Roseola Baby

Well this week has been a very interesting week, Madalynn woke up on Tuesday morning covered in little red spots, I was concerned. so we called a doctor and a nurse told us she was probably having a reaction to the amoxicillan she was taking for an ear infection and to give her benadryl and it would go away. The next morning it was even worse so I chose a doctor to go see and he informed me that she had roseola, not knowing what that was. He explained that it was a viral infection that kids 2 years old and younger usually get. That it is highly contagious for a day or two then not anymore, so contagious that if a baby with it could pass another baby in a store and pass it on with no contact. We learned a lot about roseola and now that she has had it she will never have it again. Also the doctor thinks it is highly likely that our 2 others have had it they just didn't get the rash, the had cold symptoms and a fever so we didn't know it was roseola. Not all kids get the rash so we had no idea it was roseola. The doctor says it doesn't hurt the child at all the worst part is the itching and that kept Madalynn up the 3 nights James was home for his weekend. I took this picture on Friday so this was not the worst of it she had that rash everywhere and it was a little worse than in the picture, when I took the picture her face and arms had mostly cleared up. She and I got our 1st whole night of sleep last night so I was very happy this morning.