CASES of scarlet fever are higher than normal for this time of year and parents have been warned to be on the lookout for symptoms. Scarlet fever is one of winter’s childhood illnesses and the bact…
illnesses and the bacterial infection can be caught by anyone, but most commonly affects children under ten.Credit: Alamy-like symptoms including a sore throat or rash, headache, high temperature, sickness and swollen glands in the neck.
A distinctive rash appears 12 to 48 hours later, which spreads from the chest and tummy and looks like small, raised bumps which will make skin feel rough and sandpaper-like to the touch. A white coating also appears on the tongue, which then peels and results in “strawberry tongue” – when the tongue becomes red and swollen and covered in little bumps.
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