Was the rash strep? Did I miss it AGAIN? Anyone know strep rashes?

[eljomom]

Back in January, dd7 (pitand/pandas dd) and ds11 both had sore throats, low fevers (not more than 100 if that), and after a couple days, got a rash on one side of their mouth spreading toward the cheek, about the size of a half dollar or so. He had slept in bed with her leading up to and during this time (yes, I outsource my other kids for the nighttime separation anxiety)..their throats also had red blood vessels visible on the back but didn't seem ######. They were not acting sick, just sore throats, and a bit runny noses. I called our pandas doc to see if there was any point in taking to the ped. for a throat culture, since she is on 100 mg. Zithromax----I thought (mistakenly, I now learned) that you couldn't get strep on abx, and that cultures would be negative. Doctor never called back, and I let it go,thinking she would called have if it was important to have her tested. Finally, after days of the rash, as it started going away, I got a call back and they said i should take her in to ped. So I did, and ped. looked at it and said it looks like healing from chapped skin. Very weird that BOTH of my kids that got it, got it on the same morning, after sharing a bed for days, same sore throat, only on one side of mouth, just weird. So no culture was done.

 

So, jump forward to today.... I was talking to a mom at my son's writing class, and she was telling me about how her kids never tested positive for strep when they had a sore throat, but that one time all her daughter had was a little red rash by her mouth, and no other symptoms, and it was strep!!!!!! Anyhow, I took a picture of the rash back when it was there (Jan. 12th)---the ONE THING I have actually thought to do that might be of any value, and just looked at it...wondered if anyone here is able to look at rashes and tell if it looks "streppy?" Really just curious at this point. I would love to post it to see if anyone can look at it and tell me if it looks streppy. Is it safe to post a pic of a child here? And would any of you be good at ID'ing a strep rash?

 

Thanks,

wendy