Chickenpox VS Hand, Foot and Mouth - experience please!

[summermummy2016]

My 11 month old DS has been very grizzly last couple of days. Sleeping badly etc etc. Woke up this morning with pustules around mouth, nappy area, hands and feet and some ulcers on his tongue. Not keen on solids just purée stuff. Obviously in discomfort. Doesn't seem itchy though. Now he's got some on arms and legs and a couple on neck/back. Initially I was sure it was HFM but now I'm starting to think maybe chicken pox. Obviously realise there's no treatment for either but also would like to be sure whether he has or hasn't had chicken pox for the future.
I'd be grateful of anyone else's advice as to how to differentiate the two please!
Thanks!

I have no experience of hand foot and mouth. If he has chickenpox he will get more spots over the nect few days and your know he has it X

wouldn't know without a pic, if it is chicken pox they multiply rapidly , my dd started off with one on her eyebrow, then that evening her belly and back were covered in them.

Thank you! Haven't taken a pic as been tied up trying to prevent total meltdowns!!

If it is chicken pox baths with porridge oats and baking soda ( put the oats in an old sock or tights, it will soothe the skin and help to dry up spots and relieve itching, Give calpol for bedtimes, Piriton is good but for babies 1 year and over. With hand foot and mouth the rash is mostly around the mouth, hands and feet.

Firstly the main way to tell is location. Chicken pox will be all over the torso (and its rare to have spots on other places without having any on the torso)

HFM if you have spots on the palms of your hands or soles of your feet its HFM, if you have spots on arms and legs but not on the torso its HFM. If its a few spots in these places its HFM. Trust me they can also rapidly spread when DS had it he had loads over his hands, arms, face, feet and bum but none on his body

Even doctors find it hard to distinguish. The biggest difference is in quarantine as well. No quarantine for HFM (the live virus lasts up to 6 weeks being contagious so they dont bother)