Hello all. I am very worried. My 14 1/2 year old daughter has been getting a little bruise looking purplish rash on her earlobe for about a year. It lasts a few days then goes away completely. It returns every other week, sometimes once a month. I mentioned it to her doctor last year, and he did a cbc, and said it was normal, no need to worry. This week, she had a small one on her face, so I took her to the doctor. They ran a bunch of blood tests. CBC w/diffential, Metabolic panel, Bleeding time, PTT, antinuclear. The doctor said everything looks good, that it is idiopathic, but not ITP because her platelets are NOT low. I was worried about lieukemia. That is why I took her. I want to believe that these things just happen, can you please shed light on this? Please help me, I am so scared. during visit before bloodwork , doctors called it petechiae or purpura, on the internet it was all bad and scary reasons for these. Can these really happen for no reason? They told me no treatment needed.
In my opinion, this would be allergic reaction to some type of food ..
Nothing seems worrisome.
Hi
If CBC is normal then leukemia is out of the picture, I have seen this in sun allergy so I recommend an ultraviolet test to confirm
Good Luck
Hi..
The biggest drawback of internet is that we always see and get worried about the rare and fatal disease which is not always the case and you need not to worry..
As her tests are all normal then it is nothing like Leukemia at all and also not any other critical condition..
It can be simply allergy that must be causing her the rash..
If she wear earrings make her wear of inert metals like gold..
Get her checked for sun allergy or photosensitivity..
Hope this helps..