Staph?
I worked on a burn unit for a year - these aren’t a typical burn. Contact allergy or reaction? Bug bite reaction? Some of both? I’ve never seen cigarette burns, but the two circular ones look more like bug or spider bites.
Take the child to a clinic and have it documented and treated. (For your own protection as well as the child)Then call your lawyer for advice..... We had to have transfers made at the police station with an inspection before heading home because of similar problems.
Fire Ants in your area?
Obviously you’re very concerned or you would not have posted about it, go with your instinct and take him to the doctor. It sounds as if your son is not getting the proper attention when he’s with your wife.
I have a son with DS, with very little communication, so I know how hard it can be trying to figure out what’s going on.
They look like a drip injury, like dripping hot water, candle wax, or some other hot liquid. I may be wrong though, also are these burns on an area that would normally not be burnt? Palm side of forearm, backs of the legs?
Poison ivy.
Do the adults that were there have any insight?
Something to cause such burn wounds would certainly cause the kid to cry loudly when it happened. Do they have any recollection of it happening? They don’t appear to be cigarette burns, but anyone who may be halfway looking after the kid should know what caused it.
My wife would kill me if I didn’t know what happened to cause something like this with one of our kids while I was watching them. Those appear to be some pretty serious burns, and there’s more than one.
By the way, he was probably having lots of fun when he got it, and you seem as though you need a drink or a psychiatrist.
contact allergy or staph...if they turn blue...then staph
don’t waste your time with old antibiotics...most staph nowadays is used to the old ones
maybe old Bactrim but if not that then the newfangled Miacins...
poor feller
You need to call the police and/or Social Services and let them get to the bottom of what is happening when he is with his mother....
I’m sorry some folks are like this. It looks like a reaction to something or it could be early staph.
Doesn’t look like a burn or intentional.
Hard to say...but it looks nothing like the posion ivy my number 4 has right now in the healing stage.
if it bothers him try benzocaine cream or foille if they still make it...it was the cats pajamas for blisters in my day but smelled funny...no one here probably even remembers it
FRiend, I am a nurse with two kids of my own.
1) Take him to a MD. Better safe than sorry.
2) The two, non-blistered lesions appear to be staph. No way to know for sure without a culture.
3) The elongated, clear fluid blister: not at all sure but I am betting against a burn - no characteristic redness aound the site that i can see. Often, kids will pick up a viral infection from some environemntal factor (soap, laundry powder, etc.) that can lead to a localized blister.
4) TAKE HIM TO A DOCTOR! The two staph-looking places will get worse w/o treatment!
I’m sorry for your son’s blisters. They look uncomfortable, even if he can’t tell you what causes them. I hope it turns out to be something easily treatable.
About 15% of the population does not react to poison ivy, and I seem to be in that category, so I have no idea what poison ivy rash/blisters look like. However, addressing the issue about “one thing after another” with your ex: If you don’t already have one, you need to start a journal chronicling your son’s health whenever you hand him over to her, and then again when you get him back. Make complete notes and put down dates, and also take pics of anything like the blisters. You might want to get a friend to witness and sign it when you are chronicling injuries that he has when he returns to you.
Hopefully, someday you will end up with a totally useless diary of all his little problems, and nothing will ever come of it. BUT if he ever gets some big injury (God forbid) or it simply becomes obvious to you that he is not safe in his mom’s care, you will have some ammunition when you go to court about it. Good luck!!!
Looks like Rubella, aka German Measles.
First thing always with burns — irrespective of source or cause — is to get them properly medically treated. Do not risk infection because infection is no joke.
Speculating on the cause of the burn? I’m not sure that’s too helpful — the pictures could depict burns from a thousand different sources. Main thing is to get it treated immediately.
I’d avoid attributing lurid explanations to this: it could be as simple as an electric blanket malfunctioning, or something similar. Just get it treated.
Has he ever had chemo? I hope not but if he is being treated for cancer it could be a reaction by the chemo attacking mosquito bites etc. My wife would get a mosquito bite and it would blister like that. If not I would say it is a spider bite.
I'd be curious to hear from someone with a medical background here.
There is an absence of reddening (usually a thermal burn will have a corona of less severe burn) which seems to indicate it was not a heat-induced blister. The absence of more sidespread reddening also indicates that it is not likely to be a chemical toxin either, as that, too, has a corona of less affected tissue where the toxin is diluted in the tissue.
As for the sores, do the blisters itch? Is he scratching them? That could account for the scabs. If so, poison ivy seems likely.
If it is poison ivy, and the blisters burst, make sure the area is promptly washed in soap and water or the blisters will likely spread to wherever the juice from inside the blisters made skin contact (just a guess that he is sensitive, from the apparent size of the blisters).
I have had severe poison ivy--and been able to peel sheets of skin from knee to instep from the continuous blister clusters. Thankfully, I seem to have outgrown the sensitivity.
While the blisters look painful, they are not so much painful as aggravating from the persistent and often intense itching. Scratching the blisters and touching another area will spread the problem.
Some precautions for the future, if this is indeed poison ivy as I suspect: have him completely avoid the leaves, sap, roots, and especially smoke from burning leaves, etc. which may contain the oils from the plant. (Learn to spot the plant and teach him to.) I have known kids in my youth who walked through the downwind smoke from burning leaves who came down with incredibly extensive (and on one occasion life-threatening) blistering from poison ivy in the burn pile.
Pets can carry the oils from the plant and transfer them to children who are sensitive as well, giving the kid a nasty case of poison ivy, even though they did not come into direct contact with the plants.
As an adult, I would put the blisters (usually on my hands) under hot water--as hot as I could stand, to get the blisters to open up (which actually felt good--same sensation as scratching/rubbing, without the direct skin damage), then coat them liberally with rubbing alcohol (which hurt like Hell--not for a little boy, and also a fire hazard), but the blisters usually dried up after a couple of treatments.
Some people respond to using calamine lotion, but it never did much for me.
Coating the skin in the immediate vicinity of the blisters with soft soap helped keep the blisters from spreading when they weeped or popped, and a 4X4 or 2X2 gauze pad, taped lightly over the area (or a gauze wrap around an affected limb) absorbed the juice from the blisters, made it difficult to scratch, and helped cut down on the spread.
If you are sensitive, wear vinyl or latex gloves to treat it, and throw them away every time and wash up with soap and water thoroughly.
Ordinary laundering will take care of clothing, bedding, etc, but if you are sensitive to poison ivy, wear gloves when handling soiled clothing, etc. which may have come into contact with the plants or blisters on someone affected by them, or you might catch it from that.
No speculation here, as far as that goes, my mother was very sensitive to poison ivy as well.
I hope this helps, and pray the young man is better soon.
First, take him to the doctor.
Second, let the doctor determine what they are.
Third, you probably will need intervention.
Those burns need to be documented and it is important that it’s noted they came from his stay with his mother.
Do it as soon as you can, now would be good.