Red spots on baby's skin

My recently turned 1 DS has red spots on his belly, sides, some near his
armpits, a few on his chin area, and a few on his legs. They aren't filled
with anything nor are they raised. He has no other symptoms. He's eating
and drinking well and has no fever. What I've done recently is: 1)
switched from Baby All to All Free and Clear (I think that's what it's
called) for the kids clothes. 2) started DS on whole milk this past
Monday. He's been on formula made with nonfat milk and still is as I'm
slowly weaning him off the bottle. 3) on his birthday Sunday, he had a
little bit of a brownie cake that we got for him. That's really the only
different food he's had recently. He normally gets rice cereal and baby
food. The spots appeared yesterday morning.

Could the spots be from the detergent, brownie, or whole milk or could it be
bacterial (chickenpox)?

Thanks for any input.

ChitaShines wrote:
My recently turned 1 DS has red spots on his belly, sides, some near his
armpits, a few on his chin area, and a few on his legs. They aren't filled
with anything nor are they raised. He has no other symptoms. He's eating
and drinking well and has no fever. What I've done recently is: 1)
switched from Baby All to All Free and Clear (I think that's what it's
called) for the kids clothes. 2) started DS on whole milk this past
Monday. He's been on formula made with nonfat milk and still is as I'm
slowly weaning him off the bottle. 3) on his birthday Sunday, he had a
little bit of a brownie cake that we got for him. That's really the only
different food he's had recently. He normally gets rice cereal and baby
food. The spots appeared yesterday morning.

Could the spots be from the detergent, brownie, or whole milk or could it be
bacterial (chickenpox)?

Chicken pox is viral, not bacterial. It doesn't sound like chickenpox.
The lesions are filled with pus and raised. Plus they don't come all at
once, but over a day or two. Your kid would be miserable.

It could be bacterial.

However, we haven't seen your kid. We can tell if it is related to
allergies or other reactions to food or detergent.

My suggestion is that you call your doctor and ask him or her.

Your child should have his 1 year exam soon, if he hasn't had it. You
might be able to kill two birds with one stone if he hasn't had it yet.

Jeff

Thanks for any input.

Heat rash? Is it hot where you are?
--
Sue

"ChitaShines" wrote in message
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My recently turned 1 DS has red spots on his belly, sides, some near his
armpits, a few on his chin area, and a few on his legs. They aren't
filled with anything nor are they raised. He has no other symptoms. He's
eating and drinking well and has no fever. What I've done recently is:
1) switched from Baby All to All Free and Clear (I think that's what it's
called) for the kids clothes. 2) started DS on whole milk this past
Monday. He's been on formula made with nonfat milk and still is as I'm
slowly weaning him off the bottle. 3) on his birthday Sunday, he had a
little bit of a brownie cake that we got for him. That's really the only
different food he's had recently. He normally gets rice cereal and baby
food. The spots appeared yesterday morning.

Could the spots be from the detergent, brownie, or whole milk or could it
be bacterial (chickenpox)?

Thanks for any input.

On Jul 25, 5:04 pm, "ChitaShines" wrote:
My recently turned 1 DS has red spots on his belly, sides, some near his
armpits, a few on his chin area, and a few on his legs. They aren't filled
with anything nor are they raised. He has no other symptoms. He's eating
and drinking well and has no fever. What I've done recently is: 1)
switched from Baby All to All Free and Clear (I think that's what it's
called) for the kids clothes. 2) started DS on whole milk this past
Monday. He's been on formula made with nonfat milk and still is as I'm
slowly weaning him off the bottle. 3) on his birthday Sunday, he had a
little bit of a brownie cake that we got for him. That's really the only
different food he's had recently. He normally gets rice cereal and baby
food. The spots appeared yesterday morning.

Could the spots be from the detergent, brownie, or whole milk or could it be
bacterial (chickenpox)?

Thanks for any input.

Maybe roseola or hand-foot-and-mouth? Might be allergen. Go to the
doc.

Vickie

"Jeff" wrote in message
news:yNRpi.7199$2c7.6039@trnddc06...
Your child should have his 1 year exam soon, if he hasn't had it. You
might be able to kill two birds with one stone if he hasn't had it yet.



(Remember that if you go in for a well-child visit they will not address
illnesses due to billing issues with many insurance companies, so schedule a
sick child appointment or, better yet, ask the scheduler if there is any
issue combining purposes. I know that when I was on an HMO, and there were
several, none of them would allow a combo visit like that. You *had* to
have two appointments to accomplish those goals.)

