I tell you what those rashes really are.

Last 2 weeks ago, didi landed up being sick and had to refrain from school. It wasn't a big issue, fortunately, nothing a few bottles of medicine and antibiotics couldn't do. He was back at school the next day.

A week after, the school called me up and told me it was korkor's turn. He felt itchy all over his arms, thighs and back that he wanted to see the doctor and get some ailment. I dropped my gym bag and went straight to pick him up. While I was there, I checked the other 2 as well, and meimei had the same symptoms, so fetched her along for the ride too.

We went straight to the doctor, and she only said 1 word - food allergy! (or is that 2 words?) I can't fathom what caused the allergy since there wasn't anything new that we ate or did. Anyway.

She gave some ointment to for itch relief and a bottle of calamine. We went home and they showered then popped the pill/ medicine and applied the cream. The kids were relieved, but not for long.

The itch stayed for a couple of days, in fact, a little more than that, and it not only began to irritate them, it was annoying me too! I had to help them apply the calamine lotion every now and then until I felt lazy to go wash my hands all the freaking time! Over dinner outside in a restoran that weekend, we were so "un-appetizingly" applying the calamine on meimei's feet particularly every 5 mins or so! I felt so sorry for the other patrons at that time. Hope noone snap picture and then blog about how insensitive we were! Yikes! The medicine didn't seem to work at all, darn!

But what I observed, the red bumpy spots happened to move from the arms to the hands and from the thighs to the calves and then later to the feet, and another day later to their fingers and toes. hmmm.....

So, I had a theory. This is what I told them

It must had been some little worms wriggling in them. They somehow made the skin itches so much that the person had to scratch and made it red with blood gushing down to that part of the skin. So when the blood comes, it sucks and live on it and PARTAY-ed! And hence, they multiplied, had babies, the number became even more and more! Korkor said - they must have lived just right under the skin! Oh yes, I said, they are, right on!

But when the calamine lotion is applied, it's cooling, no more scratches, so they had no choice but to move downwards, right until the fingers and toes. And when no more area left to move, they had no choice but to DIE!

Question! Korkor asked. Where did their bodies go then?

Ah! Easy one, I thought. It stays under the skin. That's why the bumps were still there even though it wasn't itchy or red anymore. Ahh.... how enlightened it was to them. But ewwwwww.... it was gross imagining all those "mayat" of those squiggly worms right under their skin.

I had a good time telling the story. Don't I make a better doctor than that whom I paid RM60 to? Food allergy wor, duh! *slap forehead*

The "worms" are all dead now. Whew~