Posted on 10/16/2014 11:12:00 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
I am asking Freepers for help in diagnosing the mysterious illness that doctors have failed to diagnose thus far. Our 3-year-old grandson has been sick for several days with high fever, a rash that started on his face but has now spread to his entire body, loss of appetite, and now peeling skin around his eyes, nose and mouth. His fever is minimal during the day, but starts to increase in the afternoon and gets close to 103.
He has been to the doctor several times, had a strep test that came back negative, and was taken to the local children's hospital for dehydration ($400 and all they did was give him juice and crackers). They did a blood test which was normal for white blood cell count, but said he is slightly anemic.
First they thougth he had a recurrence of fifth disease, and the hospital doctors thought he might have mono.
He is finally eating a little and will drink a little juice, but he whines and cries constantly and acts like his feet hurt. His rash is very itchy most of the time, so he scratches at it, particularly around his waist.
If you have any ideas or know of any children who have something similar, please post a reply.
He has another doctor's appointment this afternoon, so we will see if they have any better answers than they have so far.
And pray for him, if you will.
Check for Stevens Johnson syndrome. Prayers up that he doesn’t have it.
Sounds like shingles.
Took Navy doctors four days to figure it out. Then they told me the bad news: they couldn’t do anything about it.
I used to know someone whose daughter was hospitalized for scarlet fever.
Right here in the north SF bay area.
It was back in the late eighties
“Yes, Hand, foot & Mouth Disease was my first thought too. Our granddaughter had that and was hospitalized and very sick.”
I was thinking Roseola or Coxsackie
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Prayers up for your sweet grandson, your daughter/family, their docs...and you. I know how tough it is going through something like this.
Keep up posted.
In the meantime, whatever you do, keep his fever down at night by placing an icepack on his head.
Keep his brain cool at all times.
Shingles, that is what I was thinking because of the waist. It attacks a nerve in that area causing intense pain. It is very rare in young children which may be why the doctors missed it.
Prayers for your little one..God bless
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Can’t offer any ideas on what it might be but since he’s been on antibiotics, start feeding him yogurt with live cultures to get good bacteria back into his stomach which will help fight off whatever the doctors finally diagnose.
<Sounds like shingles.
<Took Navy doctors four days to figure it out. Then they told me the bad news: they couldn’t do anything about it.
Odd. My son had shingles a few years ago. The local walk-in clinic knew what it was as soon as they saw him, even though it is unusual for a young adult to get shingles. He got a script for acyclovir and things got better right away.
It sounds like the child might have scarlet fever. I had it back in the 1950’s, but I hear that kids don’t get it much today, which is why the docs may not have recognized it.
There are a variety of post-streptoccoal immune syndromes. Check out http://www.healthline.com/health/post-streptococcal-gn#Overview1.
I had the shingles 30 years ago while in the Navy. Today I see that vaccinations for it are available and, as you stated, they can give medication for it.
When I had the shingles it was very painful. I was stationed in southern Spain, it was over a 100 degrees in August/September, and I was under a great deal of stress in a new position. The situation was uncomfortable, to say the least.
Glad to see that there today exists some treatment for it.
If someone like you thinks that I’m an idiot, then I have to take that as a compliment.
swollen lymph nodes?
brucellosis
collagen vascular disease
cytomegalovirus
echo 16
gianotti-crosti syndrome
infectious hepatitis
infectious mononucleosis
kawasaki
rubella
syphilis
toxoplasmosis
no lymphadenopathy?
collagen vascular disease
drug induced eruption
enterovirus
erythema infectiosum (5th disease)
measles
rocky mountain spotted fever
roseola infantum
scarlet fever
Uncommmon:acrodynia,infectious hepatitis,rat bite fever,typhoid fever,typhus
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so....none of the doctors can solve it; no one in the “medical” community has a clue; I tell her something that WORKS and you go on the attack with me? Yeah....you’re an idiot.
Is there a change in anything that occurs in the afternoon but not during the rest of the day? Eating the same snack, drinking the same type of drink? Family member gone all day coming home? Alone with anyone at the same time of day (Munchausen by proxy?), around pets in the evening but not during the day? Clothing? Detergent? Soaps? Outdoor playtime?
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