Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cheek Update

If you have been around Lauren lately you know that she has developed some (or what look like) bumps on her cheek. They developed before Thanksgiving and almost look like pimples or baby acne.

This is Lauren at Christmas and you can see the two bumps on her (left) cheek.

At her 15 month checkup we asked the doctor about them and she thought it was some kind of bacteria. So we were instructed to put some sort of ointment on them for ten days but that yielded no results. Wondering what in the world these things were (because they were not moving, changing in size and had been there two months) we made an appointment with a dermatologist.
We learned that they really aren't "bumps". They are flush with the skin, you can't feel "a bump" it just looks like there is "a bump." They are actually the result of a dilated blood vessel that is close to the skin. So I guess we could call them two little red spots. There is no treatment unless we want to get them lazered off (which would require her to be put under anesthesia). Um yah, no thank you. Fifty percent of the time they disappear by age 15 and at that time if she still has 'the spots' she can choose to have them lazered off (since she would be able to hold still for the procedure it wouldn't require anesthesia). So for now, it just adds to her uniqueness...and maybe they will go away on their own... or maybe not. She's still the cutest little chunky-munk that I've ever seen! :)

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