Hi everyone. I’m baffled and asking the mums of mumsnet if they have any clues what this is on my sons face? He’s 15 months old, never had any allergies (that we know of yet anyway), never had any skin issues apart from some dribble rash on his chest as when he was a baby he was a MASSIVE drooler.
To me it looks exactly how baby acne does, he never had this either but his older brother did. I would say we noticed it maybe 4/5 days a go and it just seems to get intense at different moments, worse possibly when he’s warm or just had a breastfeed (so the side he laid on gets worse).
I went to the doctors with him yesterday because 2 days a go he did come down with a bit of a bug (runny nose, threw up a few times, gone completely off his food, very lethargic, high temp) and they gave him antibiotics as a precaution.
Someone mentioned slapped cheek syndrome because it is also a little on his chest too (looks like the dribble rash he used to have but way more intense) but I thought the rash came after the other symptoms? This seems to have been the opposite way around. I don’t know, I’m just absolutely baffled by it.
You can see in one photo how it goes quite red and then the next minute almost gone but still visible as little pin prick spots.