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Help quickly!!!!!!

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 19:37

OMG!! My son is 22 months tomorrow and I have just noticed a red, pinprick tyoe rash on his upper chest during a nappy change. It DOESN'T blanch, but he is fine and happy in himself, no temperature, good appetite.

What do you think?? NHS direct??

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waterfalls · 21/04/2006 19:38

heat rash? dribble rash? has he been wering a wet top/t-shirt?

waterfalls · 21/04/2006 19:39

do you mean it does'nt fade? if so A&E now.

chapsmum · 21/04/2006 19:40

Yip the on blaching rash in menigicocal septicieamia will be seen on an unwell baby. It is a sign of the blood poisening. It is prob just a viral rach,
NHS 24 for re-assurance

VeniVidiVickiQV · 21/04/2006 19:40

ring to be sure, yes - although im pretty sure a temperature would be present in the serious one you are thinking of though.

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 19:40

Nope!! They look suspiciously like tiny blood blisters. He did fall, splat on his chest yesterday...and the day before that (he's always in such a hurry!)

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 19:41

Waterfalls, doesn't fade. Just aout 8 or 10 tiny sports on his upper chest

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KBear · 21/04/2006 19:41

could be heat rash - been warmer today. Also allergy rashes come up like pin-pricks sometimes. Is he on any anti-biotics? If you're really worried, I would call the doc though, no hesitation at all.

waterfalls · 21/04/2006 19:44

Well, personally I would get him seen, but then I am a drama queen when it comes to kids health.

chapsmum · 21/04/2006 19:44

seriously, the rash in menigitus is caused by blood poisening, you would really expect to see it on a very unwell child, give NHS 24 a ring and they will speak to You as soon as they feel it is nessesary to.

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 19:47

On the phone to NHS direct now....... being put through to a nurse...

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waterfalls · 21/04/2006 20:13

Any news?

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 20:33

Have an emergency dr appt at 9pm. Had the guy on the out of hours line stumped! Ds is currently running arounf the living room in just a nappy, terrorising his older brother! There certainly doesn't appear to be much wrong...but kids can go downhill fast, so I feel he should be checked out.

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Wallace · 21/04/2006 20:46

My ds gets a rash like this if he has been scratched (he likes a good back scratch - daddy's boy!) It goes all red, then turns into a red pin prick rash which doesn't blanch.

Good luck at doc :)

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Heartmum2Jamie · 21/04/2006 21:27

Well, have got back from the dr. He's not concerned, says ds may come out with something viral in the next day or so, although if he falls very poorly or the rash changes drastically, we should take him to the hospital. The one other thing he did say was.....don't ring nhs direct!!

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chapsmum · 21/04/2006 22:54

That is a bit unfair, what else are you supposed to do, just sit on it and take the responsibility on your self?
Out of hours GP's can be so unsympathetic sometimes, I honeslty belive that half the job is face to face re-assuracne which is very nessesary!!!

chapsmum · 21/04/2006 22:55

Glad everything is ok, though, rant over!!

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Heartmum2Jamie · 22/04/2006 09:40

Oh, rant away chapsmum, I wholeheartedly agre!! Sometimes NHS direct are as useful as a chocolate teapot, but they have been pretty useful for me most of the times I have rung them.....and this is the 1st time we were told to go to out of hours gp.

Anyway, after trying to find out myself what ds's rash is, I think I found it, but not sure how he got it as it can be cuased by many things!
He is still well in himself, and the rash, although spreading, is doing so very slowly, so slowly that it is hardly noticable.

I think this is what he has. I had no idea that there were other things that would cause a non blanching rash. Maybe I wouldn't have panicked so much if I had known in the first instance!

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melissasmummy · 22/04/2006 10:00

do you think he could have said not to ring NHS direct cos they take ages (sometimes) to get back to you & was trying to say not to waste time with that but to go straight to hospital? Just a thought.

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Heartmum2Jamie · 22/04/2006 10:40

Not in this case (we were put straight through to a nurse). The dr was being extreamly sarky. I think that he was trying to impress the young, female student he had with him. His exact words were "don't ring nhs direct, they will only tell you to go to the dr.

I have to admit, in the 5 years I have had kids, this is the 1st time I have been told to go to the dr and I have used NHS direct many times. I could tell that the dr was no impressed about seeing my son for a rash when he had no other symptoms.

Ok, rant about out of hours dr over!

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chapsmum · 22/04/2006 10:47

Heart2Jamie, I work in A and E and although I sometimes feel that NHS24 referrals can be inappropriate, I would a)never say it in front of a patient
2) Ususally realise that there is an element of face to face re-assurance that is needed and so no referal can realy be that inappropriate.

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