Hi
Hoping someone can help.
My little girl had fever and vomiting over the weekend. She went to sleep Sunday with no spots and no rash, then woke up Monday with a few spots around her mouth. Within an hour it was loads of spots. By evening it was covering all of her chin, and this morning it was chin and up to nose. By evening today it was up her cheeks but now as clusters of spots all over her body.
Face is by far the worst, followed by her genitals/bum area. She has spots on her ears, chest, back, arms, hands, fingers, feet, legs, knees, genitals and bum. Nothing on sole of her feet or palms and from what we can see nothing in her mouth. It's spread so fast that it's completely changed hour to hour.
She's still running a high fever throughout the day which we had been treating with calpol and nurofen. We've now halted nurofen over fears it's chicken pox. Her temp is regularly reaching 40C although this happens often when she's poorly. She's also still vomiting here and there but is mainly bile at this point as there's nothing to throw up. She's eaten next to nothing since Saturday evening, and milk and water consumption has dropped over last couple of days to maybe 4-5 oz combined a day compared to probably 15-20oz combined liquids a day.
She wasn't pooing regularly last few days (usually goes 3 times a day and dropped to nothing except a follow through fart smear). She had an explosive poo today with wet smelly farts all day.
We did see GP yesterday who diagnosed either viral rash or hand foot and mouth however I feel the spots elsewhere might not ring true with HFM? The spots on her face are now clumping together into big patches of red and when not freshly washed it's quite crusty.
Behaviour wise, she's been awful. Very upset. Crying for long periods. Not sleeping (has slept though the night since 6 months). She has, on 2 occasions, been in hospital with 4 infections and on IV antibiotics for 3 days and separately had pneumonia and croup which led to a hospital stay with antibiotics and steroids and x rays. She is a very smiley baby. She was seriously ill in the past and was still flirting with the nurses, giggling, smiling and going "weeeeee" when they pushed us down the hallway in the wheelchair. This time? She's miserable. She's not my usual baby. It's heart breaking to watch.
She's 16 months old and there has been talk about her have an immune deficiency by hospital consultants but currently GP disagrees and won't refer her.
Thank you