What strep A symptoms should parents watch for? • A fever for more than five days in a child of any age. • Fever with either a fine red rash (skin texture like sandpaper), full body rash like ...

What is Strep A and what are the symptoms to ... including a fine pink-red rash that feels like sandpaper to touch, and parents should contact their GP. "The best thing that parents can do is ...

Some people develop scarlet fever, which causes a skin rash that feels like sandpaper, and flu-like symptoms including a high temperature. Very rarely, strep A can cause invasive Group A ...

Parents are being warned to look out for the symptoms of scarlet fever after the death of a sixth child in the UK from Strep A ... with the rash said to feel like sandpaper.