here I am again - mystery spots......

[Quadrophenia]

I have posted about this before, but here I am again, still no nearer to knowing what these are. Am hoping it sounds familiar to someone.
My dd aged almost 8 every so often gets some very strange spots. Sometimes they are singular and sometimes a cluster, she can go for months and months without any, they come and go within a couple of weeks.
They start off as a small pimple with a tiny black dot in the middle, turn to a white head, often the skin then breaks and a large area becomes infected big red mark around etc. then they become smaller and go leaving a purple scar. they are very, very painful and have so far only affected the thigh and torso.
Doctors so far have diagnosed

infected chicken pox
repeated chicken pox
molloscullum (sp?)
exczema
boils

and the latest today we were told by a nurse they are bites, they are not bites I'm almost certain,. besides which we have no animals, you can also see them under the skin coming up so not charecterisitc of bites. They are incredibly painful my dd and she has missed a fair bit of school because of this as sometimes they turn huge.

Does anybody at all ahve any idea what these can be and would you persist in finding an answer.

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they come up to quickly to be ingrowing hairs, am sure its not molluscum my friend's ds has it and its nothing like it. Am goign to upload some pics onto my rpofile, bearing in mind these all appeared today

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It's a bit hard to see, but I can see why the nurse thinks it's a bite. It's very possible to have very nasty reactions to bites.

bed bugs? You can google for photos. Apparently they can often be transferred to a house from suitcases after going on holiday. (which is why you shouldn't keep suitcases under the bed).

Anyway, just a guess, could be way off the mark.

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that one does look a bit like abite but the cluster really doesn't, very pimply.

have seen many different doctors with this, mainly because we have 9 different gp's at our surgery. they all give a different explanation, never bites before.

There is a condition that causes repeated things like this, hydro something, it affects the sweat glands I think. Will google it for you.

dd aslo has raised gland so infection things makes sense. Have looked at bed bugs belgo but a very different kind of rash its wierd how she has it periodically.

could be a reaction to an infection, especially with the swollen gland, in which case she really needs a diagnosis and treatment.

Here you go

It might not be this but you never know!

thanks flight

That looks interesting Flight. Nasty photos of that disease if you google images.

Actually that is usually adults. I'm not sure, I'd love to diagnose this for you.

There must be a consultant dermatologist you could be referred to if you kept on at your GP. Especially if it is causing her pain

Flight that doesn sound very like it, the intial description is it almost to a t. doesn't sound like much is known about it, last time she had one on her bottom so big she couldn't sit down it was so painful.

Belgo, someone on here was talking about it a few months ago, they were a sufferer I think.

I am too much of a wuss to google images

the pictures look a lot more severe than my dd's spots.

think i'm going to have to take her back to gp, problem is I don't have any faith that I'll find any answers. I have just re,membered she has also been diagnosed as it being impetigo, counting up that means i have taken her to the gp at least 7 times with this. If they were just spots that weren't so painful i wouldn't worry so much but they can grow really big and do make her terribly unhappy

have just read that hs can be found in children who have early onset puberty, i queried this with my daughter on here just before christmas as it became appatrent that she is suffering from body odour. I really hope it isn't hs though

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pictures are slightly clearer on my phtotbucket, very difficult though to capture spots on camera

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I think I may push for a referal yorkshirepudding, as all these gp's have different diagnosis its hard to know who if any of them are right. I am going to continue to take pics as they often get alot worse before they get better, she was going to have a supposed boil lanced not so long back but it burst on its own.

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Oh Quad

Well let's hope you and she get some specialist advice soonest.

Fwiw, I suspect my long term partner at one stage had this - he used to get boils etc frequently, all over - it didn't bother him an awful lot and it never bothered me, so it can be lived with. He never said what he thought it was, I wondered about diabetes before I heard about HS.

Either way it doesn't have to rule her life and good luck getting something done x

thanks

anybody else heard of hs or have any other ideas as to what these may be TIA