Would you believe that small children can get a horrible looking rash from head to toe and nobody knows what it is? Well that scenario would have seemed far-fetched to me a month ago. But that’s just what happened to my son Miles.

He contracted this so-called “non-specific viral illness” one day completely out of the blue. I left my perfectly healthy looking son in the morning one day to go to work and when I got home late that afternoon, I could not believe my eyes. My son was standing before me covered from head to toe with red, spotty rash like dots. He looked awful! And I, of course, felt terrible for him.

In spite of how he looked, Miles seemed to be in good spirits, and my first thought was that he had contracted Chicken Pox. I remembered my little brother had Chicken Pox and was in good spirits too. In addition, my Mother said when I was as a small child I got the Chicken Pox too. So I did some research about Chicken Pox online and read a little in the book “What to Expect in the First Year” by Arlene Eisenberg, which states that Chicken Pox is a common childhood illness. But my husband thought he had the Measles! Although I didn’t think it was life-threatening illness, I had little knowledge with either Measles or Chicken Pox.

What to do?

First, I gave my son a nice warm bath and then dressed him in light loose fitting clothes. I then clipped his fingernails, (as to not spread or infect other areas of the body). Then I called the Pediatrician.