Long story short - My 18 month old has knee cracking, wrist cracking, and ankle cracking. The pedi took note of this when he felt her knees cracking at her 12 month check-up, but said it was fine for now.

My 8 month old has ankle and knee cracking.

Back story - I have rheumatoid arthritis and so does my mother and maternal grandmother and a few other family members.
My biological father has Lupus and so does his father and grandmother.
I'm just worried about my children having to face these things...



Also, my daughter has very red cheeks a lot of the time. This doesn't look like a 'butterfly' or lupus rash, right? This started 3 months ago and they fade at times, but they usually look similar to these pictures:






Rash (this is on her stomach):

my kids pop to i even asked my dr and he said it was normal as for the rash it looks like a heat rash but i could be wrong

Quoting Alicia Holz:" my kids pop to i even asked my dr and he said it was normal as for the rash it looks like a heat rash but i could be wrong"

I had it checked out and was told it was fifths disease and the other pedi said it was a drug reaction. However, it's been months now and she had no other signs of fifths disease and she's been off of that medication for months.

I wish we had heat though to get a heat rash. Thirteen below zero here. Woo!

<blockquote><b>Quoting Kait.:</b>" I had it checked out and was told it was fifths disease and the other pedi said it was a drug reaction. ... [snip!] ... she's been off of that medication for months. I wish we had heat though to get a heat rash. Thirteen below zero here. Woo!"</blockquote>




brr yeah its cold here to..yeah i was wondering and looked it up..maybe it came back

Quoting Alicia Holz:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Kait.:</b>" I had it checked out and was told it was fifths ... [snip!] ... zero here. Woo!"</blockquote> brr yeah its cold here to..yeah i was wondering and looked it up..maybe it came back"

It never went away. The best it ever looks is the second picture  

well looked it up some more and no answers what i got was the rash only lasts 1-3 weeks which is way short for your daughter and once you have had it you should be immune to it or its very rare to get it again