chicken pox?

[Woollymummy]

yesterday DD had three red spots on her buttocks and fever of 39 degrees, today fever has gone down but one of the red spots has got a massive pustle developing, others still the same. she also suddenly has mouth ulcers and mild thrush which she alwys gets when she is running some kind of infection. is it chicken pox this time, she is nearly 3 and has not yet had it.

[thisisyesterday]

woollymummy, if it was chicken pox it would normally have spread quite quickly

the last of mine to get it had one spot one morning, and a whole sprinkling by that evening,
so i would concur with portandlemon that it could well be hand, foot and mouth

Taimur- am assuming you are not in the uk as you talk of the chicken pox vaccine?
have you had it? if not you could be carrying it as the incubation period is up to 21 days

if the contagious children ahve now gone home then there is absolutely no risk to your wife or son (unless you have chicken pox) and no need to disinfect your home

fwiw chicken pox is a relatively mild disease and you shouldn't be overly worried about them catching it. as you've discovered vaccinations are not 100% effective anyway!

[taimur]

My wife and son are visiting my in laws. However at my place, my sister is visiting us with her 3 children, a girl age 10, a boy age 6 and youngest girl who happens to be just one year old. The boy developed chicken pox and the next one to catch was the eldest girl who is ten. Now these elder siblings had vaccination for chicken pox when they were 1 year old but still they developed chickn pox (the question is why, is it natural and probable)and now the youngest girl developed chicken pox as well of course she never got any vaccination as she just turned 1. I asked my wife to get vaccination and she will have another shot in next 6 weeks as she never had chicken pox when she was a child and of course my son is hardly 7 months old so he never had vaccination. My wife and son are at my in laws and have asked them to stay on for some extended period of time and return home in next 15 days when the children are fine and have taken a bath. The question is that how should i prevent / disinfect the hosue so as to avoid chicken pox spreading to my wife and son who will come in another 2 weeks. Are there any special disinfectants or sprays, any recommened remedy to clean up remote controls, telephones, tables etc where my neices and nephew might have touched while they were infected with chicken pox?

[PortAndLemon]

Sounds more like hand, foot and mouth (which isn't particularly serious).

[FrankMustard]

might be, if the spots are blistering. Mouth ulcers might be pox in dd's mouth, but I've not come across the thrush before, so can't help there.
It's the right time of year for it IYSWIM.
ds 4 has chicken pox at the moment, so I sympathise!
Check with gp if you're at all uncertain about diagnosis - but make sure you tell the receptionists that it might be chicken pox, don't just turn up at the surgery with dd as it's highly contagious.