Healthy daughter now showing Bart rash

[cobbiemommy]

DD, 15, and very healthy and active (plays three sports, marching band, etc) has just started having a one inch long rash next to her bellybutton. To others, it probably looks like a stretch mark, but to me after seeing her brother's Bart rash, it looks like Bart. The clincher is that we put Clindagel on it (clindamyacin antibiotic prescribed for brother) and it started to fade in the same day. Also, she started to get patches on her shoulders and upper arms that look like Vitiligo-where the skin is white while around it is tanned. She has never had this before and no one in my family has ever had it.

 

She is a little more emotional and all that but I chalked that up to being 15. My gut says call the LLMD right away and get her on rifampin. Anyone else experience Bart in more than one child??

 

Cobbie

[tpotter]

DD, 15, and very healthy and active (plays three sports, marching band, etc) has just started having a one inch long rash next to her bellybutton. To others, it probably looks like a stretch mark, but to me after seeing her brother's Bart rash, it looks like Bart. The clincher is that we put Clindagel on it (clindamyacin antibiotic prescribed for brother) and it started to fade in the same day. Also, she started to get patches on her shoulders and upper arms that look like Vitiligo-where the skin is white while around it is tanned. She has never had this before and no one in my family has ever had it.

 

She is a little more emotional and all that but I chalked that up to being 15. My gut says call the LLMD right away and get her on rifampin. Anyone else experience Bart in more than one child??

 

Cobbie

 

 

I'd say follow your gut. Sounds like Bart (DS has both types of rash.)

 

BTW...I've never heard of clindagel. Does it work faster that oral clindomycen?

[nicklemama]

The white skin patches you describe sounds like a fungal infection. My Dh has had this. OTC Lotrimin will take care of it.