advice needed please

[loopylou6]

hi my ds 8 years this month has had a strange rash on his back just in one spot, it looks like clustered spots that are very red, he has 2 single spots on his side and 2 small patches on his chest, he is acting fine within himself and im thinking this rash could be shingles as he has already had chickenpox, what i want to know is, is it possible for kids of his age to get shingles, have any of your children had shingles?

[Tatat]

Think shingles is normally painful, and the spots normally appear in a line/part of a line round the tummy/chest

But someone more qualified than me will be hopefully be along in a jiffy to give more info!

[3littlefrogs]

Yes - my ds2 had shingles when he was about 9 or 10. He was a bit off colour - he had had a flu type bug just before he got the shingles. Shingles appears when you are run down from something else. Just make sure he has rest and a good diet so that his immune system can recover. ank keep away from anyone in the early stages of pregnancy.

Having said all that - it doesn't sound like the classic distribution of shingles rash. the spots usually follow the path of a nerve. The spots are usually very painful.I guess I would assume it is shingles unless it becomes more obviously something else.
Are the spots all at one level - i.e. do they go around his ribcage at roughly the same height?

[loopylou6]

hi thanks for ur replys, yes i took him to see the nurse pescriber this morning and she said it is shingles, in reply to ur question 3littlefrogs, it does appear to follow the line round

[3littlefrogs]

That is the clue that suggests shingles - you can "draw" a line - a bit like "dot to dot" along the pathway of the nerve. Hope he is better soon.

[loopylou6]

aww thanks 3 little frogs xx