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"Symptoms include low fever, fatigue, a "slapped cheeks" rash, joint aches, and a whole body rash."
Fifth disease can also also appear without rash and affect the bone marrow causing low platelet counts followed by anemia:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1660551
Blood picture findings in children with Parvovirus B19 infections (fifth disease/erythema infectiosum).
Wiersbitzky S1, Schwarz TF, Ladstätter L, Bruns R, Abel E, Deinhardt F, Roggendorf M, Paul W, Jäger G, Hottenträger B, et al.
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The human parvovirus B19 provokes erythema infectiosum ("e.i."); moreover there is a wide range of diseases due to parvovirus B19 without exanthema/rash. The erythropoietic blast cells of the bone marrow seems to be the main target cells for this virus. Therefore in cases of prenatal infection the consequences are extremely similar to fetal erythroblastosis ("non-immunological" fetal hydrops). In postnatal life the parvovirus B19 infection causes hyporegenerative phases of the erythropoiesis with anaemia after 3-4 weeks. We studied the white blood cell count (WBC), erythrocytes and thrombocytes in children suffering from (serologically well documented) parvovirus B19 infection with exanthem/"e.i." (group 1; n = 23), without exanthem (group 2; n = 46) and with unknown febrile exanthematous rashes (group 3; n = 76). We did not find any characteristic data in the WBC for a diagnosis of parvovirus B19 infection. However we have for the first time documented a significant thrombocytopenia in "e.i." (group 1) not found in group 2. The thrombocytopenia appears earlier than the anaemia, because the lifespan of thrombocytes is considerably shorter than that of erythrocytes. These data suggest that parvovirus B19 attacks not only "erythropoietic" blast cells but also immature bone marrow cells, which are later responsible for the thrombocytopoiesis.
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/961063-clinical
Parvovirus B19 Infection Clinical Presentation
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Clinical Conditions Associated with Parvovirus B19
Most persons with parvovirus B19 infection are asymptomatic or exhibit mild, nonspecific, cold-like symptoms that are never linked to the virus.6 However, clinical conditions associated with the infection include erythema infectiosum; arthropathy; transient aplastic crisis; chronic red cell aplasia; papular, purpuric eruptions on the hands and feet (“gloves and socks” syndrome); and hydrops fetalis. Conditions postulated to have a link to parvovirus B19 infection include encephalopathy, epilepsy, meningitis, myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy, and autoimmune hepatitis.6
www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0201/p373.html
If this is Parvovirus B19, it probably isn't the cause of the child's thrombocytopenia, especially as the timing may be off. However, this is a possibility, and well worth keeping in mind should new symptoms (e.g., signs of anemia, rash) develop. Thrombocytopenia caused by Parvovirus B19 would not, of course, be autoimmune and would no longer be considered ITP.
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My kids had Fifth's Disease too and they were very sick for longer than one day. At any rate, it seems to be gone so there is nothing left to diagnose.
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