To ask for your help with dd and chicken pox

[Exhaustedmummy1811]

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?

At the moment they aren’t sure that the vaccination lasts beyond childhood.

Not true.

It hasn't been around long enough for that data. That's just a line people trot out to make themselves feel better about not vaccinating.

It's not on the schedule because of cost.

If you can afford it (and personally I feel it's just an associated cost of having children) then vaccinate.

I would get an out of hours gp appointment tonight. Eyes and chicken pox are not a good mix.
Google Orbital cellulitis in children. Nearly lost dd last year due to a rapid deterioration. Needed emergency surgery to save eye and antibiotics due to virus turning into infection.

The American cdc believe that the vaccines should last at least 10-20 years obviously in the majority of people it will last a lot longer, as an adult (46) I’ve still got no immunity to chicken pox it does worry me at times but then again so does shingles after seeing my granny afflicted, I don’t want to worry op but my granny’s shingles damaged her eyesight

If she is happy in herself (and may now be asleep), as others have said, I would phone the surgery in the morning and explain. I expect they will offer an appt after normal morning surgery but if they won't as the receptionist for an advice call so you can discuss it.
If you are concerned before then phone out of hours or 111.
Hope she is OK and feeling better soon.

OP I hope your daughter is well soon. I would ring 111 if at all worried, which you clearly are.

This is interesting and says that it is very unlikely that the chicken pox vaccine causes shingles later in life. Shingles is caused usually by the latent virus from chicken pox.

I've had chicken pix as a child and shingles as an adult.

My son was vaccinated against chicken pox. I paid privately and I am very glad he had it as he had not caught it by age 4.

I would phone 111 to check your dd doesn't need to be seen quickly. Hope she's better soon.

I had chicken pox as an adult and it was a nightmare. I have had the shingles vaccine now as over 70.

Get her seen tonight if you can - she's at risk of serious complications of chicken pox (particularly in her case - orbital cellulitis as mentioned above, encephalitis or infection in her brain due to the proximity of the eye socket and the brain).

At the very least they'll be able to reassure you and give you some signs to watch out for. They may consider antivirals if the eye infection warrants it, or antibiotic drops if they think she may have a super-added bacterial eye infection on top of the viral chickenpox.

Hard to judge without a picture but "red and swollen" sounds like orbital cellulitis.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their help and advice. We have just got back from the doctors and she said because it isn't on the eyeball she doesn't need to go to hospital but to keep a close eye incase it spreads. She has antibiotic eye drops, so fingers crossed everything will be OK

That's reassuring.
My DD was very itchy when she had it. Spent about 4 days in the bath!

to the op and glad your dd is on the mend.

As for the anti vaccers on the thread, please don’t listen to them and get your child vaccinated. The vaccine has been used in the US for over 25 years and is safe and effective. There is no evidence whatsoever it doesn’t “last beyond childhood”. It’s given as routine in most developed countries. Just NHS is not doing it because of cost and worries it will cause mmr rates to fall (it’s usually given as MMRV).

Glad she got seen and got the antibiotic drops, @worriedmummy1811. Hopefully she starts to feel better soon - if she gets particularly itchy try bathing her in oat water (put porridge oats in a stocking and run bath through them; then you can also use the oat bag to wash her with and get more of the oat liquid onto her skin as it can be very soothing) xx

Hope she is on the mend.