I think they had been playing netball but they do that all the time with no such effects and remember it took 2 days for the marks to appear on g.d's second arm, during which she had been hanging round hospital not outside at all.
Well, the second dr. in the children's ward disagreed with the dermatologist (who had said horsefly or hornet bite) , didn't she? I'm keeping an open mind but I agree that it looks like bruising rather than inflammation. Alarmingly, there was an article in Sun. Times y'day saying that diagnosis is very poor and quite a few kids die as a result of failure to diagnose e.g. meningitis, asthma etc. Having diagnosed my husband's sacral cancer after being told all he had was coccydinia and having insisted on a 2nd opinion when he was told by GP he didn't have Parkinson's, which he does, I never take anything as gospel and like to do my own checking.
It's not an odd question. I have also read about fish oil causing similar and asked her Ma but she says not. I think we're all agreed that it doesn't look like contact derm.despite what the doctors say; I've looked at lots of pictures myself. We could all be wrong, however!
I agree, except it says that it can follow a viral infection, which they could both have had. I gather this can cause a lowering of the platelet count but as I said hers were said to be normal so presumably not that.
Bruises are starting to fade in the usual way, starting with the areas which appeared first.
What intrigues me is that the drs. don't appear to have seen anything quite like it before so presumably quite rare.
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Seems 'contact' dermatitis would appear on the skin surface, as Nut says, this looks like it's just under the skin.
Bouleversee, this might seem an odd question but does your grand daughter take fish oil supplements?
nice picture here of contact dermatitis.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dermatitis/DS00543
It looks nothing like what the two girls have.
I think they had been playing netball but they do that all the time with no such effects and remember it took 2 days for the marks to appear on g.d's second arm, during which she had been hanging round hospital not outside at all.
Well, the second dr. in the children's ward disagreed with the dermatologist (who had said horsefly or hornet bite) , didn't she? I'm keeping an open mind but I agree that it looks like bruising rather than inflammation. Alarmingly, there was an article in Sun. Times y'day saying that diagnosis is very poor and quite a few kids die as a result of failure to diagnose e.g. meningitis, asthma etc. Having diagnosed my husband's sacral cancer after being told all he had was coccydinia and having insisted on a 2nd opinion when he was told by GP he didn't have Parkinson's, which he does, I never take anything as gospel and like to do my own checking.
It's not an odd question. I have also read about fish oil causing similar and asked her Ma but she says not. I think we're all agreed that it doesn't look like contact derm.despite what the doctors say; I've looked at lots of pictures myself. We could all be wrong, however!
Just out of interest, Did they give her a cream or anything? if so, what? and did it have any effect.?
Actually, I should have thought ITP (idiopathic thrombocyopenia purpura) was more likely but she had blood tests and platelets were apparently normal.
No, they didn't prescribe anything.
ITP is extremely rare and I wouldn't expect to see it in two children together.
Has it faded like a normal bruise i.e. gone from red to yellow to fade? or did it just go?
I agree, except it says that it can follow a viral infection, which they could both have had. I gather this can cause a lowering of the platelet count but as I said hers were said to be normal so presumably not that.
Bruises are starting to fade in the usual way, starting with the areas which appeared first.
What intrigues me is that the drs. don't appear to have seen anything quite like it before so presumably quite rare.