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To ask for your help with dd and chicken pox

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Exhaustedmummy1811 · 03/04/2019 18:00

My dd is 3 and 3 days ago came out in chicken pox. Today her eye looked red and swollen, I've just looked and she appears to have a blister on the inside of the bottom of her eye, if you know what I mean. But it looks like it may have burst as it is flat and quite big in comparison to her eye. Should I be worried? Or is this normal?

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TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup · 03/04/2019 18:03

Aww poor wee thing, I had bad chicken pox as a child, through my hair and in my mouth etc. Pox spots can get everywhere. There's not much you can do. Piriton medicine to help ease the itch from inside and calamine lotion for on the skin. Hope it eases up soon.

TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup · 03/04/2019 18:04

Meant to say, by all means see if you can get a home visit from the GP if you are worried about it though.

sleepylittlebunnies · 03/04/2019 18:09

I think within the eye socket I would get a GP appointment due to risk of infection. She may need eye drops.

MollysMummy2010 · 03/04/2019 18:12

I would take her to the gp OP. My daughter had this and ended up in hospital on intravenous antibiotics for three days - something to do with it spreading to the brain. She was so poorly.

LocalBadGal · 03/04/2019 18:15

Why don’t people get their kids vaccinated? Chickenpox is a preventable illness.

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Exhaustedmummy1811 · 03/04/2019 18:16

Oh god now I'm really worried, do you think I should phone 111 or do you think she will be OK till morning? She has lots of spots but seems to be happy in her self. We have been using piriton and colomile lotion it's just this one that's worrying me and I can't seem to find much on it online. Thank you for your replies

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BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 03/04/2019 18:18

Why don’t people get their kids vaccinated? Chickenpox is a preventable illness.

The vaccine is not routinely offered in the U.K.....

Rememberallball · 03/04/2019 18:19

Why don’t people get their kids vaccinated? Chickenpox is a preventable illness.

Because it’s not routinely available on the NHS in the UK nor is it on the schedule of vaccinations for children unless they have other complex health issues!!

Beamur · 03/04/2019 18:19

Ouch. That may be quite sore. I'd ring the doctors in the morning.

whatsleep · 03/04/2019 18:20

Wow, LocalBadGal sensitivity put Hmm

AlunWynsKnee · 03/04/2019 18:22

It won't hurt to give 111 a call.

N0tfinished · 03/04/2019 18:22

My DS has this. Doc put him on anti-virals, they really helped. You have my sympathies, it was an awful week, he was so ill.

zsazsajuju · 03/04/2019 18:23

Obviously no help to you op but others reading this thread should take the first opportunity to get their dcs vaccinated. It can be a pretty serious and even fatal illness. Vaccine is not routinely available on nhs but you can get it privately from high st chemists.

Op hope you dd recovers quickly. Def call 111 for advice.

Rememberallball · 03/04/2019 18:24

@Exhaustedmummy1811, I would call your GP surgery first thing in the morning and ask for an urgent call back from the duty doctor and explain the situation - they may well want to see her but will organise this for either the end of morning surgery so she isn’t in the waiting room with potentially vulnerable patients and so she isn’t hanging around. Alternatively they may want to see her st home and add her to the home visit list. Lastly, they may accept your explanation and description and be prepared to prescribe suitable medication via a phone consultation (though it’s unlikely given its inside her lower eyelid - if I’ve understood your description properly!!)

I hope she feels better soon and isn’t too poorly xx

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Exhaustedmummy1811 · 03/04/2019 18:25

Thank you, if it were routinely offered I would have vaccinated them. Unfortunately I am not in a position to pay privately. It wasn't offered at all when my eldest children had it and they never had any adverse effects, nor did I or other family members.

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Exhaustedmummy1811 · 03/04/2019 18:27

@rememberall thank you that's really helpful. And thank you for everyone's advice and well wishes it really means a lot. I never really there were such serious side effects from chicken pox, I was always told its just one of those things that most people will get at some point or another (I know very naive)

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hidinginthenightgarden · 03/04/2019 18:28

Vaccinating against CP isn’t available on the NHS as for the average kid it isn’t dangerous. At the moment they aren’t sure that the vaccination lasts beyond childhood. If you get it for the first time as an adult it could become shingles which is much worse!

user1471514872 · 03/04/2019 19:58

Definitely see your GP asap. Pox in the eyes can be dangerous.

kikibo · 03/04/2019 20:45

Anyone who has had chicken pox or the vaccine can get shingles, as it's caused by the virus staying dormant in usually one nerve and then breaking through after a spell of reduced immunity (stress or other illness). The only thing you are guaranteed not to get with the vaccine is chicken pox itself (at least for some time).

I would either contact the GP or an ophthalmologist to make sure nothing's going on with her eye.

My husband had shingles on his face (ear and eye, pretty much half his head) and he actually had viral meningitis because of it too (to do with how the nerves run), so it's not at all unwise to contact an HCP for this.

MollysMummy2010 · 03/04/2019 20:58

I would call 101 or whatever it is but don’t panic if she seems ok in herself. My daughter was lethargic and obviously unwell. GP tomorrow though as a precaution as the hospital told me the infection can spread through the membrane from the eye to the brain. Don’t want to worry you but best to be safe.

Angeldust747 · 03/04/2019 21:02

No advice about the pox in her eye, fingers crossed the GP can see her first thing and give you some advice!
It may be common knowledge but if your DD does need pain relief don't give ibuprofen as it can make chicken pox worse, it happened to a family member last year xx

Brexshitisntit · 03/04/2019 21:13

It may go without saying but please don't just rock up to the GP with an infectious child - there could be people with reduced/compromised immunity also attending the surgery.

Call GP/111 for advice first.

I'm cross that the NHS won't add this to the vaccine schedule - parents in the likes of US and Oz cannot believe the medieval way we allow our kids to suffer like this. (And if anti-vaccers hadn't pushed down the take up rate of other vaccines it may have been added to the schedule by now).

In terms of those talking down the effectiveness of the vaccine, the long term immunity isn't known simply because the vaccine has not been around long enough. Studies/trials show the vaccine (2 doses) to be at least as effective as having caught it and suffered.

OP I hope your little one isn't suffering too much.

Sooverthemill · 03/04/2019 21:23

Call GP tomorrow or 111 tonight if you are worried. If your child has eczema it's worth mentioning that as it can sometimes lead to a very nasty condition which is prevented through acyclovir. My dd had severe eczema and needed this when she had chicken pox ( twice!). It's not common but a known complication. Also if child is immunocompromised in any way. Good luck, chicken pox is horrid for anyone and it's a huge shame the UK doesn't vaccinate

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Exhaustedmummy1811 · 03/04/2019 21:25

Thank you everyone I will ring first thing in the morning. I know not to just turn up as I've been panicking about it spreading as I have a 3 week old preemie at home but so far no sign of her getting it, fingers crossed

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MollysMummy2010 · 03/04/2019 21:30

Re PP, I made sure that the receptionist knew my daughter definitely had the pox and they put us in a side room so didn’t infect anyone in the waiting room - make sure you do that!

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