Other Causes of rash:
o Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSS)
o Meningococcal infection:
Bluish/purple splotches, sudden high fever, cills, severe headache, stiff neck and back, and confusion caused by bacterium meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis.
o Rocky mountain spotted fever:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)is a fatal tick-borne disease that is classically marked by fever, myalgias, headache, and a petechial rash caused by Rickettsia rickettsii.
o Systemic Lupus Erythematosus:
A connective tissue disease of unknown cause that occurs chiefly in women characterized by fever, skin rash, arthritis, acute hemolytic anemia, small hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes, inflammation of the pericardium, and in serious cases by involvement of the kidneys and central nervous system.
o Kawasaki Disease:
An acute febrile disease of unknown cause affecting especially infants and children.
o Erythema Nodosum:
Small tender reddened nodules under the skin, as over the shin bones, accompanied by fever and transitory arthritic pains.
o Dermatitis herpetiformis:
Eruption of itching papules, vesicles, and lesions resembling hives typically in clusters.
o Erythema multiforme:
A skin disease characterized by papular or vesicular lesions and reddening or discoloration of the skin often in concentric zones, target shape, about the lesions.
o Folliculitis (Inflammation of one or more follicles especially of the hair)
o Granuloma annulare:
A benign chronic skin rash marked by one or more flat spreading ring-like spots with lighter centers especially on the feet, legs, hands, or fingers.
o Hidradenitis suppurativa:
A chronic suppurative inflammatory disease of the apocrine sweat glands.
o Pemphigus:
Any of several autoimmune skin diseases marked by the formation of successive eruptions of large blisters on apparently normal skin and mucous membranes often in association with sensations of itching or burning.
o Swimmer's itch:
Itching invasion of the skin by schistosomes that are not normally parasites of humans; called also schistosome dermatitis.
o Toxic shock syndrome:
Acute ever, nausea, diarrhea, diffuse erythema, and shock associated especially with the presence of a bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus (S. aureus), and that occurs especially in menstruating females using tampons;called also toxic shock.
o Lyme Disease:
An infectious disease that is usually starts by the skin lesion erythema migrans and fatigue, fever, and chills and if left untreated may later present itself in cardiac and neurological disorders, joint pain, and arthritis. The causative agent is a spirochete of the genus Borrelia (B. burgdorferi) transmitted by the bite of a tick especially of the genus Ixodes; called also Lyme, Lyme borreliosis.
o Lichen Planus:
A skin disease characterized by wide flat papule eruptions covered by a horny glazed film, and marked by intense itching and lesions on the oral mucosa.
o Psoriasis:
A chronic skin disease marked by circumscribed red patches covered with white scales.