Third Doctors Visit This Week!

We're aiming for a record here. Tuesday the kids had a dentist appointment, Wednesday Grace had her 4 year check up, and today Grace got to visit Dr. Farah again to check out the funny rash she developed yesterday. We noticed that her left eye was red Thursday afternoon and soon after discovered she had itchy red bumps next to her belly button. Since I knew she received the chicken pox vaccine the day before I naturally got worried and called the On Call Nurse. She promptly told me that it was very unlikely to be related to the vaccine since any reaction would occur near the injection site (her leg) and wouldn't show up for several days, more likely a week. I was told to treat it as a bug bite. This morning things looked pretty much the same but she was otherwise feeling fine. The outside of her eye is red but the inside was perfectly normal so I knew it wasn't pink eye so we went ahead and went to the Polk County Fair as planned. Had a great time, but when we got home I checked her tummy again and discovered that the spots had multiplied.

I called the On Call Nurse again and she made us an appointment for this afternoon. Luckily David was working from home today so I was able to leave Ethan at home napping and just took Grace in to Salem to see the doctor. Dr. Farah looked her over and agreed that it wasn't pink eye and that the spots weren't from the chicken pox vaccine. She was pretty sure that it's Contact Dermatitis, which means she rubbed her belly and eye after touching something her skin is allergic to. Since we have Poison Oak behind our house this isn't exactly a huge surprise. That's my best guess as to where she could have come in contact with something to cause the rash.

We left the doctor's office with a prescription for steroid cream for her belly and instructions to buy Children's Zantac to give her once a day. Since steroid cream isn't safe near the eye she told us to use Vaseline to keep it from drying out and gave us a prescription for some spendy cream that we can use if it doesn't clear up on it's own soon. She said to only use that as a Plan B. I guess we can use antibiotic cream on the rash twice a day as well. Hopefully poor Grace is rash-free soon!