Help! Rash across ribs

[kymmyk13]

my dd6 woke up with a rash across her ribs. DH made me think I was crazy and said it was from her laying on it. I just called daycare to see if it is still there and it is, she complained on the left side when they touched it and they said it may be a little swollen. I can't get my doctor's office on the phone. Any suggestions as to what it is.

 

[rie'smom]

Keep calling your doctor or take her to an urgent care center. I have no clue what it might be.
It it flat or raised?
Is it blistered?
Does she have fever?
Any other aches?
coughing?
Find out the answers to these before you go to the clinic or call your doc.

 

[phorsenuf]

Shingles? Has she had the chicken pox?

 

[gillep]

I agree with the pp it sounds like shingles to me

 

[JessicaR]

Not very common in children, but it does sound like shingles. If she has had chicken pox already and maybe has a weakened immune system guess it could be.

http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site1021/mainpageS1021P0.html

Hope she is doing better!

 

[poohfriend77]

My friend's DD7 recently had shingles. No symptoms other than the rash, and not really painful like it is for adults. Her doc said now that kids are vaccinated and don't actually get chicken pox, it is more common to see shingles at younger ages.

My other thought was scarlet fever. I think it is related to strep?

I hope she's OK!

 

[WDWBarb]

DD had shingles when she was 10 or 11. It started on her back and then came across her ribs. They say it's more common in children than ever before.

 

[PatsGirl]

I've been hearing about alot of kids getting shingles lately and I've had them myself a few years back. I wonder if the chicken pox vaccine is a good thing?

 

[rie'smom]

Poor baby, I hope it isn't shingles-that hurts!!!!!

 

[WDWBarb]

I've been hearing about alot of kids getting shingles lately and I've had them myself a few years back. I wonder if the chicken pox vaccine is a good thing?

DD had the Chicken Pox before the vaccine was widely available and she still got shingles. I found out years later that she had an auto-immune disease, probably making her more susceptible to conditions like shingles. I've often wondered if the same thing would have happened had she been able to be vacccinated.

 

[rie'smom]

DD had the Chicken Pox before the vaccine was widely available and she still got shingles. I found out years later that she had an auto-immune disease, probably making her more susceptible to conditions like shingles. I've often wondered if the same thing would have happened had she been able to be vacccinated.

If you have never had chicken pox, you cannot get shingles. Shingles is a re-emergence of the chickenpox, years later.

Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus that causes chickenpox. After you have had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in your nerve roots and remains inactive until, in some people, it flares up again. When the virus becomes active again, you get shingles instead of chickenpox.

The chicken pox vaccine is a live live attenuated vaccine. This means the live, disease-producing virus was modified, or weakened. However, I wonder since the chicken pox cases have declined but the shingles cases in kids have risen could the chicken pox vaccine be causing some of the shingles cases by introducing the Varicella-zoster virus into children where it did not exist before.

 

[kacaju]

My first thought was shingles. My dd11 had then last summer. She had a very mild case of Chicken pox when she was 6 months old ( I only knew she had them because her sister had a full case of CP, and she got them within the 3 week period)
I did have her blood titer taken 2 years ago and it showed she was immune to CP. Last summer she broke out in this rash on one side of her stomach and it was cultured and sure enough, it was shingles!!

 

[kymmyk13]

OP here, sorry couldn't get back on until she went to bed. This morning i twas more splochy then tonight. She has had the chicken pox vac. I am taking her to the doc tomorrow and I hope it is just something simple. maybe allergeic to something.

 

[WDWBarb]

Any update, OP? How is DD?

 

[bellebud]

yes, wondering how she is...

 

[linnylu]

My DS had this and it was from strep.

Hopefully you know now what it is.