DS2 has had what I thought was a heat rash under his chin and folds of neck since 6 wks old and behind the ears. at his 8 wk check GP recommended E45 which made things worse and soon his neck became weepy and smelly at night. Another GP diagnosed thrush and prescribed canestan HC 1% which only helped during use. It returned with a vengeance and looked terribly sore. At my husbands request our regular GP took a swab and called us the next day to say that he has to take oral antibiotics as they have found staph aureus infection.
It looks better today as I have put fucidin HC on and he has started his medication. The web searches I have done on skin staph aureus infections are really scarey and imply that babies can die of dehydration and their skin falls off really quickly. I am really horrified to read this stuff and as we can't see GP over the weekend can't get things into perspective. I assumed it was a bit of heat rash that got mucky with sweating. Does anyone have any info or advice on this. Excuse the slightly hysterical tone, not been sleeping well.