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The rash has a variable appearance, ranging from a few blotchy red spots to many yellow-white bumps and boils. The classic presentation is 1–3 mm, firm, yellow-white bumps with a surrounding red halo. The rash is often described as "flea-bitten." There may be only a few or many lesions, and they may be clustered or widespread.
Roseola, also known as sixth disease, is an infectious disease caused by certain types of human herpes viruses. [2] Most infections occur before the age of three. [1] Symptoms vary from absent to the classic presentation of a fever of rapid onset followed by a rash.
The rash spreads to the neck and body extremities and lasts 1-2 days. Scarlet fever , or "second disease", is associated with the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes . Fourth disease , also known as "Dukes' disease" is a condition whose existence is not widely accepted today.
the baby's nostrils expand when it inhales [32] expiratory grunt: a sound of effort when the baby exhales [32] [34] apnea: the baby stops breathing [31] [32] rash [32] positive urine culture [31] positive cerebral spinal fluid [31] other positive cultures: from eyes, ear canal, umbilicus axilla anus [31] lethargy: the baby seems tired and has ...
And, along with the rash, there may be other viral symptoms, such as swollen lymph nodes, sore throat, mild fever, stomach pain and lack of appetite. Ringworm Human ringworm (Getty Images)
Neonatal sepsis is a type of neonatal infection and specifically refers to the presence in a newborn baby of a bacterial blood stream infection (BSI) (such as meningitis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, or gastroenteritis) in the setting of fever. Older textbooks may refer to neonatal sepsis as "sepsis neonatorum".
Pityriasis rosea is a type of skin rash. [2] Classically, it begins with a single red and slightly scaly area known as a "herald patch". [2] This is then followed, days to weeks later, by an eruption of many smaller scaly spots; pinkish with a red edge in people with light skin and greyish in darker skin. [4]
Koplik's spots (also Koplik's sign) are a prodromic viral enanthem of measles manifesting two to three days before the measles rash itself. They are characterized as clustered, white lesions on the buccal mucosa (opposite the upper 1st & 2nd molars ) and are pathognomonic for measles . [ 2 ]