Nobody is likely to get this reference to a musical phenominon from the early 90's but I have to try anyway:

"They couldn't quite explain it... it'd always just been there. mmmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm..."

You're right. I don't get it... :(

On another note, his bumps are worse. He doesn't have more of them, but the ones he does have are HUGE! I think I shall take pictures and post a few here...

Well, the song is from the Crash Test Dummies, it was really popular for like a summer in the early 90's and there is a portion of the song where they sing about a girl who wouldn't dress down for PE in school and when they finally made her they found little marks all over her body, and nobody could explain it.

Anyhow, enough of my useless knowledge. Have you considered asking Askville if any of them have seen it before or might know a good sight to research the symptoms on?

They... uh... look kinda like zits to me. Looks kinda like what i had 5 years ago when i hit puberty, except they were more on my wrists, shoulders, and face (bleh! lol) try popping one and see what happens. This is of course coming from me and i know nothing (literally nothing) about these kind of things. My solution for bumps like that is to get a pair of tweezers and pop em.

They aren't zits and the doctor specifically said DO NOT pop them. It is a rash of some sort. Today he has more of them, mostly on his belly and shins. Zits don't show up suddenly like this, or all over the body the way these have.

The look like chicken pox. It's very strange.

the mmmm, mmmm song. Who can forget it. It's up there with the girl in the bee suit....

anyway - I say it's time to go back to the doctor and demand a culture.

I am of the firm belief that if I have something I don't really need like - like strange lumps or weird rashes - there is no logical reason to "wait and see" when there is a test available to tell me what it is....

I would venture it is something from the water since you say he doesn't have any on his face!

I'd be more inclined to take him back if he was actually suffering from them and he was covered in them. They itch, but not so badly that he's scratching them all the time. He has no fever or anything of that sort. So far, he has nothing on his face and very few on his back. The worst are the ones on his arms--which look awful. There are a bunch on his legs too, but those look like they're going away.

I figure I'll see what things look like tomorrow. I'm pretty sure this is something he picked up from the water. Looking at some pictures I found on the net and reading up on this Swimmer's Itch thing, it sounds pretty much the same.

He's pretty mad at all of us because we didn't tell him you could get stuff like this from swimming in the lakes and rivers. LOL