. I didn’t even notice any viral symptoms prior to the rash when little one probably WAS infectious. Rash is still fading day by day so causing less discomfort now (the rash was really hot to touch and LO was complaining of that).

Thank you for all the responses.

Thanks, I was unlucky. Been a lot of it around! Very glad you can only get it once 😂 Good news LO is otherwise well and it should stay that way now x