A red rash on the body of a child: a disease or will it pass?

First of all, you just need to take a deep breath and try to determine the cause of the rash. It is likely that you just often put on a baby diaper, because of wearing which a problem arose, or the day before the baby ate the orange, sweets and other products that cause allergies.

But it can not be ruled out that the rash is news from some disease. Among such ailments are measles, chickenpox, rubella, scarlet fever, urticaria. Let's give you a list of the symptoms that accompany this or that disease. If you find other symptoms in parallel with the rash, then you should consult your doctor to confirm or, conversely, reject your diagnosis.

Diseases and their symptoms

Scarlet fever

In this case, the child will have a fever, the yawn will be bright red. Also, the baby will complain of a headache and sore throat. All these symptoms can be accompanied by vomiting. Literally on the first day (sometimes the second) of this condition, a small red-colored rash appears on the child's body .

Measles

This disease is transmitted by air. From the moment when the baby was infected and until the appearance of signs of the disease pass from seven to twelve days.

Symptoms of measles are often very similar to those of influenza, which at first can be somewhat confusing. So a child can complain of a headache that lasts two or three days, a liquid discharge may run from the nose, a cough, a fever will appear, and the eyes will turn red. The child most often becomes sluggish, drowsy and loses appetite.

Approximately on the third or fourth day, there are red spots on the child's body . These formations are flat, sometimes merging into very large, incomprehensible forms. These spots themselves are not itchy, but just cover the entire body for five days, and then start to go off by themselves. Parallel with their disappearance, the temperature also decreases. And if there are no complications in the child, the illness stops.

Hives

The disease manifests itself as follows. First, there are red spots on the body in the child, similar to blisters. They can appear all over the body, and then after a few hours or several days pass by themselves. The spots have a diameter of about one to two centimeters. Blisters can be either red or white. Regardless of the color, they are very itchy. There are quite a few reasons for urticaria. It can be a viral infection, and an allergic reaction to everything that surrounds the child (from food, insects, heat, etc.).

Chickenpox

It is transmitted by direct contact with the infected. But isolating the child from other children and adults is extremely difficult, because the chickenpox is most contagious before the rash appears, and this is two to three weeks of the incubation period. The main symptoms of the disease include: headache, fever. In parallel with these signs, a red rash appears on the body. At first it looks like small red spots that very quickly become bubbles, and even itchy.

Rubella

This disease is transmitted by air and its incubation period lasts from ten to 21 days. During the rubella, the child develops a red rash on the body. It has the appearance of tiny red dots, red or pink, about two or three millimeters in diameter. Some of them can merge. The rash with rubella is not itchy and it lasts for several days. In the course of spreading the skin begins to peel off.

In parallel with these symptoms, there may be swelling in the neck and skull base, nasal discharge, redness in the eye area.

Let's sum up the results

If your child has a red rash on his body, then you should think about it. Because the appearance of a rash in a child often signals any changes in the body. Do not pay attention to such signals can not. In addition to the rather innocuous diseases accompanied by a rash, there are also very serious.

Take care of your children!