-Aula

(Remember that if you go in for a well-child visit they will not address
illnesses due to billing issues with many insurance companies, so schedule a
sick child appointment or, better yet, ask the scheduler if there is any
issue combining purposes. I know that when I was on an HMO, and there were
several, none of them would allow a combo visit like that. You *had* to
have two appointments to accomplish those goals.)

How ridiculous! I mean if you go in and don't mention the rash at all
but the doctor notices it, isn't that part of the whole point of having
a well child visit, so the doctor can pick up things that someone
without medical training might not spot and also so the parent has a
chance to raise any concerns they may not feel worth making an
appointment for.

I hate this whole thing of telling anyone and everyone what your
appointment is for, I don't mind when I need to see a specialist saying
something like "it's about my left knee", makes sense to do that to
avoid wasting anyones time, but when I need to see my primary care
provider I consider it an intrusion of privacy to be asked. When I had
postnatal depression, my husband made me a doctors appointment and took
me in, but we didn't have to say anything to the receptionist, or see a
nurse, it was just straight into the doctor and a week later when I had
the postnatal check, which in our surgery was scheduled as a double
appointment with the nurse and the doctor coming in for half of it, he
was very discreet and just told me when to make another appointment with
him. Now, if something like this were to occur again I'd find it
incredibly difficult, each time to have to deal with the scheduler, then
the nurse etc. even without this, each time it can be a struggle, I take
meds for a condition no nurse I've spoken to has even heard of and for
another than is often badly understood and I continually have to justify
why I'm on the meds that I'm on. It feels completely nuts having to sign
privacy policies all the time when in reality it never feels very private.

Cheers
Anne

PS to the OP, with any new skin thing other than baby acne, I'd take a
child to the doctor, the differences are so subtle that it's difficult
to self diagnose, I mean you could get pictures of different rashes, but
they can present subtle differently and only someone properly trained
knows which are important diagnostic features and which are variations -
I just hope it's nothing like what happened to our DD, at about 9months
she broke out in a rash where the spots looked like chicken pox at a
certain stage, but the presentation wasn't chicken pox at all, no doctor
in the practice had seen anything like it, we ended up having to coat
her in a thick steroid ointment, but at least it did clear up and has
never reoccured.

"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
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How ridiculous! I mean if you go in and don't mention the rash at all but
the doctor notices it, isn't that part of the whole point of having a well
child visit, so the doctor can pick up things that someone without medical
training might not spot and also so the parent has a chance to raise any
concerns they may not feel worth making an appointment for.

I hate this whole thing of telling anyone and everyone what your
appointment is for, I don't mind when I need to see a specialist saying
something like "it's about my left knee", makes sense to do that to avoid
wasting anyones time, but when I need to see my primary care provider I
consider it an intrusion of privacy to be asked.

While I unerstand that I also understand that reason that has been stated to
me by the doc's receptionists: they need to be able to figure out how long
your appointment needs to be. A well-child checkup, for example, usually
takes under fifteen minutes. An exam of emerging symptoms could potentially
take longer.

Now, one does not need to go into lengthy explanations. Simply saying the
baby has a rash would be sufficient afaik. Then, there is the insurer
rules, which is a whole different issue and makes me steam. Why the doc
cannot bill the visit under both well-child check up code and the one for
whatever the skin irritation is is beyond me, but they have to bill by code
and you cannot have more than one code. Argh! But that is just US HMO's
[and maybe PPO's and major medical plans now for all I know]. Perhaps the
OP isn't subject to that type of lunacy.

When I had postnatal depression, my husband made me a doctors appointment
and took me in, but we didn't have to say anything to the receptionist, or
see a nurse, it was just straight into the doctor and a week later when I
had the postnatal check, which in our surgery was scheduled as a double
appointment with the nurse and the doctor coming in for half of it, he was
very discreet and just told me when to make another appointment with him.
Now, if something like this were to occur again I'd find it incredibly
difficult, each time to have to deal with the scheduler, then the nurse
etc. even without this, each time it can be a struggle, I take meds for a
condition no nurse I've spoken to has even heard of and for another than is
often badly understood and I continually have to justify why I'm on the
meds that I'm on. It feels completely nuts having to sign privacy policies
all the time when in reality it never feels very private.


