My child had what I assumed was ringworm, as a random large spot on the back of her thigh, she was also sick at the time with ongoing high fevers, chills, headaches, aches and pains and exhaustion and crying. We didn't link the two. After a few days of this I did a urine dip test which came back positive for blood, leukocytes and protein, so i spoke to doctor we all assumed asymptomatic UTI and got trimethroprim. 4 days of taking that, and 8 days after the fevers started, she isn't any better, fevers hitting 39c (102.2f) every day, and hard to control with normal child meds. And today new spots appeared, sort of oval and pinkish coloured on her torso and back and arms. I read up and realised that the initial large spot was probably a herald spot and this looked exactly like pityriasis rosea. is this causing the fevers and aches? And if so, when will it stop? And is the dip tests on the urine just a weird coincidence on the side? Does she have both? or is the pityriasis rosea a symptom of something else happening? prior to the fevers, she also had a bad virus, cold/flu symptoms, with a blocked nose, cough etc. Normal childhood stuff.
She's always been quite healthy, never needed antibiotics prior to this, so I'm pretty worried. The culture for the urine will be back in a couple of days.