Mysterious spotty rash (NOT chickenpox) doing the rounds - anyone else?

[Verso]

DD had this last week and was sent home from nursery with suspected chickenpox. It never materialised. After two days all the (tiny) spots faded, with no itching or crustiness (!) or anything.

(They went white under glass, btw - I checked!)

At the weekend I had a fever (38.5 up to 40C) but no rash, and the out-of-hours service said it was a virus and drink fluids blah de blah etc. Then yesterday I came out in spots all over just like DD had. Still slight temp (38C) but not itchy or anything.

Am hoping to get an emerg appt at the GP today just to find out what it is (no doubt just a virus!) but wondered whether anyone else has had similar recently?

sometimes you can get a rash with a virus - DS tends to get rashy if he has a fever so probably nothing to worry about but speak to GP if you are concerned

Yes!!
My DD had this 2 weeks ago, temp for 3 days and then temp went and came out in a rash.
Gave her piriton and it went after 36 hours.

Where were the spots? Could it be hand, foot and mouth?

oh yes 3 days a high temp horrid red rash really raised threy dismissed it as viral

Wow you lot are fast!!

Rash on back of neck, tummy... then spreading later to back legs and face (if that helps).

Taylormama - you're probably right that it's just part of the virus but I'll get it checked anyway as we haven't seen it before. (I don't usually get rashes with viruses - but maybe it's just this one?)

Loujay - sounds a bit like roseola infantum, my DS had it a few years ago, high temp for 3 days then better except a rash appears.
Not sure if adults can get it though?
Also it wasn't anything like CP when ds had it, more blotchy/flattish.

loujay - thanks for the tip re piriton.

flightattendant - that's exactly what I thought it was from doing the usual trawl of the internet (not always the best for these things, I know...) but yes - I'm a grown-up (allegedly) so how come I got it too?!

I'm scanning the messages on here to see if there's anything about Rubella and I saw this one.....this sounds uncannily like what my dd (2.7) has and we're off to the GP to check it out - just in case it is rubella.
Verso - let me know what your GP says it is!

Yes - ds1 (nearly 3) has had a blotchy rash on his face since Saturday morning. Almost cleared up now, but he still has a load of little red pimples. I assumed it was a hayfeverish thing and gave him piriton. Don't know if it's related but his behaviour has been uncharacteristically bad the last couple of days too.

Yes! dd has been a total nightmare over the last few days but that's not exactly uncharacteristic so I didn't link the two things

babynovice - GP said it's (and I quote) "justavirus" . Said to take an antihistamine if the rash doesn't go away tomorrow. Serve me right for getting all agitated about it, I suppose.

It's still there, but fading. Hope your dd is ok!

Verso - sorry for late response dd is almost back to her usual self now and it turned out to be tonsilitis she had - but GP couldn't explain the rash either.....hope yuor dd has recovered too!