… can one small child pick up so many illnesses?
Only a few weeks clear of The Evil Stomach Bug[tm], Li’l Bhaji has picked up his latest affliction – Slapped Cheek Disease, otherwise known as Fifth Disease or Erythema Infectiosum. No, I hadn’t really heard of it before either, but I’d taken him to toddler group as I’d just assumed it was a heavy cold and chapped cheeks due to the cold and someone said “hang on, is that slapped cheek?” A quick trip to the docs and the GP confirmed the diagnosis within seconds of walking through the door. Oops.
So now we’re confined to the house again (Slapped Cheek can be nasty if pregnant women are exposed to it). I like my house, but not so much that I want to be in it 24/7 yet again. The worst is that he’s not even acting ill, so I have a hyperactive toddler who desperately needs to burn some energy and can’t understand why he’s not allowed to go to any of his normal activities.
Of course, the optimist in me just knows the second he goes back he’ll pick up another bug…
2 responses so far ↓
1 Alley Katt // 28th Jan 2007 at 11:26 am
Before my son had his tonsiladenoidectomy, he used to spend most of the year at hone with tonsilitis. But slapped cheek. That is a new one. Odd though, as you say in this weather you would expect it to be just a chilly face.
Hope he gets better soon.
2 Pewari // 29th Jan 2007 at 5:35 pm
Yes, just about everyone has said they’ve never heard of it before. Oh well.
I thought he was getting better today as I couldn’t see the rash anywhere, but I notice it’s come back this evening, so looks like a good few days of it left yet…
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