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Petechial rash

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Whathefisgoingon · 25/02/2023 22:13

Today whilst strapping my 3 year old in to his car seat I saw he had developed red pin prick sized marks around his eye and some on his forehead.

We have Babylon so I made an appointment with a GP who went through everything and had a look at photos and confirmed it to be a petechial rash. They recommended we see out of hours as this type of rash can obviously range from nothing to life threatening.

Rang 111 who referred me to….. Boots. I did say to them that I felt we needed a doctor for this, but they assured me the Boots in question had “specially trained staff” so off we went. We were met by a confused pharmacist who basically said there was nothing he could do and it could be anything but he didn’t think A&E was necessary.

Back in the car and drove to children’s A&E anyway who in triage yet again acknowledged the rash and prepped him with numbing cream for bloods, shocked we’d been sent to Boots.

Two doctors had a look and chat and have ultimately said that if it was “one of the bad things” causing it then he wouldn’t be behaving normally, playing, running around etc like he was in the hospital, and as it is only on his face and minimal, they are not concerned. They’ve said that if it gets worse or spreads, to go back for bloods. We are to strip him every few hours to check.

We are now home and whilst it is true that my son is pretty much normal, I can tell he is slightly “off” but I’d say a bit run down and nothing more. Still eating, playing etc. I can’t help but feel that I should have pushed for bloods though.

Anyone else been through this?

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yikesanotherbooboo · 25/02/2023 22:18

DD and DN have both had Henoch Shoenlein putouts which gives a petechial read but also coughing and vomiting can cause petechia in a localised manner .

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Whathefisgoingon · 25/02/2023 22:41

@yikesanotherbooboo Thanks for the reply.

They did say it can be caused by coughing or trauma, but although he has had a mild occasional cough at the moment, I wouldn’t say it was excessive enough to cause any “strain” as such.

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yikesanotherbooboo · 25/02/2023 22:42

Henoch Schonlein Purpura!!

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yikesanotherbooboo · 25/02/2023 22:44

If he is well it seems unlikely that he has meningococcus. As far as other causes are concerned you may have to watch out.

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Whathefisgoingon · 25/02/2023 22:52

This is what it looks like.

Petechial rash
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Whathefisgoingon · 25/02/2023 22:53

@yikesanotherbooboo I just looked this up. He doesn’t have any on the rest of his body, just his face.

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JammyGeorge · 25/02/2023 23:13

We had exactly the same with DS2 when he was younger picked him up out of his cot one morning and he had the purpurica (sp?) rash on his forehead and face that didn't go under a glass. Spent a few hours in children's ward then sent home. He was fine and the rash disappeared in a couple of days.

A few days later exactly the same happened to DS1! Must of been some kind of virus. It was so weird as both of them were fine with no symptoms.

This was about 8 years ago, never happened again.

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Whathefisgoingon · 26/02/2023 08:49

@JammyGeorge Scary, isn’t it!

He was coughing all last night and was snoring a bit, so I guess it must be a virus after all.

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