Red Rashes Of Childhood

Question 1

Oval shaped vesicles on palms/soles + vesicles and ulcers in oral mucosa

Answer 1

Hand-foot-mouth disease

Coxsackievirus type A

Question 2

Asymptomatic rose-colored macular appear on body after several days of high fever
Can have febrile seizures
Usually in infants

Answer 2

Roseola (ex anthem subitum)

Human herpesvirus 6

Question 3

Confluent rash beginning at head and moving down

Preceded by cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, blue-white (Koplik) spots on buccal mucosa

Answer 3

Measles (rubeola)

Question 4

Slapped cheek on face

Answer 4

Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease)
Parvovirus B19
Can cause hydrops fatalis in pregnant women

Question 5

Pink macules and papules begin at head and move down, remain discrete –> fine desquamating truncal rash
Postauricular lymphadenopathy

Answer 5

Rubella (German measles)

Question 6

Erythematosus, sandpaper-like rash with fever and sore throat

Answer 6

Scarlet fever

GAS

Question 7

Vesicular rash begins on trunk, spreads to face and extremities with lesions of different stages

Answer 7

Chickenpox

Varicella