| Along with the cautions about flu, it's also necessary to | | | | Follow your physician's instructions about your child's |
| be aware that some rashes are contagious and may | | | | return to pre-school or school. If there is a bacterial |
| be picked up by your child at school, spread by | | | | infection that is the source of the rash, it's often |
| co-workers or passed around in a nursing home. | | | | advised to wait till fever is gone and antibiotics are fully |
| Rashes also may migrate from one part of the body | | | | in the system. For a scabies mites rash, there is a |
| to another. | | | | pesticide to apply and a procedure for washing one's |
| Some rashes are not contagious. Insect bite rashes, | | | | clothing and bedding. When someone has a staph |
| food intolerances or a reaction to a chemical | | | | infection rash it's important to cover it and be careful at |
| substance as well as dermatitis eczema rashes are | | | | football practice or other sports situations. Staph or |
| not spread from person to person. Some rashes that | | | | mersa is contagious and goes around high school and |
| are contagious include scabies, poison ivy, chicken pox | | | | college football teams. |
| and fungal rashes. Scabies is a mite that can burrow | | | | Children have a show and tell attitude often to a rash |
| under the skin and be passed on to another person by | | | | or similar bodily irregularity. Be sure your kids know to |
| holding hands, sharing a bed or at school. With a fungal | | | | not touch someone's eruption, blister or wound. There |
| rash, contact in locker rooms by sharing towels, socks | | | | may be some bacteria that is nasty in that fluid. Explain |
| or physical contact can pass this on. Poison ivy oils | | | | to your children that they can catch a skin infection just |
| can be spread around one's own body if the urushiol oil | | | | like a cold or flu and that they'd never share a tissue |
| touches the skin. The oil can also cause someone else | | | | with someone. Discourage scratching as well to |
| to get eruptions. It is important with poison ivy to | | | | someone who has a rash as this can move it from |
| inspect clothing, shoes and backpack to be sure | | | | one part of the body to another. Scabies can hide in |
| traces of the oil don't remain. | | | | the nails even and be spread elsewhere on the body. |
| With the chicken pox and measles, vaccination is | | | | Fungal infections as well as herpes fever blisters can |
| important for kids. These can be spread by contact as | | | | spread. Benadryl is useful when one is very itchy to |
| well as airborn. It's important to know if the rash is viral, | | | | prevent the itching that leads to scratching. |
| bacterial, an allergy or another source to know the | | | | There are many sprays of hand sanitizers that kids |
| best way to protect oneself and one's kids. Don't just | | | | can like at the health food store. This is a fun thing to |
| take advice about any rash as a solution to your own. | | | | use and kids can use peppermint or orange flavored |
| Some rashes benefit from calamine lotion , while | | | | sprays to spray their hands when around others with |
| others require moisturizer and shouldn't be dried up. | | | | the flu, colds and rashes. |