question: Hia my friends son recently was told he had slap cheek, the day after me and my daughter were round there we started getting runny noses and coughs and i have had very blocked ears constantly for two days now, one thing i remember about her son when he was ill is he had ear pains. Is it possible that me and my daughter are in the early stages of slap cheek? I realise that the slap cheek rash may not appear for a week after the first symptoms if there are any.