Natalie with Roseola in October

Poor Natalie also contacted Roseola somehow. Even though we pretty much where only home or going a few places like the grocery store with the kids, Natalie caught a virus called Roseola. It's fairly common in children 6mo-2 years old. It starts off with 3-7 days of fever and followed by a rash on the upper torso that is not ichy. There is no medication for this other than to just treat the child with the fever symptoms. Poor Natalie had a fever for 5 days straight. I took her to the doctor the fever started off on a Wednesday night and I took her to see her pediatrician on Thursday. Since she didn't have any other obvious symptoms we waited till Monday to see if she would get the tell tale signs of the Roseola rash. Finally, she got the rash on Tuesday at about 11:00AM and I say finally because that afternoon she would have had to get a blood draw to try to determine the cause of her 5+ days of fever. The fever subsided just as the rash was appearing. She had the rash for a week and didn't seem to be bothered by it on her torso, but was bothered by it on her scalp. I rubbed coconut oil on her head hoping the oil would add some moisture to her scalp and make it less dry and bothersome. Thankfully, Charlotte and Ava were too old to be contact the virus.

                                                          Natalie's back with the roseola rash.

                                                  With unrefined organic coconut on her head.

She was understandably not a happy camper during this illness. Here is a picture of the rash on her forehead and scalp. I had given her a piece of chocolate at the time to help cheer her up.