As some of you are aware, my son hasnt been very well the last couple of days.
He woke up during the night on Thursday complaining of a sore throat and headache and after a couple more attempts at trying to make me night nurse he went back to bed.
Got up for school as normal on Friday morning and being the fantastic mother that I am, I shoved a couple of paracetamol down his neck and told him to clear orf.. LOL
9am, I get a call from the school nurse saying that he was throwing up violently (sorry to those that are eating
) and to come and get him.
Basically, he didnt stop being sick for the whole day, but at around lunchtime, he started to come out with all these spots. I thought it might be measles or something and was monitoring the rest of his body, when my partner mentioned "the glass test". We rolled the cold glass across his boiling hot face (poor sod) and the rash was still there. So I immediately phoned the doctors, and was told by the receptionist that if I had called earlier, then I could have had an appointment!!!
I explained that its not usual to phone for a dr when your 15yo is being sick, but the fact that he had this rash concerned me. 20 minutes on hold and I was told that the doctor would call me back.
In the meantime I typed the symptoms into google to be met with "sickness rash" - apparently when you are violently sick or coughing heavily, it produces this rash caused by the blood vessels being raised to the surface, sometimes bursting, causing a purpleish rash (exactly what he had).
The doctor called and asked some questions about his fitness (drowsiness, rash on rest of body etc) and told me just the same - that it was indeed a "sickness rash". Just cool him down with paracetamol (when he can keep it down) sips of water and breadsticks or biscuits - just as I was doing.
As the sickness subsided, so did the rash, so it rang true (although no idea why he was so sick
)
Matt is my 4th son and the youngest and yet in all their growing up years I have never heard of "sickness rash"
Is this something new, or have they found a name for the "viral infections" that my boys had when they were young.
Just wondered if anyone else has ever come across this/heard of it before now?