A mystery rash - not chicken pox but what else could it be?

[charmkin]

dd not unwell but not 100 percent. Rash looks like chicken pox scars iykwim. Any guesses?

presume you've done the glass tumbler thing?

just going now to do that after checking nhs website

nope
more dry but definately spots. Looks like little raised patches of excema

Could possibly be urticaria (think thats how it is spelt) ds had it a couple of weeks ago, normally caused by a virus or allergic reaction. Take him to a doctor just in case it is something more serious.

no it looks more like chicken pox but she has had that. Can you get it twice?

Could be a virus. They can cause rashes.

look at fifths disease - last year peadiatrician initially wrongly diagnosed our ds as have chicken pox when he has this. of also are they like a rash of tiny chicken pox and ONLY on one side of the body? co ds had this too and its shingles - but he has to have had chicken pox

but you can get chicken pox twice ( or so I was told at ds's initial incorrect diagnosis) especially if they first time they get it they are very young apparently

Shingles?

i have had chicken pox 5 times now. pretty much when i come into contact with it. i first got it a 6 weeks and the doc just said cos of that my body cant fight it even now

my ds had chicken pox at 9 months. This summer he developed a rash on one side of his body ( his hip) apparently also the classic place. to start with I thought his pants were too tight, over a couple of days it blistered like a collection of tiny chicken pox - he was due a doctors visit for preschool vaccines so I asked her. they were starting to scab. She wouldn't give him his jabs and said he had very classic shingles. I had never heard of it in a child...but she also said if it flared up again he should go straight away for an anti viral. This was a different person to the one who had previously misdiagnosed 5ths .

sorry..Alibaldi I read it that you were saying..what you think he had shingles? not could it be shingles? sorry for detailed explanation of ds - I feel a right lemon