My now 19 month old has had this mystery rash since 10 months old and nothing to date has worked.
It started as these strange blisters that just appeared but overnight multiplied and became very inflamed. Called the doctor and they had no clue what it could be and prescribed fucidin cream. It cleared the blisters but then a dry red rash took its place. We were told to keep using the cream but the rash kept spreading.
Another trip to the doctor we were told its just a drool rash and to use vaseline which suprise suprise didn't work, same doctor then said to only bath every other day to not irritate or dry out the skin and use aveeno cream. The rash just spread and someday was very inflamed looking.
Another doctor thought it could be a bacteria infection out of control and prescribed the hydrocortisone fucidin cream which seemed to help for a few days before it came back worse than before. This is when we hit the 6 month mark of this and we were getting frustrated.
Another doctor prescribed oral antibiotics thinking the steroid in the cream was possibly feeding and encouraging growth of whatever it is and this seemed to work! It wasn't fully cleared but was assured the rest might go away itself, it didn't so a second course was prescribed and for the first time his face was finally cleared completely. Unfortunately this only lasted a few weeks so we were sent for a skin swab. When I was finally given the results I was just told everything came back normal and they hung up before I could question further about what to do next.
It's spreading again and now in the mornings is very dry and then inflamed in the evenings. He's had no fever or in any discomfort at all and hasn't spread it to his little sister who he shares everything with so it's not contagious. I'm at my wits end with this so was just hoping someone has seen it before as all I can think of now is requesting another skin swab and to be referred to dermatology.