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To ask about chickenpox?

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Chickenp0x · 03/08/2022 12:13

My son has was we suspect is CP. GP confirmed the spots look like it and he had been unwell with cold style symptoms just before they appeared.

Anyway, he started on Monday with about 6 spots. Yesterday he woke and had about 3 more give or take and no more today.

They don't seem to be bothering him at all, not itchy, no fever ect.

Do you think I can relax a bit now that he is likely to just have a mild case? Everything I've read online says the spots multiple quite quickly. His just don't seem to be.

I know there's nothing I can do either way just want to know if anyone's experienced slow spreading chickenpox that seemed mild but went crazy suddenly or whether if they haven't spread in the first few days I can get my hopes up it'll be mild for him!

My husband isn't convinced that it is CP at all. All his spots are on his legs, arms, one on his face and one on his back but in the main on legs and arms.

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dementedpixie · 03/08/2022 14:18

Doesn't sound like the usual presentation for CP. Are they fluid filled blisters?

catndogslife · 03/08/2022 14:20

Measles and German Measles have cold like symptoms before spots appear.

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 14:20

monkeypox

Jules912 · 03/08/2022 14:25

My DD had a handful of spots her first day, half a dozen more the next then woke up covered on day 3. She was very itchy and quite poorly with it from the start though.

CounsellorTroi · 03/08/2022 14:26

Impetigo?

TheBitterBoy · 03/08/2022 14:27

If getting another appointment with the gp seems over the top, your local pharmacist would be able to give a second opinion.

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Chickenp0x · 03/08/2022 14:29

dementedpixie · 03/08/2022 14:18

Doesn't sound like the usual presentation for CP. Are they fluid filled blisters?

Thanks. Yes they are fluid filled blisters. The doctor said they look right for the start of chickenpox, that was on Monday. This pic is of a couple on his arm.

To be honest they don't seem to have changed much since then. None of them have burst or anything yet and he seems otherwise well in himself other than a bit clammy and a little more tired than usual (but no fever)

To ask about chickenpox?
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Chickenp0x · 03/08/2022 14:30

Not the best pic but they are definitely fluid filled and doctor agreed (she saw him face to face).

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girlmom21 · 03/08/2022 14:33

DD had a couple for the first two days then exploded but hopefully he does just have a really mild case!

bbqhulahoop · 03/08/2022 14:33

Honestly DD had it super mildly, less than 30 spots in total. I don't think it's always horrific! Hers did itch mind you

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Chickenp0x · 03/08/2022 14:37

girlmom21 · 03/08/2022 14:33

DD had a couple for the first two days then exploded but hopefully he does just have a really mild case!

Thanks, I've been googling (I know I shouldn't ha!) And all I can really see is people talking about it spreading really quickly, so quickly they can see them appearing and so on... And his just doesn't seem that way but didn't want to get my hopes up too soon if slow spread was normal!

Fingers crossed it's mild.

I'm thinking if they haven't started to change after the weekend I'll take him back to the GP in case it's something else as surely they should be starting to burst/scab by then.

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Chickenp0x · 03/08/2022 14:39

Also, that pic doesn't seem too bad but they do look quite red and angry IRL!

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DappledThings · 03/08/2022 14:48

DS really did have it very mildly. Only a handful of spots and only a bit of itchiness for a couple of days. And he never passed it to DD either.

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 14:49

I'd check if it was Monkeypox if I were you - children in the UK are being infected in quite alarming numbers and before anyone is stupid enough to say it - Monkeypox in not an STI

thaegumathteth · 03/08/2022 14:53

Ds had 2 spots for 3 days before eventually being covered in them. He did have a fever but wasn't unwell. Dd on the other hand had the typical rapidly multiplying spots - she was only a baby and was COVERED. Again she wasn't unwell just itchy and grumpy!

89redballoons · 03/08/2022 14:59

It's possible to have it mildly. I had about 5 spots on my chest when I was a toddler. It was definitely chickenpox because I got it from my cousins who had loads of spots, and I've been exposed to toddlers with chickenpox as an adult and never caught it again.

As of 28 July, only one case of monkeypox in a child had been confirmed, so not sure where these "alarming numbers" are. (See the government technical report).

LangClegsInSpace · 03/08/2022 15:01

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 14:49

I'd check if it was Monkeypox if I were you - children in the UK are being infected in quite alarming numbers and before anyone is stupid enough to say it - Monkeypox in not an STI

No they're not. Where are you getting your info?

89redballoons · 03/08/2022 15:02

(One case in a child in the UK, that is).

dementedpixie · 03/08/2022 15:04

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 14:49

I'd check if it was Monkeypox if I were you - children in the UK are being infected in quite alarming numbers and before anyone is stupid enough to say it - Monkeypox in not an STI

Stop scaremongering. Monkeypox is not infecting children in large numbers

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 15:08

dementedpixie · 03/08/2022 15:04

Stop scaremongering. Monkeypox is not infecting children in large numbers

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its been declared a major medical emergency by the who but you just carry on as normal and pretend it won't affect you. Idiot!

dementedpixie · 03/08/2022 15:17

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 15:08

its been declared a major medical emergency by the who but you just carry on as normal and pretend it won't affect you. Idiot!

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I didn't say it wasn't a medical emergency but you are giving inaccurate information about cases in children

So do you have a source for your claim that children in the UK are being infected in quite alarming numbers?

LangClegsInSpace · 03/08/2022 15:22

sjk17 · 03/08/2022 15:08

its been declared a major medical emergency by the who but you just carry on as normal and pretend it won't affect you. Idiot!

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It has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern because:

... we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in the International Health Regulations.

However:

Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.

That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-statement-on-the-press-conference-following-IHR-emergency-committee-regarding-the-multi--country-outbreak-of-monkeypox--23-july-2022

(Sorry for the derail OP. Fingers crossed, it sounds like your son has escaped with a very mild case of CP)

Quackajack · 03/08/2022 15:24

Could be mild chicken pox or molluscum contagiosum.

Sarah180818 · 03/08/2022 18:58

My DS had a mild case of CP as you've described at 2 but has just had it again at 5 and he was absolutely covered.

Purplehonesty2 · 03/08/2022 19:12

My son had it aged 6/7 and only had 6 spots

My poor daughter aged 2/3 was covered in them a week later.

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