scarlett fever, hospitalised athma attack and now chicken pox - normal or what?

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DS2 is 3 and in the past three months has had scarlet fever (confirmed by boc and tests) and asthmas style attack resulting in two days in hospital (never had any breathing issues before) and now he has chicken pox. Oh and he has glue ear in one ear.

Three big illnessess in three months, I am worried. Do I need to be? Is it just a bad patch?

I have a appt with consultant at end Nov following his hospital stay.

He is still eating and drinking, very clingy and whiney, but generally still fun and happy.

Am in a tizz!

Thanks. Not sure about the diagnosis as yet, in hospital they said it could be a one off or the start of something, just have to watch and see what happens when he gets another cold. Also we have a follow up appt in November to discuss in more detail. DS1 had mild asthma when he was little but seems to have grown out of it.

Just worrying as you do!

Think when DC's have asthma or any underlying health condition it is quite normal for them to be ill a lot, catch everything going. My Ds has a poor immune system from an underlying health condition (won't say what as its rare and don't want to be too recognisable in RL, anonymity of mn is nice). It just seems to be one of those things that you can't change, sorry! Just read your last post tho, thats if your DS does have asthma & not one off. Ps scarlet fever not much of biggie IME, Ds had it & was fever & rash, there are possible complications but usually quite mild. Meant to be rare 'nowadays' but don't think it is, maybe just under-diagnosed.

Sorry Pixie, my DS obv was fortunate to have a mild case & thought I'd read at time that it was usually mild, t'was a couple of years ago tho, shouldn't have generalised.

Dd had scarlett fever 18 months ago and was really ill too. Neither of my dcs have ever been as ill as she was with it - for four days, she was not awake for more than 20mins at a time. Her glands in her neck so swollen that she could not lift her head up herself and her voice sounded like minnie mouse for months afterwards.

It took weeks for her to recover and start to put weight back on. Months later she was still missing one week in four from school, with tonsillitis, high temps, etc.

So it obviously, completely knocked her immune system.

Interestingly, she also has glue ear (diagnosed this year), her glands are often up in her neck and stomach, even when 'well'.

I don't know how much can be linked to the scarlett fever or whether she would have had these things anyway but suspect there is some link. She was pretty healthy before the scarlett fever and missed very little nursery through illness.

She is definately more able to fight infections now than she was a year ago, so hopefully, time will help your ds to build his immune system too.