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    Posted: 01 November 2008 at 9:18am
Daniel has woken up with this rash..


Sorry the photo isn't in focus. So hard to get a photo of him sitting still lol..

It's on his back, tummy, little on his forehead and starting to appear in the nappy area..

Does that look like measles? Or if not, what?

He's got tonsillitus and is on antibiotics. It's not a reaction to the drugs as he's had this antib before a couple of times with no reaction. He's not unhappy. He's tired but that is from waking in the night with a sore throat I expect.
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Dont measles start with a sore throat etc...maybe its not tonsilitis?
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He's had his MMR jab so I would have thought he couldn't get it

I've never had it so don't really know much about it
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I would say its a virus. Lauren had a similar rash a few months back and she was covered from head to toe. I took her back to the docs 3 times as I was so convinced it was measles.

The doctor assured me it was a virus that would pass. It took about a week for the rash to go, but she was fine, she just looked awful!

It could possibly be a virus too, so then if it is its nothing to worry about. Maybe go to the docs just to get it checked out.

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It could be a reaction as they don't always come out in the first dose. your body recognises the antibiotics on subsequesnt doses and creates the reaction. Worth checking with a Doc as hard to tell from photo and could be dozens of things
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It looks just like a viral rash to me, he may come down with a cold in the next 48 hours.
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Spencer had a few rashes like that when he was really little and each time it was just a viral rash.
I would just take him to doc to make sure, better safe than sorry and all that old jazz.

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It got really nasty looking so we did end up taking him to the docs. They believe its viral but said its quite a strange looking one so we have to just watch and see if it changes. The slightest hint of a change and he has to go straight back
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