When we were at the dermatologist on Monday they were going to submit a culture to test for the Strep B bacteria and the results were not going to be back for about 10 days (I did some research on this and it was pretty scary).
When I picked Aly up from Shannon's on Wednesday she was running a fever of 102. Well the 2nd symptom of strep b, is the fever (1 being the rash) so I was thinking that she did have it. She had seemed to break out in a secondary rash on Tuesday after we started using the cream that the dermatologist prescribed. It did work on the large red spots but seemed to breed another problem.
So I spent the drive home on the phone with the on call Dr. at snellville peds who just so happened to be the Dr. that saw her 3 weeks ago. My biggest question was what I needed to be looking for if this was Serious. I knew that going untreated, Strep B could be very dangerous and that is mostly because it goes undiagnosed because it looks so much like a regular diaper rash. The dr. said that as long as the fever was coming down with medication and she wasn't acting lethargic then we would be fine till in the morning. She was acting absolutely fine so we waited till the morning.
I called the dermatologist on Thursday morning and they didn't really want to see her again b/c they didn't deal with fevers and those kinds of symptoms so we called the Pediatrician. JV took her to see the new Dr. at Lawrenceville Peds. ( Loganville office), Dr. Magil. He really liked her. He only waiting 5 mins in the waiting room (I know right, your asking if Dr.s really do that, well in my past experiences NO, but apparently at this place they do know how to schedule appointments) and then Dr. Magil came in around 10:15 and spent about 30 mins in there answering all my crazy questions that I sent with JV.
She seems to disagree with the dermatologist about it being a yeast infection or eczema, and really disagreed with the Dr. at snellville about it being ringworm or bacterial (yes thats right we have had 4 diagnosis's on this rash) but she thinks its just a bad skin rash that has been left basically untreated b/c we have been given the wrong information. She gave JV and concoction of Neosporin, triple paste ointment and vasoline to mix together and use so we did that last night and it looked a little better this morning ( but that seems to be what this little bugger does, it gets better and then worse). I think this might work better b/c it seems to stick to her better and not come off with the first diaper change of the day.
She also saw that her right ear was red and inflamed. Her tubes are completely out and the holes have closed up so we knew this could happen. There wasn't any fluid but it was red so that could have been what the fever was. She also gave us an antibiotic to help with that.
So we are PRAYING this is the end of this crazy rash. It has been expensive to try to figure out (so if you kid has a rash on there butt, let me see it before you spend $300 on dr. visits and crazy creams).
We are looking forward to this weekend and we hope every has a wonderful day celebrating the Lords day, Easter, on Sunday!!!
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