Author Topic: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?  (Read 9809 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« on: August 25, 2012, 19:21:45 pm »
ok....so i've just seen this thread so i said i'd try here for some BTDT eyes!i've posted already but am so confused!

the past few days LO has had little splotches on her limbs. it seems to improve overnight & then reappears again during the day.we took her to the GP & she is otherwise well-GP reckons it's a reaction to food/formula. ??? ???

here's the story so far!

she started solids 7 weeks ago-following AK's planner, give or take.
EBF for 6 months when i started to swap BFs for BM in a bottle.
Started formula (aptamil stage 1) on the 16th (starting with 1oz & building up to a full feed by the 20th of 6oz)
I was down to 1 BF but Ive reintroduced the morning one today to try & make my frozen stash last a bit longer.

I haven't given her formula since yesterday morning (5oz)....as i said, it improved overnight but within a few hours of waking,it was back again,although not as bad as yesterday.i had thought it must be the formula as this is what happened yesterday morning (after the morning formula feed) but she didn't have formula today & it still happened (although not as bad)

sooooo confused!!!!
any advice?

the only cereal she's had is Plum 4 grain porridge (egg,gluten&dairy free)
veg she's had: butternut squaash,sweet potato, carrot, parsnip, potato, swede, broccoli, courgette, cauliflower, red pepper (i initially thought it may be the pepper because i gave it to her on the 22nd & that was when the rash got noticably bad, but im almost certain it was there before that in the previous day or so but i just hadnt paid it too much attention cause it was just one or two spots)
fruit she's had:pear, apple, papaya , banana, avocado, peach, mango, melon, plum






Offline Buntybear

  • Food Allergies
  • Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 130
  • Posts: 9686
  • Just the wheat allergy to go now!
  • Location: UK
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2012, 21:17:54 pm »
Are you able to take the formula out of her diet and see if the rash clears up?

Are the splotches like eczema? I guess the doc has ruled out a virus?

Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2012, 07:30:00 am »
GP says it's not eczema.
i've not given her formula since Fri morning....splotches gone again this morning....let's see what the day brings!






Offline Shiv52

  • The Diplomat
  • Global Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 585
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 25307
  • Location:
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2012, 08:01:16 am »
Have you changed washing powders, soaps or the like?





Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2012, 08:18:03 am »
nope!nothing!!!!totally stumped!






Offline koe2moe

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 250
  • Posts: 20969
  • Battle on the chess board
  • Location:
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2012, 09:26:21 am »
Is it perhaps to do with the heat in the day?  The kind of clothes during the day vs night?  Rubbing, or breathable, or it could be something not in the bedroom but in other rooms?



Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2012, 09:31:36 am »
i'm beginning to think she's allergic to the daytime!!!!!! :)
our dogs aren't allowed upstairs....but she's been around them since day 1.
she'd gotten a few more splotches again by the time i was putting her down for her nap...that was while she was still in her babygro....






Offline abbysmomma

  • BW Devotee
  • ****
  • Showing Appreciation 26
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 475
  • Location:
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2012, 15:28:02 pm »
Ds1 also has chronic idiopathic urticaria, which means hives of unknown origin. Usually it's caused by a virus, and your child may have  no other symptoms other than the splotches. If you're seeing no pattern or reason foor the rash, it migght be this. We drove ourselves crazy when this happened to ds, and were thinking that we was developing a new allergy to add to his rather long list. He ended up having it for almost two months and was on benedryl almost round the clock. Poor kid was so uncomfortable, and the rashes were huge! Did your dd have a cold in the last while, just prior to the splotches starting? It sometimes shows up like this, but not always as it didnn't for ds. We figured out that it wasn't food related bc he would often go to bed with nothing and would wake up in the morning with hives. Anyways, i'm rambling. If your ped thinks it might be allergy related, pleasse see ann allergist.

Offline Buntybear

  • Food Allergies
  • Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 130
  • Posts: 9686
  • Just the wheat allergy to go now!
  • Location: UK
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2012, 17:16:47 pm »
Olly often gets blotches that are unrelated to food or allergies. At the moment we are putting it down to heat as it is muggy.

I am NO expert but I thought eczema or hives were allergic reactions. Does the gP think it is hives if not eczema?

Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2012, 18:49:14 pm »
she didn't mention hives???
weather hasn't been any different here of late....
no cold/sickness TG ever...we've been so lucky with her! touch wood!
she isn't scratching & doesn't seem uncomfortable....she's in great form,totally herself!






Offline abbysmomma

  • BW Devotee
  • ****
  • Showing Appreciation 26
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 475
  • Location:
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2012, 23:45:37 pm »
Are the splotches red? Wiith a small raised white dot in the middle? That's a hive. Ds would also get large (size of my hand) welts on his torso whichh were aalso hives. Excema is more scaly red rough patches, usually in fthe folds of skin. Hives are usually an allergic response, while excema isn't necessarily.

Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2012, 08:22:11 am »
no,no raised dot.just a flat red splotch, the size of a pimple i guess with some a little bigger.






Offline Buntybear

  • Food Allergies
  • Moderator
  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 130
  • Posts: 9686
  • Just the wheat allergy to go now!
  • Location: UK
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2012, 21:20:09 pm »
Hi how are things?

Offline *happy*

  • Resident BW Chatterbox!
  • *****
  • Showing Appreciation 55
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5199
  • blessed to have found BWing.xxx
  • Location: Ireland
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2012, 07:42:57 am »
ugh....no better really!well...i guess they're not worse,but it's not cleared...We went to the GP on tues...saw a different one who is totally stumped & contradicted herself throughout (it can't be the food...it must be something she's exposed to....but keep her off x, y & z....but it can't be the food....."ugh.....wish i had a good doctor.to be fair to her though,she's taking it seriously & wanted me to phone her this morning with an update-she gave us antihistamines-& said she could get us in for a blood test in the hospital later if need be.....i've introduced back in the formula & there doesn't seem to be much difference to it's hard to tell now that she's on the antihistamines.....






Offline abbysmomma

  • BW Devotee
  • ****
  • Showing Appreciation 26
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 475
  • Location:
Re: rash gets better overnight,back again in the morning?
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2012, 11:10:47 am »
Are the splotches better on the antihistamine? How often is she taking it? Sorry it's taking so long to figure out.