Scarlet Fever is when Strep is missed and it progresses. As strep will progress without symptoms on occasion it happens more frequently than you know.

I know, fark is no place for facts as that sucks the fun out of anything.

/going to be logical somewhere else

This is not fun. The son of a coworker got it, and he's not happy right now.

My son nearly died of it about 7 years ago. There was another child in our town that wasn't so lucky about 4 days before. :(

I got strep about 10 times as a child, scarlet once. Not fun. I think I missed about 30 days a year throughout elementary school.

Now that I'm an adult with paid sick time, I can't get sick to save my life. Dammit.

Symptoms include a sunburn-like rash, red lines on the skin, and a bumpy tongue

Not to mention the kidney, liver, and heart valve damage.

Oh, doctor, doctor...where will I go? What will I do?

/side effects may include rhettness at "injection site"

NikolaiFarkoff: I got strep about 10 times as a child, scarlet once. Not fun. I think I missed about 30 days a year throughout elementary school.

Now that I'm an adult with paid sick time, I can't get sick to save my life. Dammit.

I had it when I was young. Does that make you immune?

/...wait, what?

I hated that farking book.

gambitsgirl: Scarlet Fever is when Strep is missed and it progresses. As strep will progress without symptoms on occasion it happens more frequently than you know.

I know, fark is no place for facts as that sucks the fun out of anything.

/going to be logical somewhere else

Ummm, this. Its not uncommon. And a breakout of 3 means there are like, 20 kids who have strep. Oh no. Its an epidemic.

There's only one prescription.

I had scarlet fever when I was ten. Granted, I'm old, but that was in 1977.

TheBitterest: If only there was an easy affordable way for low income families to get adequate health care.

Oh Christ on a cracker. Seriously? When I got it, I had great health care. That doesn't matter. Strep can turn into scarlet fever quickly, even WITH health care. I was already on meds for the strep and it still turned into SF.

I had Chicken Pox at 21 and am now probably sterile so I'm really getting...achy and shivery reading these replies.

I have Scarlett fever.

Thanks Jenny McCarthy!

I had Scarlet Fever when I was a child, I somehow caught it after having bacterial spinal meniegits.... To say that year sucked in my life was an understatement.

MemeSlave: Keep giving your kids antibiotics for sniffles, so that all the germs out there become increasingly resistant!

Or wait until the last minute to take your kid to the doctor because you don't have health insurance.

TheBitterest: If only there was an easy affordable way for low income families to get adequate health care.

Oh for heaven's sake, my two little brothers got Scarlet fever back in the late 1970s and my family had excellent Blue Cross coverage.

The only thing I remember about it was that about a week after the fever was gone and they were up and out of bed the skin on their fingers started blistering and then peeling off. It was sort of hanging in strips (doctor said it was normal for scarlet fever) and it grossed me out. Being the Big Sister they had to listen to me, and I forbade them from sitting at the table with me to eat unless they wore gloves.

I almost died from a bought of Jungle Fever. And a separate bout of Yellow Fever.

Mugato: I have Scarlett fever.

came for this

in my pants