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When Is It Not A Rash?
If anyone has advise here I would greatly appreciate it!
I have a 2 yr old dcb that has had a rash above the pubic area just under the front of the diaper for at least a week now. It was there all last week and when he was brought today some of the bumbs have gotten larger. It's more red around the area and a few bumbs are now forming white heads or so it seems. I have asked the DCM 2 times about this rash last week. She says it's from heat but I was always told heat rash should only last a few days. It's been at least a whole week if not longer.
When she came for pick up today I told her the bumps are larger and now forming white heads and he has been putting his hands down there. She shrugged her shoulders. I said "Well is that normal?" She said "it's just a heat rash I told u that." OK "was he checked out?" ...."No it's a heat rash!" She was getting impatient with me so I dropped it but surely she knows what my underlying concern is. Her other child has had MRSA a couple times, most recently 2 months ago just before they came to me, it was on that childs rear. That child also has a couple questionable bumps recently I have inquired about simply because I am afraid and don't know what it looks like when it begins. When I inquire/inform about that childs bumps she says the same, it's the heat, but it has been cold and rainy here until recently. These children are also not very clean. They come here with long thick black fingernails I have to soak and clean the crud out from under them before they can even play or eat. Now with the bumps turning to heads and the dck putting hands down there...
My fear is if it is MRSA and since she doesn't bathe them regularly, let alone wash their hands, it will be passed on to my home, toys, and worst of all other children and my family. I have told her maybe she should have it looked at, she gets a free medical card for God's sake! She refuses chalking it up to heat. What can I do? Does this sound like a normal heat rash? I am so afraid I am bleaching everything in sight tonight!
This family is a state paid family and I can't make her see a Dr. I tried to call the office and ask what I could do but the lady has gone for the day. I can call back tomorrow but worry she will say there's nothing I can do. So in everyone elses experience here what CAN I do?
I have a 2 yr old dcb that has had a rash above the pubic area just under the front of the diaper for at least a week now. It was there all last week and when he was brought today some of the bumbs have gotten larger. It's more red around the area and a few bumbs are now forming white heads or so it seems. I have asked the DCM 2 times about this rash last week. She says it's from heat but I was always told heat rash should only last a few days. It's been at least a whole week if not longer.
When she came for pick up today I told her the bumps are larger and now forming white heads and he has been putting his hands down there. She shrugged her shoulders. I said "Well is that normal?" She said "it's just a heat rash I told u that." OK "was he checked out?" ...."No it's a heat rash!" She was getting impatient with me so I dropped it but surely she knows what my underlying concern is. Her other child has had MRSA a couple times, most recently 2 months ago just before they came to me, it was on that childs rear. That child also has a couple questionable bumps recently I have inquired about simply because I am afraid and don't know what it looks like when it begins. When I inquire/inform about that childs bumps she says the same, it's the heat, but it has been cold and rainy here until recently. These children are also not very clean. They come here with long thick black fingernails I have to soak and clean the crud out from under them before they can even play or eat. Now with the bumps turning to heads and the dck putting hands down there...
My fear is if it is MRSA and since she doesn't bathe them regularly, let alone wash their hands, it will be passed on to my home, toys, and worst of all other children and my family. I have told her maybe she should have it looked at, she gets a free medical card for God's sake! She refuses chalking it up to heat. What can I do? Does this sound like a normal heat rash? I am so afraid I am bleaching everything in sight tonight!
This family is a state paid family and I can't make her see a Dr. I tried to call the office and ask what I could do but the lady has gone for the day. I can call back tomorrow but worry she will say there's nothing I can do. So in everyone elses experience here what CAN I do?
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