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Dr.Patel serves as Center Medical Director and a Primary Care Physician at Oak Street Health in Arizona. She graduated from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine prior to working in clinical research focused on preventive medicine at the University of Illinois and the University of Nevada. Dr. Patel earned her MSc in Global Health from Georgetown University, during which she worked with the WHO in Sierra Leone and Save the Children in Washington, D.C. She went on to complete her Family Medicine residency in Chicago at Norwegian American Hospital before completing a fellowship in Leadership in Value-based Care in conjunction with the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, where she earned her MBA. Dr. Patel’s interests include health tech and teaching medical students and she currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Medicine.

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  • Canker sores

  • Increase in dandruff

  • Cold sore

  • Fever then no fever then fever again

  • Chancre

  • Skin peeling

  • Periodic fever (>100.4°F / 38°C)

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What is Scarlet Fever?

Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection (group A streptococcus) most common in children and teenagers. It causes redness and rashes with a pale area around the mouth. Modern antibiotics have made it less dangerous, but quick treatment is still important. It often comes with a sore throat and high fever.

Typical Symptoms of Scarlet Fever

  • Skin over the entire body is red

  • Bumpy rash that started on the neck, then spread to the rest of the body

  • Spots in mouth

  • Fever

  • Scaly skin that flakes off

  • Strawberry tongue

  • Black/blue/brown spots or moles, on the skin and lining of the mouth

  • Sore throat

Doctor's Diagnostic Questionson Scarlet Fever

Your doctor may ask these questions to check for this disease:

  • Is your whole body red?

  • Did the skin bump start at the neck and spread to the whole body?

  • Do you have mouth sores?

  • Do you have a fever?

  • Do you have flaky, scaly skin?

Treatmentof Scarlet Fever

Antibiotics are used to treat scarlet fever, and it's important to finish the full prescribed course as directed by your doctor.

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References

  • Managing scarlet fever. Drug Ther Bull. 2017 Sep;55(9):102. doi: 10.1136/dtb.2017.8.0529. PMID: 28882851.

    https://dtb.bmj.com/content/55/9/102.2

  • Scarlet fever. Nurs Stand. 2016 Apr 27;30(35):17. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.35.17.s20. PMID: 27191292.

    http://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/scarlet-fever-ns.30.35.17.s20

  • Scarlet fever. Nurs Stand. 2014 May 20;28(37):20. doi: 10.7748/ns.28.37.20.s21. PMID: 24823566.

    https://rcnpublishing.com/doi/abs/10.7748/ns.28.37.20.s21

  • Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. Managing scarlet fever. BMJ. 2018 Aug 30;362:k3005. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3005. PMID: 30166279.

    https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3005

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Reviewed By:

Unnati Patel, MD, MSc

Unnati Patel, MD, MSc (Family Medicine)

Dr.Patel serves as Center Medical Director and a Primary Care Physician at Oak Street Health in Arizona. She graduated from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine prior to working in clinical research focused on preventive medicine at the University of Illinois and the University of Nevada. Dr. Patel earned her MSc in Global Health from Georgetown University, during which she worked with the WHO in Sierra Leone and Save the Children in Washington, D.C. She went on to complete her Family Medicine residency in Chicago at Norwegian American Hospital before completing a fellowship in Leadership in Value-based Care in conjunction with the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, where she earned her MBA. Dr. Patel’s interests include health tech and teaching medical students and she currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Arizona School of Medicine.

Yoshinori Abe, MD

Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal Medicine)

Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.

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