Advice on how fast chickenpox develops

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Hello, I'd be grateful for some advice on chickenpox please, having never seen it before! DS (12 months) has been exposed to chickenpox at the childminder, so we've been on high alert looking out for any signs (for high alert, read utter paranoia...!) On Saturday evening we spotted a few little spots on his back, very small, not very red, just a little bumpy. On Sunday there were a few more, but no change in their appearance. Today (Monday) there are no more and the appearance still hasn't changed. They look nothing like the blistery spots I've googled, but I don't know how long it takes chickenpox spots to develop. Any advice/info? DS is a bit off colour, but he's teething as well so it could just be that.

As DH said this morning, if we weren't on the look out for pox we probably wouldn't even think about it from the appearance of the spots, but we're both rookies at this and don't want to inject a gazillion other children through our inexperience! Any advice gratefully received.

They would have started blistering by now. Did they look as if they had fluid in them?

Hi Dementedpixie, no they don't look like they have fluid in them, they're just a bit raised.

(PS. I also meant INFECT not INJECT in my OP.... I don't run around with a syringe I promise!)

Hi, chicken pox can take up to three weeks to develop from being infected. Once the spots come, they come quite quickly and are very evidently chicken pox, in my experience. On the day we realised our son had them, he had no spots in the morning but by bath time, when we took off his t shirt, they were all over his chest and back.