I’m flapping about this strep a situation. I do have mild health anxiety and I have been thinking about it all day. Baby girl has had like little white head spots on her cheeks for a couple of days which I didn’t think much of, but in a Facebook group someone said a face rash/spots is a symptom. She has been a bit snotty today too.
So I don’t know if this will make you feel better but both my baby and my 3yo, plus me and my husband all currently have strep a. And no it’s not nice when they’re poorly, but we’re okay in the grand scheme of things. Lots of calpol / neurofen, we’ve watched a lot of tv and done very little for a few days and are now over the worse of it. I think the media are really hyping it up and it’s really important to put the numbers into perspective. It is very sad for the 10 children that have died and I am not trying to minimise that. But if you look back at 2017/2018, there were 4/5 deaths a year from strep a then. And if you look at infection rates, there have been over four times as many children catching it (2.3 per 100,000 this year as opposed to pre covid levels of 0.5 per 100,000). So in a way, that’s a lower percentage of children with strep a dying from it than in previous years. So it’s not a new thing, and the chances of serious illness and death are very very low. But that doesn’t make people click on daily Mail links so they like to write dramatic headlines that panic parents
ETA: how old is baby? The white spots sound like something called milia, sometimes called milk spots. Totally normal
I’ll start again from this page 
