Secondary Rashes in Scarlet Fever

Secondary rashes during the convalescent stage ot scarlet fever are by no means of uncommon occurrence. They are not to be confounded with the true relapse in which the patient passes again through the stages of vomiting, sore-throat, strawberry tongue, rash, and desquamation. Such relapses are said to occur as frequently as once in every two hundred cases, are most common during the second or third week of the illness, and are seldom severe in character. The eczema consequent upon irritating discharges from the nose or ears, and which frequently in children results in impetigo, is as a rule, unless indeed it spread to the head, easily controlled.