My 1-year-old daughter currently is suffering from roseola. She had been diagnosed with double ear infections just last week at her 1-year checkup and was placed on amoxicillin. She has not had a fever but did not want to eat. She drank lots of fluids and never acted as if she was ill. She did want to be held all the time and would only sleep if she was in my bed. I am not a believer in kids sleeping with the parents, but she was sick, so I allowed her to sleep with me until she was out cold. I noticed that she had three small bumps on her tummy, and then they went away that night. But the next morning, she had a huge rash all over her back. I freaked out, talked to my sister who is nurse practitioner, and she said that it sounded like roseola. I was OK until the next morning when it was on her tummy, neck, parts of her arms and legs and face. Then I really lost it. Took her to urgent care and the nurse had no idea what it was. So I took her back to see my sister, and she told me to calm down: She said it was, in fact, roseola. I have started using Witch Hazel to clean the rash and put Cortisone on it. That seems to calm her down and make her feel a little better.

My experience with roseola was frightening. My grand baby's fever spiked to 105.9. I thought she would start seizures or her brain would cook. I have never seen anything like it. The doctors told me exactly how it would go and they were right. Fevers lasted 4 days, when they stop at 4 days the rash starts and last 4 days as of now we are on day 3 of the rash. On top of the fever I was scared of dehydration. I couldn't get her to eat or drink anything not even a popsicle. She is 17 months old and during all the tests they did on her we learned she has an enlarged heart. Now I have to take her to children's hospital cardiology tomorrow.

My 26 month old was just diagnosed today with Roseola. She'd had an ear infection and was on antibiotics so honestly my husband and I didn't think too much when she developed a fever of 103.9 we gave her a dose of Tylenol and it lowered some. A few hours later it kept rising, then set in the vomiting, fussiness, diarrhea, loss of appetite...we began to worry. We took her to the ER where they said it's the side effects of her antibiotics. Over the next 2 days things got much worse and our poor daughter hadn't slept or been eating. She walked up to her father and pointed at her arm and said "boo boo"... she had developed this horrible red and white blotchy rash. Instinct we dose up with benadryl and go back ER, where they claim it an allergic reaction and send us home with no meds nothing. Frustrated I Googled all the symptoms and called her DR. and said look I think my daughter has Roseola, she tells me there's no possible way because my daughter had the MMR vaccine when she was 15mos old. to bring her in first thing in the morning and we will get to the bottom of things....guess the vaccine isn't 100%.

My son is about 19 months. He had a fever for about 3 days that we thought was from teething. He was given Motrin as needed then fever broke. About 24 hours later he started showing rash and lesions all over his body. Doctor quickly diagnosed it as Roseola and said he would get better in about 3-4 more days. He is doing rather well. Still has rash on day 4 and little appetite, but is drinking lots. Good to know it's nothing serious.

Our daughter is 14 months old. She woke up in the middle of the night with a very high fever which we thought was due to teething. So we put cold rags on her and gave her some liquid Tylenol. Day 2 her fever had gone up so we took her to an urgent care walk in clinic as we were out of town on vacation. The dr said her fever was 102.5 and diagnosed her with an ear infection and prescribed amoxicillin. Day 3 she seemed even worse and was very lethargic like, whimpering, shaking from the fever and would not eat or drink much. Would also throw up her milk at times. So we rushed home to her pediatrician who told us right away that she had a virus called Roseola. She told us all of her symptoms and behavior are normal and sent us home with Ibuprofen. Our daughter did not want to do anything but sleep and be held and was very weak from the lack of food in her body. We constantly offered her water and milk to keep her hydrated. Sure enough, her fever broke on day 5 and the red rash started to appear on her face, Stomach and back. She started eating and drinking more and even smiling and crawling a bit! Today is day 6 and her rash came on a bit stronger but she is fever free and getting her strength back each day but does want to sleep a lot. We hope her rash will be gone in a couple of days and she will be her normal happy, energetic self again and can enjoy life!