Can't decide to trust my judgement or ring NHSdirect................

[zephyrcat]

DD2 has just turned 1. DS has had chicken pox for almost 3 weeks. DD1 got her first chicken spot today.

DD2 has been a bit grizzly the last2/3 days. This morning she had a temp of 38.something, gave her calpol, she was fine. She's been grizzly when the calpol wears off but temp not been up again.

She is like when you have flu and you are hot, but shivery. Her hands are cold and she is shivery but body is fine and warm. Temp 36.something. Her skin has no rash but has those purpley vein like bits that you get when you are cold (does that make sense??!)

She also had her hib men c booster on Monday.

I'm hoping that it's just a collaboration of getting chicken pox, having her jabs etc

Does it sound like I need to call them?

If you're in any doubt at all, give them a call. Hope she's feeling better soon.

ringing up nhs direct is useless.
they are too scared of legal outcomes to tell you not to bother coming into the hospital. if youdont have transport they will send you an ambulance. causing youto get even more stressed.
either trust your own judgemetn. or someone in rl who can come see youwhom youtrust. or just call them being willing to go to a&e.
hope things sort themselves out soon

My instinct says she's ok, she has no temperature and no rash, but just want to double check with the cold hands thing really....

then stick with your instinct,
nhs direct once sent me to ande in an ambulance. quite frankly, a couple of strong painkillers would have sorte m e out.

Well she's gone to bed as normal and was asleep in a couple of minutes.

Do they generally get poorly before chicken pox when they're that little? ds and dd1 have both been fine...

my kids were only poorly for one day. the rest of the time they were bored and couldnt understand why they couldnt go to school etc.
so im not much good for advice here.

if she is sleeping soundly, then i m sure she should be fine.

All children are different, probably more the effects of her jab.

In my experience you get a better judgement from your local out-of-hours GP (if you're thinking of ringing this evening). Ring your usual GPs number and you should get diverted to your nearest OOHs.

Second that, NHS seem to ask a lot of very irrelevant questions and occasionally you get called back by someone sensible who knows what they're talking about. The rest of the time they just tell you to go to the Dr. anyway. Or the hospital of course.
Out of hours GP's tend to be much more 'real' and listen to what you're actually telling them.
I hope she is back to normal soon