I am so stupid sometimes.
Jan. 29th, 2013 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyOblivious, anyway.
I'm sure I'll laugh later. Maybe.
Ana and Eva got mildly itchy late last week, but Eva's itchiness went away and Ana's didn't. Ana has been out of school a lot this month with one minor issue and another, so since she had no rash or fever we sent her in anyway. Spoke to the school nurse and she concurred that Ana was probably just having some contact allergy or something and that lotion should help.
But Ana was so itchy that I kept checking her for a rash. Today, I picked her up from school and she was a little clammy, still no rash. It had been unseasonably warm for her heavy coat, so I took her to swimming anyway, albeit a little uneasily. And at swimming I saw the rash... Well, sorta a rash. Just a little nonred bumpiness. It nagged at my mind, and then I could hit myself when I remembered.
Last year, Ana had a rash just like this, no other symptoms, and we took her to the doctor and found out it was strep. She had, apparently, gone through an entire cycle of strep with no symptoms until the very end. This time she had a few symptoms, but not many, but I'm pretty sure that it's the same thing. That also explains what cleared up Eva's itchiness like that - it stopped after her toothache, when the dentist put her on antibiotics for the infection. But the same antibiotics will kill strep too.
I called Jenn and presented the facts with an air of "look how brilliant I am", but the truth is that I missed the facts for an embarrassingly long time. We will be seeing the doctor tomorrow, and if I am wrong about this I will positively eat my hat. I'm not, though - the sandpaper rash is much stronger now and pretty distinctive.
I'm sure I'll laugh later. Maybe.
Ana and Eva got mildly itchy late last week, but Eva's itchiness went away and Ana's didn't. Ana has been out of school a lot this month with one minor issue and another, so since she had no rash or fever we sent her in anyway. Spoke to the school nurse and she concurred that Ana was probably just having some contact allergy or something and that lotion should help.
But Ana was so itchy that I kept checking her for a rash. Today, I picked her up from school and she was a little clammy, still no rash. It had been unseasonably warm for her heavy coat, so I took her to swimming anyway, albeit a little uneasily. And at swimming I saw the rash... Well, sorta a rash. Just a little nonred bumpiness. It nagged at my mind, and then I could hit myself when I remembered.
Last year, Ana had a rash just like this, no other symptoms, and we took her to the doctor and found out it was strep. She had, apparently, gone through an entire cycle of strep with no symptoms until the very end. This time she had a few symptoms, but not many, but I'm pretty sure that it's the same thing. That also explains what cleared up Eva's itchiness like that - it stopped after her toothache, when the dentist put her on antibiotics for the infection. But the same antibiotics will kill strep too.
I called Jenn and presented the facts with an air of "look how brilliant I am", but the truth is that I missed the facts for an embarrassingly long time. We will be seeing the doctor tomorrow, and if I am wrong about this I will positively eat my hat. I'm not, though - the sandpaper rash is much stronger now and pretty distinctive.
