Son's scarlet fever symptoms ignored: Mt Warrigal mum

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated April 25 2017 - 6:26am, first published April 24 2017 - 6:00pm
Health concerns: Claudia Garbayo with her children Amara, 4, and Cohen, 3, who are recovering from scarlet fever. She's upset that Cohen was initially misdiagnosed and only treated for a skin condition. Picture: Sylvia Liber
Health concerns: Claudia Garbayo with her children Amara, 4, and Cohen, 3, who are recovering from scarlet fever. She's upset that Cohen was initially misdiagnosed and only treated for a skin condition. Picture: Sylvia Liber

A Mount Warrigal mother is seeing red after her three-year-old son was misdiagnosed with severe dermatitis when he was in fact suffering from scarlet fever.

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