"Diagnosis concerns"

I am writing to raise awareness for a misdiagnosis of my toddler in the hopes that further education can be done to prevent this happening to a child in future. Our child had what appeared to be the start of a rash spreading on their face, the Doctor very quickly diagnosed this as ezcema and advised to treat with steroid cream which was provided at the time. In my opinion the rash did not look like ezcema as our child does suffer from this from time to time and there was some mild evidence of this on their legs which looked very different to the spots on their face.

Having trusted the drs diagnosis while I was at work my partner applied the steroid which after only one use severally exacerbated the rash, requiring another visit to our GP  where the rash had tripled in size on my toddler's face, swabs were taken but still no cause was confirmed.

The rash eventually developed into a staph infection so it is unknown what was the original cause but the steroid use exacerbated the original rash and I feel was too quickly diagnosed and ruled out as anything further and treated correctly. In hindsight I should have been at the appointment but my partner trusted the Doctors diagnosis, hopefully in future a rash on a young child's face should have been reviewed by a second Doctor if the first Doctor was unsure of the cause.  I appreciate Doctors can make mistakes but treating with steroid cream on such a young child has had severe consequences.