Well, I agree with Nutcutlet, in that it looks like bruising from something. I've seen lots of bites this summer, they look nothing like that. Generally an allergic dermatitis will respond to hydrocortisone cream plus an antihistamine, often in the space of a few hours.
The chances of 2 friends developing the same rare condition at the same time are very small. With the similarity of the lesions on just one part of the body the chances are even smaller. With the normal blood count the chances are nil.
I still think this is some sort of physical damage.
Nine years old is quite a mischievous age. Do you think they might have been giving themselves or each other "love bites" and maybe they didn't anticipate their game getting taken so seriously and can't now fess up?
Come on! They don't look like love bites ( they are diagonal lines) and I don't think the 2 of them had been in close contact before the marks were noticed.
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Well, I agree with Nutcutlet, in that it looks like bruising from something. I've seen lots of bites this summer, they look nothing like that. Generally an allergic dermatitis will respond to hydrocortisone cream plus an antihistamine, often in the space of a few hours.
The chances of 2 friends developing the same rare condition at the same time are very small. With the similarity of the lesions on just one part of the body the chances are even smaller. With the normal blood count the chances are nil.
I still think this is some sort of physical damage.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nine years old is quite a mischievous age. Do you think they might have been giving themselves or each other "love bites" and maybe they didn't anticipate their game getting taken so seriously and can't now fess up?
Or that thing we used to do where you twist the skin round? Chinese burns was it?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was thinking something like a ruler or wii controller being repeatedly tapped against an arm.
Come on! They don't look like love bites ( they are diagonal lines) and I don't think the 2 of them had been in close contact before the marks were noticed.
I'd thought of Chinese burns but you'd have a job doing that at the top of the upper arm.
Is the girl in the striped top right handed, and the girl in the pink top left handed?
Striped top right handed. Dunno about the other. Will find out. Why?
If you hold something like a ruler or tv controller in your hand, and tap it on the opposite arm, you would get that sort of pattern.