Sunday 12 April 2009

Fifth Disease (Slapped Cheek Syndrome)

Our children have all been suffering with the symptoms of Fifth Disease the last few weeks, the common name is Slapped Cheek Syndrome (or Slap Cheek) because it looks like slapped cheeks funnily enough!

Sol has had another flair up, the rash comes and goes ...

It is hard to tell on the photos, the rash in real life is darker than it appears here.

1 comment:

  1. Such a darlin child, slapped cheeks
    and all!
    My grandson, who lives in Pa. had
    this 5th disease in January. Other children in his area also were down
    with this.
    I never heard of this nor did any
    older people when I made inquiries
    about it so I took my request to the encyclopedia~~Google~~ and found all that was needed to know.
    So basically my deductions are that
    with children all over the world having this, to me, it means that there is something different in their systems than those born between the 1930's-1970's who never
    had this yet alone ever heard of it.
    Quite an interesting mission I got
    into however it's unfortunate that
    I am unable to proceed with it.
    Priorities you know!
    Audrey

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