How do you catch Chicken Pox?

[Distel]

Is it by touch or airborn?

airborn.

poor ds, he has just got over tonsilitis (still on antibiotics) and I think he has now got chicken Pox .

Airbourn

not sure but i tock my son round my friends when hers had it and 2wks latter he got them to. sounds a bit harsh to have done that but its over and done with.

childern
I did the same with dts

DD2 has had a really bad virus since last wednesday and is just getting better when she got out of the bath on wednesday night she had 4 spots (more like blisters) on her back. No more have appeared but had her checked by health visitor this morning and she confirmed chicken pox.

they do look like blisters mine has a scar by his ear because i didn't know what it was at the time only had afew one day then the next he was covered from head to foot.

DD still only has 4 spots so does that mean that she won't get anymore?

If you have more than 1 kid the first one will often get it mild but the second (and subsequent!) may get it much worse. This is cos the first got it outside the home from a short contact but the next one is exposed to it all the time the first is infectious so they get a much bigger load of the virus. My dd1 got it mild but ds who got it second was covered, even on his eyes, willy and soles of his feet! Still waiting for dd2 to get it, she wasn't born when they had it.
Bircarbonate of soda cool baths are really good for the itching though we actually had to get an antihisthamine from the GP for ds to stop him scratching his eyes.