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Random red marks on face

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KL92xxxx · 28/11/2021 15:26

My 20mo finished antibiotics for tonsillitis on Thursday. Seems fine in himself now. Over the last few days I’ve noticed the skin on his face is super sensitive. I picked him up from nursery on Thursday and both me and his nursery teacher noticed how bright red and sore his cheeks were/looked (she’d just wiped his face but only as she normal has done with no reaction in the past). The redness went by the time we got home and I just forgot about it.

He’s since just had random red makes appear on his face, like something has aggravated it, there’s no rhyme or reason to it, he woke up fine this morning after being in bed all night but I just ran into a shop holding him and he’s got an angry red mark where my coat was next to him. He’s just been messing with a bottle of water and where the bottle touched his face is now red. He’ll be happily playing and walk up to me and just sections of his face will be red where he’s obviously been in contact with something.

The redness doesn’t seem to bother him, he’s not itching it and it goes within 10-15 minutes. Any ideas? It seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

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PanicBuyingSprouts · 28/11/2021 20:40

Not had that one sorry. Hopefully someone will be along soon with experience.

marshatp · 29/11/2021 08:23

Amoxicillin is notorious for causing rashes

In fact it is NOT recommended for throat infections for exactly this reason.

(Of course the majority of throat infections are viral and there is no reliable way to tell bacterial from viral sore throats without doing a Rapid Antigen Test. So it is very likely no antibiotic was needed at all)

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322466#causes

marshatp · 29/11/2021 08:24

So the question is. Which antibiotic was prescribed?

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Chocolatetrifle · 29/11/2021 11:50

Is it a hives type blotchiness? Both my DS have broken out in hives after amoxicillin.

KL92xxxx · 29/11/2021 14:14

It was clarithromycin as he won’t take amoxicillin. He’s never had this before after antibiotics. It seems worse when we’re out so could be something to do with the cold weather. I have no idea but it’s very odd.

We actually went to the doctors only for them to listen to his chest post chest infection and we said he had been a little unwell still, it was there they said he had ‘full blown’ tonsillitis and they just immediately said he needed antibiotics, we never asked or pushed for them, I’d have much rather it had been viral but he’d been ill for about 5-6 days with a temperature with no signs of improvement.

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PanicBuyingSprouts · 29/11/2021 20:19

The Rash could be the tonsillitis. My DS had tonsillitis many times and had some really weird symptoms.

Hope he gets better soon Thanks

Namechangedforspooky · 29/11/2021 20:21

Are you sure it was tonsillitis? Sounds a bit like parvovirus (slapped cheek syndrome). The rash can last for a couple of weeks

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