dd feeling grotty, and spotty

[Blandmum]

anyone else have anthing like this? She is a bit below par, and has an itchy rash.

A friend who is a gp thinks it is an allergic rash, I'm just interested to know if there is a virus 'doing the rounds' atm. It faded with an antihistamine, which is now wearing off and the rash is coming back. It isn't chilchen pox, and she has had all the relevant jabs

Ta muchly

Both mine are prone to rashes. Ds1 gets bad urticaria (don't know the all the triggers, though he is allergic to penicillin) which is very raised, like weals, very red and very itchy. When it's been very bad he's had to have steroids. They both get viral rashes quite regularly, with coughs, colds etc. which are usually a finer, dotty sort of rash - rough to feel, not as angry looking as the urticaria. Regular doses of Piriton help, and I soothe it with Lacto Calamine.

If you haven't done anything different lately - washing powder, bath stuff etc. then isn't it more likely to be a viral thing, especially as she's under the weather?

Urticaria - ds1's has been even worse than this and I can't find a picture of what I think of as a viral rash (but I've just looked at some yucky pictures and feel quite ill )

sonds like urticaria, and looks like it....which I also get. It isn't a pin point rash, but rather flat, rasied roundish 'whelts' of about 0.5 -1 cm

She had a sweet at the friends which she had never had before, which had a few e numbers in.

Probably allergic then, plus the left over of a cold

Yep, definitely sounds like urticaria, poor girl. Ds1 just gets flare-ups from time to time and I can never figure out why. Thankfully it doesn't happen very often and Piriton usually clears it up.