I'm glad you persevered and got the treatment you needed. It is so sad that
so many simply do not understand that depression, in most forms, is a purely
chemical/physical issue and is not 'all in their head' situation that could
be fixed if only the sufferer were to apply themselves to that goal. Um,
right. On the issue of follow up appointments I've not know that a reason
must be stated to the scheduler, only for the first appointment. That
helps, but the whole original issue drives me up a wall.

-Aula

"Aula" wrote in
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"Jeff" wrote in message
news:yNRpi.7199$2c7.6039@trnddc06...
Your child should have his 1 year exam soon, if he hasn't
had it. You might be able to kill two birds with one stone
if he hasn't had it yet.

(Remember that if you go in for a well-child visit they
will not address illnesses due to billing issues with many
insurance companies, so schedule a sick child appointment
or, better yet, ask the scheduler if there is any issue
combining purposes. I know that when I was on an HMO, and
there were several, none of them would allow a combo visit
like that. You *had* to have two appointments to
accomplish those goals.)

there are a few things that make me glad i do not have health
insurance...
the first is that i can schedule Boo's annual well visit
whenever it's convenient to *me*, instead of the over one year
and one day since the last visit the insurance co. insists on
(how stupidly arbitrary).
the second is being able to address more than one issue at a
time. when i last had insurance, i happened to have a UTI
*and* a broken metatarsal at the same time. would they treat
both? oh no! can't do that! which did i want treated? i made
the mistake of going for the UTI, which they misdiagnosed (it
was actually a bladder infection), & gave me the wrong
medicines for twice, well, the first was entirely wrong the
second was a wrong dosage (nothing like dragging one of those
out). they couldn't manage to fit in the metatarsal injury for
another 2 weeks... at which point the bone is fused again
anyway.
now, i can go in with a list of things & the doctor will deal
with all of them. *and* i get a discount because they don't
have to deal with an insurance claim (*and* i'm not shelling
out $1200/month for insurance)
lee

I've never had that problem so it's not all insurances. When I go for a
check up, we address all issues at the time. I also don't have to tell
multiple people why I am there either.
--
Sue

"enigma" wrote in message
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"Aula" wrote in
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"Jeff" wrote in message
news:yNRpi.7199$2c7.6039@trnddc06...
Your child should have his 1 year exam soon, if he hasn't
had it. You might be able to kill two birds with one stone
if he hasn't had it yet.

(Remember that if you go in for a well-child visit they
will not address illnesses due to billing issues with many
insurance companies, so schedule a sick child appointment
or, better yet, ask the scheduler if there is any issue
combining purposes. I know that when I was on an HMO, and
there were several, none of them would allow a combo visit
like that. You *had* to have two appointments to
accomplish those goals.)

there are a few things that make me glad i do not have health
insurance...
the first is that i can schedule Boo's annual well visit
whenever it's convenient to *me*, instead of the over one year
and one day since the last visit the insurance co. insists on
(how stupidly arbitrary).
the second is being able to address more than one issue at a
time. when i last had insurance, i happened to have a UTI
*and* a broken metatarsal at the same time. would they treat
both? oh no! can't do that! which did i want treated? i made
the mistake of going for the UTI, which they misdiagnosed (it
was actually a bladder infection), & gave me the wrong
medicines for twice, well, the first was entirely wrong the
second was a wrong dosage (nothing like dragging one of those
out). they couldn't manage to fit in the metatarsal injury for
another 2 weeks... at which point the bone is fused again
anyway.
now, i can go in with a list of things & the doctor will deal
with all of them. *and* i get a discount because they don't
have to deal with an insurance claim (*and* i'm not shelling
out $1200/month for insurance)
lee

Sue wrote:
I've never had that problem so it's not all insurances. When I go for a
check up, we address all issues at the time. I also don't have to tell
multiple people why I am there either.

I agree. I do have to tell what sorts of things I
need an appointment for when booking the appointment, but
that seems eminently reasonable to me. How else are they
to know how long to book the appointment for? If I need
to address multiple issues or multiple kids, they'll just
book multiple appointment slots. That might mean that I
have to wait a little longer for a non-emergency appointment
so that I can get multiple adjacent appointment slots, or
if there's something urgent but no adjacent slots open
maybe I have to book one appointment immediately for the
urgent need and another appointment later for the non-urgent
need, but that seems reasonable to me as well.

Best wishes,
Ericka