Scarlet Fever with complications
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My 3 year old daughter was diagnosed with scarlet fever by the GP. Her symptoms were, high temperature, shivering, sore throat, swollen glands, eyes sensitive to light, no energy and a rash that begun on her neck and spread to the rest of her body and face. :oops: She was given penicillin, parocetomal and ibuprofen. After a few days the symptoms subsided and she seemed to be getting better.
Four days later, she started to get ill again and on return to the GP, she was given a course of ammoxocillin (anti-biotics). This seemed to sort things out and she returned back to normal and was better. :D
The day after she finished the course of anti-biotics, she woke up in bed and said her leg was sore, she limped around a bit but seemed fine. By tea time, her little knee had swollen up like a tennis ball. :? I took the to the A&E at the hospital and after a 4 hour wait, we were seen. The doctors did x-rays and examinations of her knee and after 2 hours we were sent by ambulance to the childrens hospital where they took blood for tests through the night and in the morning they put her to sleep so that they could drain the fluid from her knee and wash out the joint. :shock:
They sent the fluid to the labs for testing and they had the results by tea time. The swelling was the result of the scarlet fever, the infection that origionally begun in her throat, has spread to her knee somehow. I was told that if they hadnt have drained it, it could have damaged her joint permanantly. :shock: We were allowed to go home now but a nurse is coming to change her dressing next week and she has to go back to the childrens hospital the week after for a check up to make sure everything is ok. We were lucky the fluid was a straw colour, this meant the infection wasnt that bad, if it wouldve been worse, they said we would have had to stay in hospital for 4 days while they put her on anti-biotics.
She seems ok now, thank god, i hope this is the end of it. :roll:
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Good luck with your knee. xxxx
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