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Scarlet fever

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Lcw29 · 16/12/2022 07:12

Took my son to the doctor yesterday and was told he has scarlet fever. I just wondered if the rash can fade on and off? Yesterday was bad but this morning it's more faded. This happened yesterday morning too.

I'm picking up antibiotics later.

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Realitea · 16/12/2022 19:21

My daughter had this a week ago and the rash was there one day and gone the next. They did a swab to check it definitely was scarlet fever as she had the other symptoms too. Did your Gp do a swab?

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Lcw29 · 16/12/2022 22:40

Thanks for the reply. They didn't do a swab no. My surgery has been a nightmare. Been told to ring around for antibiotics as they're having stock problems. Bit annoyed at the receptionists attitude tbh.

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Realitea · 17/12/2022 08:43

They don’t sound very helpful or on the ball with this. The right antibiotics are hard to find and we had to have our prescription changed to a different penicillin as nothing was in stock. That took another day of waiting which was tense!
If you’ve got antibiotics now I wouldn’t bother with a swab anyway but the swabs can be bought online.

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Lcw29 · 17/12/2022 12:34

Still have no medicine so am on hold with 111. He's allergic to penicillin so it's a tricky one. Just got to wait and hope he's OK without for now.

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Lcw29 · 17/12/2022 19:10

So 111 sent me ringing further afield . Still no luck and tonight the rash is coming back. Also my tongue hurts and throat a bit too. Also looks a bit odd. Is this strawberry tongue? Sorry its gross

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