Scarlet Pimpernel

In his ever increasing desire to do the perfect impersonation, Christopher tried to impersonate the Scarlet Pimpernel. However, he thought he had to be scarlet, so went out and caught scarlet fever, silly bugger!

A minor scare for mom and dad as in the course of hours a red rash on his stomach spread all over his body. Of course it didn't help Jenny's nerves when she took him to the clinic and as soon as the first sister saw the rash she called the other sister and they immediately recommended she go to a doctor. At this point anxiety levels jumped from this-is-a-bit-worrying level to what-the-hell-is-going-on level.

We got a doctors appointment for the afternoon, when the doctor looked at Chris and suggested that he be taken to a pediatrician, the anxiety levels sprang straight run-around-in-mindless-panic levels.

We saw the pediatrician at 4pm and he had a look at diagnosed it as scarlet fever. Scarlet fever is a strep throat where the toxins cause the skin to go red and although it used to be serious since the discovery of anti-biotics it is no longer as serious. So a course of anti-biotics and some mild pain killing syrup to help him (and us!) sleep was prescribed.

He has reacted well to the medicine and is now rash free. Through all this he was surprisingly niggle-free, we are very lucky that his is so easy-going.