Mystery Rash

When Max woke up Sunday morning with a fever, he also said his feet hurt. I didn't think much of it until he started crawling around because it hurt to walk. I took off his pajamas to look at his feet and he had a rash all over his feet, on the top and the bottom.


By Sunday evening the rash had spread up to his knees. We took him to the doctor and they said he had hives but that they don't usually come with a fever. By Monday evening the rash had spread to his hands, arms, neck and head and his fever was really high.


When the thermometer read 105 degrees I called the doctor and they said to take him to the emergency room. Bret took him to the ER and they ran a bunch of tests and didn't really know what it was. After more than 5 hours they sent him home and said to follow up with his doctor in the morning to get the test results. Tuesday morning Max woke up still with a high fever and a sore neck and back. This had us really worried, so Bret took him to the doctor, they spend several hours at the doctor's office, he was able to rule out several things including and allergic reaction and meningitis. The doctor sent them home and said to call him if he got any worse.

By the afternoon Max's feet were really itching and hurting, he was getting really hysterical by evening so I called the doctor, he told us to go to Primary Children's ER to have some tests run to see if he had an infectious disease. Those 2 words are not what you want to hear in connection with your child. At Primary Children's they were great with him. They ran several more tests and determined that it was a virus that was causing the fever and the rash and his inflamed lymph nodes that were giving him a sore neck.

It was pretty scary but he is doing much better, yesterday his fever was gone and his rash started disappearing and today he is pretty much back to normal.