What do the measles look like?

Question:

my daughter has little red bumps on her stomach and on her chest and some on her back and starting on her legs and feet.

Answers:
Measles starts out with non-specific symptoms such as cough, a stuffy nose, and bilateral red eyes, as well as mild fever, and then a rash appears on the face and neck, and spreads down onto the torso. The little lymph-nodes in front of and behind the ears may also be swollen.
Look inside the mouth, little white spots on the cheek mucosa are pathognemonic for measles (ie diagnostic; called 'Koplik spots').

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Symptoms of measles:
* Cold-like symptoms, such as runny nose, watery eyes, swollen eyelids, and sneezing;
* Red eyes and sensitivity to light;
* A mild to severe temperature, which may peak over 38°C (100.4°F) for several days. After several days temperature may fall, but may go up again when the rash appears.
* Tiny greyish-white spots (called Koplik's spots) in the mouth and throat;
* Tiredness, irritability and general lack of energy;
* Aches and pains;
* Poor appetite;
* Dry cough;
* Red-brown spotty rash that appears 3-4 days after first symptoms and last for up to 7 days. The spots usually start behind the ears, spread around the head and neck and after 2-3 days to the legs and around the rest of the body. The spots start small but quickly get bigger and often join up together. Similar looking rashes may be mistaken for measles, but measles has a range of symptoms, not just a red rash.

Another disease with similar type of rashes is chicken pox.
Chickenpox in children usually starts with a slight fever and feeling unwell, sometimes with mild flu-like symptoms. A rash then appears in patches, usually behind the ears, under the arms, on the chest and stomach, and the arms and legs.

The rash is made up of small, itchy, red spots that turn into fluid-filled blisters within a few hours. They then dry out to form scabs in a day or two. Patches of spots continue to appear for up to six days. Chickenpox is normally a very mild illness in children.
Source(s):
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=97§ionId=12654

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