[Slings and Arrows]

Let me elaborate on my previous post. From the sound of your description, it might be cellulitis or some other infection. Then again, maybe it's just some allergic dermatitis. Then again, you (and I) don't know what it is, and that makes it dangerous.

A couple of weeks ago I went to the emergency room with what I thought was a bad rash on my foot. I ended up being hospitalized for three days - my "rash" was a life-threatening infection. In the words of Larry Niven:

"If you don't understand it, it's dangerous."

So please, take your daughter to the emergency room.

[CaliGirl-R]

Last Saturday, my neighbor’s 1 yr old boy had a rash break out on his feet and it spread up his legs by Monday. She took him to an Urgent Care and ER and they both sent her home to monitor for two days. Luckily she took him right to Loma Linda UMC out here and he was first diagnosed with Henoch-Schonlein Pupura and after more tests, has Kawasaki Disease, a rare and severe disorder. He has been hospitalized since Tuesday.

It scares me that she was sent on her way by the docs. We were thinking it was a derma problem and it ended up being a disease that affects his heart and kidneys. Damn.