Chickenpox

[unpsychicsally]

Hello, DD woke up with a temp of 38 this morning, by early afternoon it had raised to 39.9 (for those of you who saw my previous thread - so glad I didn't send her to nursery) and by late afternoon my DS also had an extremely high temp of 39.5.

I have contstatly kept them topped up with medicine. My DD has one spot on her face, has complained of being achy and my mother has just phoned to ask if it was chickenpox. I immediately remembered seeing a neighbour on sunday who said her child was clear and that his scabs had dried but there was a big one on his face that clearly hadn't dried.

Does the high temperature sound like it is a chicken pox fever? Does anybody have any experience of this please?

TIA

They can get high temperatures with chickenpox, generally just before spots come out. Incubation time is 10-21 days so unlikely this would've been from your neighbour on Sunday though; but plenty of it about at the moment for them to have picked it up elsewhere. You'll know soon enough if it is the pox as more spots will appear...

Yes, there is a lot of it going around at the minute, I guess I will know one way or another by the morning. It's just such a worry and wanting to know/guess what it might be.