Research

Well you know the saying if it is to good to be true it probably is.  I wish this wasn't the case especially since we are talking about my beautiful sweet little boy.  I went home and diligently researched Pustular Melanosis hoping that I was going to get to call YaYa and tell her they were right.

Pustular Melanosis happens at birth or it happens while pregnant.  You notice it at birth.  The spots will be pustular and very fragile or broken spots with a brown mark in the middle.  They break very easy and so you may never see a pustule, because they break during delivery.  When the spots break they may have a white circle of skin with a brown dot in the middle.  It kinda of looks like a freckle.  These spots slowly fade.  You should see improvement in 3 weeks and they will be gone in 3 months.  So basically you have to live with it for 3 months and then it is gone.  Not a bad thing right?  Sounds pretty good huh?

Well here is the problem with this diagnosis.  Max had only one or two spots at birth.  If this is supposed to have all the spots at birth than this is problem one.  Max does have pustules, but pustules have been there for at least 2 weeks.  The above mentioned pustules are suppose to be delicate and should pop upon contact.  Max's are on his neck and I have touched the on purpose and by accident and they are still there.  That is problem two.  The spots should have started with a white skin circle around them and not just brown spots.  Max has never had white skin circles.  That is problem three.  These should all be spots.  You know spots that are round.  Max has round spots and more oval like spots that has no defined edges.  That is problem four.  The last issue is these spots are suppose to be benign.  If you scratch one of Max's spots it turns red like a hive and then turns it into a blister.  This is problem five.

I don't know how this could be even close.  With five issues with this diagnosis I am going to go ahead and rule it out.  I would have been the best diagnosis I could have hoped for, but alas it was not to be.  I am sad for my boy.  The one who is having to live with these spots.