One of the types of rashes that may appear on human skin is a rose- rash rash. In children, it usually accompanies roseola disease - it most often overtakes people at a tender age, but sometimes it happens in adults. In addition, adults can find such a rash in case of pink lichen, typhoid fever, typhus, or syphilis. In rare cases, rashes accompany scarlet fever or mononucleosis, which are traditionally also considered children's.
Appearance of rose-colored rash
The roseola rash is a pale pink or red spot of round or irregular shape with clear or blurry edges. Their diameter ranges from one to five millimeters, they are flat - they do not rise above the skin. They have a smooth surface. If you press on the spot or stretch the skin, then the redness disappears.
Rose-papular rash: description
In some cases, the rash, which in all respects fits the definition of roseola, is still different from it. The spots are convex in shape. And then it is advisable to talk about a rose-papular rash, that is, papules are also present on the skin. Papule is a fragment of rashes that rises above the skin. All other characteristics (color, size, shape) - correspond to the usual roseolous rash.
This rash of a mixed nature indicates much more serious ailments: infectious mononucleosis or typhoid.
Roseola in an adult
As already noted above, this ailment is considered a childhood disease. In adults, it occurs in extremely rare cases and, as a rule, affects people with serious autoimmune abnormalities. If the person is relatively healthy, then the herpes virus of the sixth and seventh groups, which is the cause of roseola, will cause only chronic fatigue syndrome. And then those who are over 60.
But if nevertheless roseola overtook an adult, then its manifestations will be:
- High temperature (often to critical levels).
- Pain and aches in the body.
- Enlarged submandibular lymph nodes.
- Roseolous rash that appears about the third day from the onset of the disease.
Special treatment is not provided. Unless you have to take antipyretic drugs. And the temperature and rash usually go away on their own after a few days.
Rash with pink lichen
More often, adults suffer from pink lichen giber. At risk are people from twenty to forty years old, prone to allergies and having weakened immunity (for example, after an acute respiratory viral infection or another transferred disease). As for the reason, here scientists still have no consensus. Some believe that the causative agent is streptococcus, while others blame one of the varieties of herpes in everything.
With pink lichen, a rose-colored rash also appears. The very first spot, as a rule, pops up on the skin of the chest. It is a bright pink plaque called maternal. Sometimes there may be several such spots, and approximately seven days after their occurrence, they have “babies” - small pink spots with a smooth surface, not connected to each other, scattered throughout the body. This "breeding" usually lasts three weeks. When dying, a speck may peel off and turn yellow in the middle, but the edges remain smooth. After 21 days of illness, the rash begins to wane. The spots fade and fade.
In addition to rashes, Zhiber's lichen is accompanied by mild malaise, slight itching, sometimes in the midst of the disease, submandibular and cervical lymph nodes increase, the temperature may rise, but not too much.
Specific treatment in this case is also not provided. The patient is usually prescribed a diet, refusal of synthetic clothing, the use of body cosmetics, washing with a hard washcloth, etc. In especially difficult cases (if severe itching occurs), antihistamines or corticosteroid ointments for topical application may be prescribed.
Is there a roseolous rash with typhoid fever?
Such a serious disease as typhoid fever is also usually accompanied by the presence of small pink or reddish spots on the skin with a smooth surface. Itching is absent. The appearance of rashes is due to the fact that the permeability of blood vessels is impaired, and the skin is impregnated with blood.
Typically, with typhoid fever, a rose-colored rash appears on the abdomen, in its upper part, as well as on the chest. You can detect it on the eighth to ninth day of the disease, when the disease reaches its peak. In the same period, a person’s temperature rises sharply, he is overtaken by lethargy and apathy, his consciousness is clouded.
Sometimes there is a rose-petechial rash - roseola plus petechiae (blood points) in their center. This symptom is very disturbing. It indicates that the course of the disease is unfavorable.
In standard cases, the rashes pass on the third or fifth day, and the patient begins to recover.
Roseola with typhus
Roseola-petechial rash is a typical symptom of another formidable disease - typhus. Especially if it is severe. Rashes appear on the fourth to sixth day of the disease. They are localized in the upper part of the body (usually, in addition to the face), on the bends of the hands, on the sides. Sometimes they can be found on the stomach, back, or legs.
After two to three days, the rash disappears, leaving pigmented areas on the skin.
Syphilis rash
A separate type of rash is syphilitic roseola. She, as you might have guessed, affects the skin with syphilis. It has three stages.
First, chancres appear - small sores that have solid bases in the center. They are localized in those parts of the body through which infection occurred: the genitals, the area around the anus, and the mouth.
Twenty to fifty days later, the chancres disappear, and they are replaced by typical rose-colored rashes. The traditional place of “dislocation” is the trunk, arms and legs. New spots appear at a fairly high speed - 10-15 per day, and so on for about nine days. They are located randomly.
At the final stage, syphilitic roseols darken, become yellow-brown or brown, crust under which you can detect purulent foci and dead soft tissues. Later, the crusts disappear.
Children
And yet, most of all, a rose-colored rash is characteristic of a disease that children most often suffer from at a very young age. The reason is the same as in adults - one of the types of herpes.
The ailment begins with a sharp increase in temperature to the highest levels, while knocking it down is not easy. And after three days, a pink rash appears on the body. After about the same amount of time, the rashes will disappear, and the disease will come to naught.
Other manifestations of roseola include an increase in lymph nodes, and sometimes a liver with a spleen. Also in the blood, white blood cells increase or, conversely, decrease. The child may become lethargic and irritable.
The disease itself does not need special treatment, but its symptoms often have to be removed: give the baby an antipyretic, make compresses on the lymph nodes. Sometimes doctors prescribe an antiviral agent and without fail recommend to increase immunity.
It is believed that it is best to get sick with this ailment in childhood, as it causes complications extremely rarely, and adults suffer it much harder.
Similarities with other diseases
Sometimes rashes are confused with other types of rashes, which complicates the diagnosis of the disease.
- The roseola rash, the photo of which is presented in this article, for example, is similar to the spots that occur during allergies. But allergic rashes can appear on any area of the skin. And rose-rose ones have their “favorite” places: belly, chest. The face is rarely affected. In addition, they do not itch.
- You can also confuse roseola with rubella. But with the last spots appear at the very beginning of the disease, and not after a few days.
- Still sometimes, especially restless parents take roseola for ordinary prickly heat, which is usually deployed only in places where there is increased sweating: in the folds of skin on the limbs, on the neck.
Such a rash has three typical signs that distinguish it from other types of rashes: it almost never appears on the face, occurs a few days after the onset of the disease and is not accompanied by itching.
Roseola Prevention
Although doctors do not see anything dangerous in this ailment and urge parents not to panic (supposedly, the sooner the child gets sick, the better), but, of course, mothers and fathers would like him to bypass their child at all.
As the main preventive measure, prolonged breastfeeding, which strengthens the baby's immunity, can be called. In addition, the more the child breathes fresh air, the better his nutrition, the more seasoned he is, the less likely he is to pick up a roseola. If the baby's body is weakened, it is better to limit his contacts with strangers. Everyone can be infected with the herpes virus, but not everyone will result in a disease. Let it be so for you and your children!