How is three-day-fever different from other childhood diseases?
It’s important that parents of small children know the disease and its characteristic symptoms. It’s necessary to distinguish it from other children’s diseases, particularly measles. • Three-day-fever does not begin with cold-like symptoms, as measles does. At first there’s only a high temperature. • In measles, the temperature runs high again when the rash appears. With three-day-fever, the temperature drops to normal when the rash appears. • The rash characteristically begins on the body and seldom appears on the face. Both measles and German measles appear on the face to begin with.
