Roseola Virus

Jacob has now gone to see a medical professional for the third time this week. What started off being diagnosed as one virus has now either turned into another one or is just a continuance of the first one… (a little unclear) The first and second diagnosis was for more of just a cold virus, but it has now turned into/is the roseloa virus. We noticed that Jacob’s skin was breaking out more than normal and was different yesterday. It was much worse this morning, so Amy called the doctor at 7:30 am and they said to get him in there at 8:15 am. He hasn’t had a fever in a couple of days and we were thinking we were out of the woods, or so we thought.

Upon arrival and a few questions, the doctor immediately new what virus Jacob has. The breaking out/rash is a symptom or the course of the roseola virus. The name stems from the fact that the child’s skin is rosy. Since the fever has subsided, he is in the mildly contagious stage and should be back to normal in one to five days. He is definitely in the later stages of the virus, which is good news for us. Jacob displayed many, if not all of the symptoms, but the timing of everything is off, some longer, some shorter, etc.