Chicken Pox Club - Any Takers

[Nonyummymummy]

DD (18 months) has got the dreaded pox, she is now sporting a fine crop including on her face and neck. They started to appear on Tuesday.
I have Calamine and I am having mixed success with getting it on her. She cannot scratch her body directly although I have caught her using the coffee table to scratch her back
I have Piriton syrup which I will probably give her before her nap. Anybody tried Rhus tux? Last night she had a bad night, was very feverish but this morning has eaten breakfast and tried to corner the cat and give it a kicking - so appears to be on the mend bar the itching. Is this the usual pattern - she did some exorcist style vomiting last night before bed so I am hoping that was a one off!

So dd is pretty much all better now. Spots are going and she's still a bit tired, but generally okay. We can even go out and about a bit more now after two weeks pretty much stuck at home. Or we could if it were not for the spots appearing all over both her brothers as I type. Sigh. This Easter hols has been pants .

My eldest is awful, the spots first appeared between her legs, like a nappy rash and she ahs blisters on her tongue, when she bites anything she cries, she always has her hands down her nappy scratching and getting really distressed

Hi Ckmum & Wilbur - sorry to hear you are having a rough time. DD's last scabs have just dropped off her back. Hope you lo's are better soon.

Hi there, can we join in? ds1 (28 months) has come down with CP on Thursday, and I'm hoping he won't pass it on to ds2 (4 months). Fortunately both dh and I have had it.
How likely is it that ds2 will get it? He's fully bf, and I've had both CP and shingles. We are due to fly to Holland next week (Saturday), and I'm a bit worried...

I only know of one baby of that age who has had chickenpox and she was no longer beiong fed at all. I think if you are still fully b'feeding, it should be okay. I tried to find something about it on the net (there wasn't much info really) as my ds2 is 8 months and I wasn't sure if he might still have some immunity but I am only feedin him morning and night now and, as it turns out he is not immune. He's got a lot of his spots in his groin too, ckmum, horrid.

nonyummymummy - glad your dd is all better now.

I am in CP hell! dd came down on Wednesday night with a few spots and I think now is over the worst but I swear she must have 1000 spots, they are everywhere, up her nose, under her tongue, in her ears, her genitals. It's really upset me I didn't realise how hideous it was going to be. My DD was looking forward to going away at Easter and instead she looks like she's got the plague and has sobbed and screamed the whole time. I'm really angry that I was so unprepared for it to be so awful. All the books and websites seem to say 'mild illness'. arrggghhhh.

Can you get it again? dd1 had a nasty bout 2 1/2 years ago and has woken up this morning with some spots that look just like cp!

I've googled shingles and it doesn't look like that, but exact cp spots!!

has anyone ever heard of a LO having CP with NO spots?

Iknow it sounds silly but ive been waiting for Dd to get CP, and shes been quite off for a few days and has 1 spot by her eye. havent found any more!

hi, just thought i'd put a little update on this thread: we are in holland at the moment and ds2 now has chickenpox. gp here said he would be fit to fly today (his spots have crusts on), but didn't write a note, and now we got refused at the gate today...
i guess this means that bf babies can get chickenpox! he's actually worse than ds1 was: still looks horrible, loads of spots in his face, so it does look spectacular at the moment.
my parents are exstatic, as this means another week with the grandchildren, but i was sort of ready to go home, we are spending our first week away from dh and ds1 is crying for his papa every night (me too, to be honoust...)