painful red spot on top of head

[hazlinh]

DD (5) has been having a red spot on top of her head for maybe 2 weeks. It's not raised or anything, it's just that a small coin-sized area of her scalp is red in colour. She says it hurts when it's pressed.

Saw a paediatrician a week and a half ago and he wasn't entirely sure what it was but thought it might be an insect bite and her skin was sensitive. He gave fucicort cream to apply, and I haven't been applying religiously, but the spot is still there.

Does anyone know what it might be? Should I go back to him? Or try another paediatrician. Or a skin specialist??

any picture

hi alypaly, good point. i shd try and get a photo.

and to add to that, suddenly discovered today that dd seems to have two balls behind her ears, swollen glands or something?! is it dangerous?

give me some help...whereabouts behind her ears...on the lobes or at the junction between ear and head,bottom of ear. Are they red,skin coloured,????????????????

yikes didn't realise there were lots of variables. it's behind the lobe i think, am at work now so am trying to recollect oh and it's skin coloured. but took her to a gp yesterday, and he said it was a bacterial infection? and gave her antibiotics. but he said it had nothing to do with the spot on her head, which he referred us to a dermatologist for....