As he gets less, there’s more …
The ‘burnt’ wound on Vai’s nose is looking better now. The skin on the nose is still rather pinkish but most of the scabs have come off by themselves. Which is good.
Now, the puzzling thing about all this is, as the skin on the nose gets better, he’s getting bits and pieces of ‘extra sores’ elsewhere. It’s as if they slowly crop up from nowhere!
He now has little reddish brown ‘sores’ under his left eye, near his right eyelid, under his nostrils, on his lip line. And the biggest of them all is on his chin (ie. the size of a green pea).
I can definitely tell they’re not ‘scratch wounds’. The look of the ‘sores’ is very similar to how it all started (ie. the day AFTER I applied Zam-buk on his nose and fyi, I applied the ointment only twice on Vai and that was before we noticed any change on his skin)
I went and browsed the internet for more info, and I sort of suspected that perhaps they’re cold sores. And as we’re seeing little new ones appearing on his face every two days or so, we decided that it’s best to just see a doctor.
[Vai, as at 5 August]
After examining Vai’s sores, he ruled out the possibility of them being cold sores (as cold sores are not likely to have been triggered from the nose area). He couldn’t pinpoint any definite cause of Vai’s skin (weird) condition though, and so he’s referred us to a paediatrician who specialises in dermatology.
Sigh. It’s good that we get to find out what’s really going on with him, but I can’t help but feel a bit concerned though. The whole thing somehow becomes a little more complicated than what I originally thought.
Oh well. We’ll see what the specialist will say.
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If you’ve seen / encountered similar cases with your kids or your friends’ kids, please do share with us.
Thanks heaps!
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Hi Mike!
Welcome to the site and thanks for dropping the comment! And hey you’re absolutely right! The dermatologist this morning told me that it’s Impetigo! Will share more about Vai’s case and this recent diagnosis on the site, for other people’s reference in the future!
hi, stomped upon your blog…..very well written!! think vai’s having a secondary bacterial infection called impetigo. He needs antibiotics.
Valentine and Liew Yang :
Thanks so much for sharing and letting me know each of your case! Really appreciate it! This way I can ask the doctor too about it.
We went to see the dermatologist this morning, and apparently it’s nothing like what we all expected!
I’ll share the details on the site for everyone’s future reference!
xxx
Leonny
PS: Liew Yang, thanks for dropping your first comment here! Nice to hear from you!
Hi Leonny, Have u checked his bedroom or surrounding? There is a tiny bug called rove bug/beetle (if I am not mistaken) in black and orange stripe that will produce a kind of acidic chemical that will cause the skin burnt and the burn will spread to other part of the body if touched. My eldest son once got it and it caused the back of the ear burnt from a small spot to a big spot! What we do is use a kind of solution given from the dermalogist and clean it daily. It took weeks to recover.
My husband has something like this starting from his teens. all over his leg. Something like a sensitive skin condition and it will worsen when he touched the grass as theres a certain chemical reaction that will cause patches of eczema .
He still has that marking on his leg over his years of playing soccer and golf on the grass.
So skin specialist might be able to find a solution.
Many thanks Sandra for the web reference! Yes, I think it’s some allergic reaction too! Will search and check out the site!
And, welcome to the site! 🙂
Hi there Leonny,
Sandra here – i’m rather new to your blog & like reading it 😉
i think it might be an allergic reaction to the Zam-Buk (which i use to but only for bruises). But u could also check – http://www.drgreene.org/
search under sores & see if any of them match Vai’s.
Hope this helps.