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Can any doc tell me what's scarlet fever and how does one treat it properly?
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I see cases yearly: Scarlet fever before antibiotics was a truly scary disease. Weeks of high temperature and pealing red skin rash were often followed by major complications. Today it is stopped by treatment. The rash generally starts within 12hrs of a fever with any strain of strep that can make the rash toxin.Treatment kills enough strep to minimize the rash ; shorten the illness.It is called scarletina today.
Answered 4/9/2014
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