Question: Hello doctor - my son (5 months old) has been having what appears like rashes / heat burns / boils / heat pricks over the past few weeks. They keep appearing and disappearing on different parts of the body. It has appeared on his scalp, wrist, thighs, cheeks, legs and so on. We are applying calak lotion and he generally does not seem to be in trouble with these. I am attaching a picture of the latest one on his leg that has gone slightly worse (a drop of blood came out from it yesterday). Could you please take a look and suggest if I need to be concerned about this? Thanks much for your advise in advance.

Thanks for the quick reply doctor. I have a few follow-up questions:

1- I am currently applying Calak (calamine lotion). Is this OK? If not, could you please recommend what is best?

2- We did start giving him food apart from breast milk. We started with Milk Bikis (biscuits) once a day. He is having the biscuits without much of a difficulty. Should we stop this or try another option? Please advise.

3- Because of the bleeding (as i said, a drop came from the bleeding spot yesterday), I was checking on his Tetanus injections. His second dose was given at 4 months (on 11th April 2015). Hope this is OK?

Apart from these, indeed there has been few mosquito bites lately. We are trying to keep him away from these, but is there any precaution that we can do? (any anti repellant lotion recommended? or is he too young to try all those?)

Thanks much again.

Parvath