Hi Ladies,
I'm feeling quite worried about my little 7 month old girl's BCG site.
We dithered for a while about getting this done as, although we live in a high risk London area now, we will shortly be moving to Surrey where babies are not given BCG routinely.
Anyway, Esme did have the injection on 17th Feb, reacted strongly the next day and then had nothing on her arm at all until 2 weeks ago when a large hard red bump appeared. The doctor checked it and said not to worry and that it would get worse before it got better.
Now it's an angry looking red/purple lump the size of a 50p piece which looks huge on a tiny arm.
I anticipate that the lump will pop and be pussy but will she be left with a scar the size of a 50p piece? Did anyone elses babies react so strongly? The other babies I know have small pimples at the site. I feel really terrible to have scarred her perhaps unneccesarily.
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Big BCG lump on a little arm
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Pippa103 · 20/04/2010 08:58
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20/04/2010 13:37
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