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A rash, an itch, or something going around at home: find the right page
The pages on this site about a rash, an itch, head lice, or an illness one person at home may pass to the next were hard to find together: most sit on the list for a baby or child, and one sits with the pages on getting older. This page puts 16 of them on one list, sorted by what is going on. Pick one and it opens. Each line below is that page’s own description.
If you think someone’s life is in danger, call 911 now. This page is a list. It cannot look at a rash, and it cannot tell you how serious something is.
Our severe allergic reaction page is for a tight throat, a swollen tongue, hives all over or trouble breathing after a food, a sting or a medicine. It starts with what to do.
Type a word or two, like blisters, itch, school or wash. Nothing you type here is kept or sent.
Something is happening right now
These are the site’s first-aid pages. They are about more than skin.
- When it might be a severe allergic reactionA tight throat, a swollen tongue, hives all over or trouble breathing after a food, a sting or a medicine, yours or someone else’s; a first reaction; epinephrine you are afraid to use, or can’t afford; or a child with a serious allergy. Keeps nothing.
- When someone is burnedA hand on the stove, a spilled coffee, a child in a hot bath, a cleaner on the skin, a shock from a cord, clothes that caught fire, a bad sunburn. Keeps nothing.
- First aid: what do you see?One page to find the right first-aid page fast. Keeps nothing.
A rash, blisters, an itch or head lice
Four of these six were written about a baby or child. The shingles page and the scabies page are for any age.
- Chickenpox in a baby or child: the signs, what helps at home, who can get very sick, and when to callFor anyone looking after a baby or child with chickenpox, or with an itchy, blistering rash that may be it. Keeps nothing.
- Shingles: the signs, the first three days, the pain that can stay, who can catch what, the vaccine, and when to callFor anyone with a painful rash on one side of the body or face that may be shingles, or looking after someone who has it. Keeps nothing.
- Hand, foot, and mouth disease in a baby or child: the signs, what helps, and when to callFor anyone looking after a child with a fever, sores in the mouth, or a rash on the hands and feet. Keeps nothing.
- Scabies in a child or anyone at home: the signs, the treatment, who else is treated, what to wash, and when to callFor anyone with an itch that may be scabies, or looking after a child, a parent or a housemate who has it. Keeps nothing.
- Head lice in a child: how to check, how to treat, and what school can askFor anyone looking after a child who has head lice, or who came home with a note about them. Keeps nothing.
- Eczema in a baby or child: the signs, the daily skin routine, flares, and when to talk to a doctorFor anyone looking after a baby or child with eczema (atopic dermatitis), or with an itchy rash that may be it. Keeps nothing.
Other sick days, each with a part on keeping it from spreading
All four were written about a baby or child.
- Pink eye in a baby or child: what the signs suggest, what helps, and when to callFor anyone looking after a child with a pink, red or sticky eye. Keeps nothing.
- Sore throat in a child: a virus or strep, what helps, and when to callFor anyone looking after a child with a sore throat. Keeps nothing.
- Cough or cold in a baby or child: what helps, the medicine ages, and when to callFor anyone looking after a baby or child with a cough or a cold. Keeps nothing.
- Vomiting and diarrhea in a baby or child: fluids, and when to callFor anyone looking after a baby or child who is throwing up or has diarrhea, at any hour. Keeps nothing.
Before you call or go in
These three are for anyone’s appointment or call. They were not made for rashes.
- Symptom diary: write it down, show your doctorWrite down what you notice when it happens, with your own number from 0 to 10. What you type is kept only in this browser.
- Get ready for your appointmentTen minutes before you go: what has been happening, your medicines, your questions and what helps you, on one page to hand to your doctor, therapist or psychiatrist, with room to write down the plan. What you type is kept only in this browser.
- Call script: know what you will say before you dialA phone call you keep putting off? Write who you are calling, the sentence that says what you want, what to have ready and what to ask. What you type is kept only in this browser.
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Good to know
What these pages are
- All 16 were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast. No doctor, nurse or pharmacist has reviewed them.
- The health guides pass on what named public sources say, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each guide names the sources it was built from.
- Every line on this list is copied from the page it points to when this list is built. This list adds no health facts of its own.
- Being on this list does not mean a thing is catching. This list does not say what spreads and what does not. Where a page has a part on that, its line says so.
- They are for the United States: the phone numbers and the offices are U.S. ones.
What this page can’t do
- It is not medical advice. It cannot look at a rash, tell one rash from another, or tell you whether to wait or to go in.
- It does not have every subject. There is no page here yet for impetigo, ringworm, poison ivy, diaper rash, measles, bed bugs, or hives on their own.
- Most of the pages about an illness here were written about a baby or child. The names on the list say which.
- It does not replace a doctor, nurse line, pharmacist or clinic. If something feels wrong to you, call them.
Pages that go with this
- A baby or child: find the right page: the longer list for anyone looking after a baby or child.
- All the free tools, and search.
- The phone list: the helplines the guides lead with, on one page.
- Pass it on: any of these pages as a code to show or a slip to print.
This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The names and lines of the 16 pages are read from the pages’ own descriptions when this page is built. The page was checked by programs, not yet used by people. It runs no analytics or tracking (privacy). Also in Spanish: Un sarpullido, una picazón o algo que se contagia en casa. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].