A mum from Llandudno is urging other parents to be aware of the symptoms of Strep A infections after her two daughters contracted scarlet fever. Joanne Jones' eight-year-old daughter Jasmine started feeling unwell with a cough, which she initially mistook for a chest infection. However, her symptoms got progressively worse.
“Then it turned into some kind of sickness bug, so I thought she had one of those 24-hour things. But after four days of hardly eating, I knew it wasn’t just a bug. At times she seemed OK. Then her temperature would spike to 40 degrees," Joanne told North Wales Live.
“She would go bright red, and it felt like I was holding a hot water bottle from the heat coming off her face, back, and chest. Then she got more and more drowsy nearing the end of the week, to the point she just couldn’t stop coughing.
