My son has had swollen glands for months and has now developed a rash covering his trunk which looks like hives? or mosquito bites? He is also having knee pain. going to doc tomorrow. Anyone ever had this type of rash with lymes? Thanks.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
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i sent you this by private message, pm; they can be found at top of left side below HELLO by flashing light or in my profile. good luck. Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Hi -- I'm chemical sensitive and react often with rashes to chemicals that don't agree with me.
Most recently, to detergents, even the hypoallergenic ones. I discovered that all clothing that I had washed with the detergents had to be rinsed in water multiple times and then thrown into the dryer in order for me to be able to touch the clothing.
If your son is chemical sensitive, it is possible he is reacting to something he is touching. It takes some sleuthing to figure it out. Probably like a process of elimination.
Posted by Tracy S (Member # 11246) on :
The doctor will more than likely check for strep. It is the old adage that strep is a throat infection, but that isn't true. A strep infection runs through your body and more often than not, settles in your throat. However, sometimes instead of the burning throat, you end up with a trunk rash - labeled a "strep rash". My son had this with no sore throat. But since your son has swollen glands, I would assume its a strep rash. Google photos of strep rash and see if it is similar.
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
Both my grandchildren were ill this summer. Both started with a fine full body rash, fevers, and one had extremely large lymph swelling glands.
One tested positive for strep, the other negative. Doctor said the one that tested negative had already gone past the throat strep testing positive range, but he continued to be ill with it.
Their rash wasn't close to being welps or mosquito looking. Rashes vary from person to person. Lyme rashes differ from person to person.
The rash could be related to lyme-like illness since he is having other symptoms.
Pam
Posted by derdew39 (Member # 13177) on :
Thanks everyone. Doc said he doesn't think rash is related to other problem as it is not "the lymes rash". However, he "may very well have lymes" but we won't know till we do the test. he seemed to think it was sand flea bites from the beach. I don't think so but . . . Anyway he is running lymes test and others and will keep you advised.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Hm - sand flea bites - I am aware of someone who thinks they got Lyme from sand flea bites at the beach. Anyone else have an experience like that?
Posted by laura j (Member # 14257) on :
Hmmm....I know this is an old thread but I just came across it. I had a tick bite in 2000 and noticed weird symptoms here and there until 2004. Then, between 2004-2007 I got increasingly ill until I completely crashed in 2007.
After getting dx, I assumed it was from the tick bite in 2000 and it very well may be BUT, what robin 123 said about sand fleas made me remember that in the summer of 2004, my fiance and I were pretty much attacked on the beach by sand fleas! I started getting really sick in fall of that year! Wow, I wonder! Maybe the bites at the beach were a second exposure that pushed me over the edge.
Posted by LisaS (Member # 10581) on :
I never had the bulleye rash, but I did have hives all over my legs for months when I first got sick. Doctors never figured out what they were from, lyme or not?
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