Chicken pox

[Laurz93]

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!

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.💐

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

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.

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

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

This is why it's so important to have the vaccination. Poor thing - I hope he feels better soon 😢

My son was very wheezy with chicken pox, and the GP suggested Piriton, perhaps that would help here?

Also @JessiesJ99 are you talking about the UK? Because the vax isn't part of normal childhood immunisations here and isn't even that well known about. Your condescending post is unnecessary.

It's well known in the UK, and been around for years. Tbh when you have children you need to make it your business to find these things out. Nothing condescending about it - just advice to others.

Looks like infected exczema not cp

Does that comment make you feel better? It's completely pointless commenting on the vax. If he has already contracted chickenpox. Also, it's not free from the NHS, and some people can't afford it.

Please don't be so heartless in the future. This mom is clearly worried about her baby, and comments like yours are at best unhelpful and rude.

I'm with others, tepid baths and oatmeal or bicarb in the bath. Oatmeal lotion may help to soothe as well. Not sure if he's old enough yet but good old calamine lotion (the pink stuff) works well at soothing the itch. Also get him back into so some scratch mittens. If he does scratch a blister, it needs to be washed in mild soap and water or put into the bath.

Hope he feels better soon.

The vaccine is available privately for a small fee, at most Boots and Superdrug stores.

It's not patronising for someone to point this out, lots of people don't know about it.

Obviously it's too late for this kid, but anyone reading could benefit from the information.

It's a standard vaccine in every other western nation, NHS didn't introduce it because of money and unfounded fears about it negatively impacting population level resistance to shingles in older people.

Chicken pox is really unpleasant, taking the vaccine is a good idea. It's safe, effective and saves them from unnecessary suffering.

The chickenpox vaccine costs around £150 for 2 doses so not that small a fee especially if you have multiple children.

Maybe if my kids hadn't had it by the time they were teenagers I would have considered it but they had it age 3 (dd) who gave it to ds (5½ months).

Poxclin mousse is better than calamine as it doesn't dry hard on the skin. I remember having that as a child! My DC got relief from poxclin and a cool oatmeal Aveeno bath . Hope he gets better soon x

Your poor little baby, that looks so sore! Can’t add any more advice that others haven’t said already but hope it clears up soon and your little one feels better.

As an aside, £150 isn’t a small amount of money to many people.

What may be a small fee to you is not for others especially with lots of children. Also Chicken Pox is not really unpleasant, in the majority of cases kids feel absolutely fine with it. Hence the CP parties of old.

Yes my youngest got it at 11 months (too young for the private vaccine here before a PP criticises) and it was like your son's arms but all over her body. I'm not exaggerating when I say there wasn't a square cm of clear skin anywhere. Huge angry spots you could feel through clothes, that then turned into massive scabs.

She does have quite lot of faint scars on her back, and a couple on her forehead. They're very faint though, I don't think anyone else would notice them. Probably more on her scalp but they're generally hidden by hair.

I had assumed they were a myth but oat baths really really helped soothe it.

I know it's no use for this parent as it's too late. My post was to raise awareness to others that a vaccination is available 😀

This!

I get that some people can't or don't want to pay for it, but many people will pay.

Just because some people can't afford something doesn't mean no one can.

Tbh, I don't know anyone who can't afford to pay £150 if it means their child doesn't have to go through something so unpleasant. Not to mention sleepless nights for the parents.

This must be v unpleasant for this little boy, so if one person saw my post and got the vaccine, then it's worth it, surely?

I’m all for people getting the vaccine, my comment was more aimed at whoever it was said £150 is a “small fee”. It is for some people but not for many. I’ve actually thought about getting one of my children the vaccine as my eldest has had CP but second child never caught it despite being exposed plenty of times and is now a teenager. £150 isn’t a small amount of money to me but CP is apparently even worse the older you get.