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Awww wish I had grandchildren ruby… so jealous… hope the boabie gets better
Teapot
My youngest had scarlet fever about a month ago! She was ill for about 4 days until the antibiotics kicked in!
@melody wrote:
My youngest had scarlet fever about a month ago! She was ill for about 4 days until the antibiotics kicked in!
I wonder why its come back Melody? Thank goodness the antibotics still work on it. Isnt there a vacination yet?
Teapot
ah thats a shame Melody. im begginging to think his illness of last week was perhaps the start of it, and he had a delayed reaction to the rash. I googled it and it said “2-4 days but it some cases longer. ” he had like a common cold. But my daughter mentioned his breath was stinking , i was assuming it was because he was all blocked up. Bet it was that. hope everything is okay now x
and Mrs teapot, it will happen someday…if you have children now, one of them will shock you :)Scarlet fever is part of the streptococcus group of bacteria, the same group that cause bacterial menningitus. Have you ever heard of someone with a strep throat? Well basically scarlet fever is a strep throat which spreads into the skin, usually a throat infection that has gone septic. It can cause serious complications but penicillin usually sorts it.
Bloody hell I thought Scarlet fever was long gone, I had SF when I was 10years old and was in hospital for weeks, over christmas and no visitors allowed used to have to talk to my mother at the other side of the hospital window, all my school books were burned and my christmas presents never came home with me
one thing stays in my mind though, a wee lad 2 beds down used to poo under another lassies bed so she got the blame :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: funny the things you remember.looks like its back with a vengeance toodles.. in my grandsons case not a severe strain, even though he looks like a wee scubby boy with it peeling. I remember having it more than once and the doctor calling it ” scarletina”,, i found out only a few years ago that this didnt exist and was a name given by doctors that were not sure.
aye, years ago it was a killer.. I went to see him at teatime,, i await the rash ffs ;) i made sure i washed my hands and was kissing him like a less favoured auntie at xmas.. hehe poor wee thing.:lol: :lol: so you gave the wee fella the lipstick kiss :roll: :roll: the one that used to be on the tele.
aye, air kissing like a pair o luvvie dahrilngs :)
Hi Ruby – hope yout grandson gets better soon.
On another note but slightly relevant, my nephew WAS NOT given a TB vaccine at school.
It is no longer compulsory for children from certain ethnic backgrounds.Now he has quite a varied ethnic background but he did not qualify – the vaccination is only given those considered to be from “high risk” ethinic backgrounds such as from certain african or asian countries.
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/BCG-Immunisation.htm
I didn’t realise that TB was so selective and racist! Is my nephew naturally protected from TB because he is white British? :shock:
Now I’m no expert here but surely this is leaving my nephew and others like him open to catching TB in the future – either from within the UK or if they visit a country with a high rate?
Then in turn, they infect others who have not been innoculated…
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