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Chicken pox

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Laurz93 · 25/01/2025 23:13

Hi everyone! My little boy was at the doctors Wednesday had a temperature the day before passed it off as teething, he had a spot on his hand then noticed an unusual rash with spots anyway the doctor said it was chicken pox, then the next day it spread like something that didn’t look like chicken pox! Went to care doc was told it was infected chicken pox! It’s very angry looking has anyone’s 14month old ever had it this bad! Thank you!

Chicken pox
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Tryingtryingandtrying · 25/01/2025 23:55

This looks more like hand foot and mouth to me. My son was misdiagnosed when he had this as having chicken pox. It's still viral, but check inside his mouth to see if there are red spots. It looks mainly around mouth elbows and knees where as c pox does not appear like that

dementedpixie · 25/01/2025 23:44

Avoid ibuprofen as it can cause skin reactions if its chickenpox. I'm not sure it looks like CP though.

Is it on his body too?
Could be a bad case of hand foot and mouth maybe

Luddite26 · 25/01/2025 23:30

PoxCilin mousse that's what I used on the most recent case and would use again.
It's widely available including Amazon and they do an oat bath too.

InDogweRust · 25/01/2025 23:25

You didn't give any ibuprofen/calprofen/nurofen right?

I know it can flare up pretty bad but i thought it was normally worse on torso than limbs.

Check with doc/nursein case its too infected but oat baths and calamine cream help

Luddite26 · 25/01/2025 23:24

I'm sorry to be no use. Feel so awful for you both. Is he taking the antibiotics ok? Hopefully they should kick in.
I used some cream specific for chicken pox for one quite recently it was in a bottle with a pump lid just from Asda I think.
Hopefully someone who has seen this before can help.
I would go back if he seems poorly and it doesn't seem to be calming down.💐

MintTwirl · 25/01/2025 23:24

Not a toddler but my son had it aged 13 and was covered head to toe in the rash and it looked very angry like that and was poorly with it too. Luckily for us he was older and could tell us what helped, he had several oat baths a day followed by poxcillin mousse which he found really helped to soothe his skin for a bit and it is super gentle to apply. It was awful at the time but thankfully he has no scarring etc.

i really hope your little one feels better soon.

VividBlue · 25/01/2025 23:23

Oh poor little mite. How is he in himself, apart from the temp?
My kids’ faces did look like that with CP but their arms weren’t as severe as that. I’ve never seen CP that bad.

cadburyegg · 25/01/2025 23:19

Oh wow, poor baby. That does look really unpleasant. My children were older when they got it but were helped by virasoothe, if you can get hold of any of that, but you might need to wait till the infection has settled a bit. The other thing that helped my children were lukewarm baths. Hope he makes a recovery soon.

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Laurz93 · 25/01/2025 23:17

I know I have never seen chicken pox like this before the doctor said it was infected chicken pox and gave us an antibiotic for it but it’s very severe and it came up with afew Wednesday then within a day or two it was this!

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Luddite26 · 25/01/2025 23:15

Oh no poor soul I've never seen it as angry as that.
What did the doctor say? Why has it gone like that? Did they tell you how to treat it?

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