More questions about chicken pox

[yawningmonster]

Ds came out in spots yesterday and it is definately chicken pox (dr diagnosed). He had a very mild case as a baby.

My questions

He has a pox on the thumb that he sucks, will he definatedly therefore get them in his mouth and is there anything I can put on it that is safe for him to put in his mouth (am thinking calamine wouldn't be ok)

Also what was the worst day for your child, we are only on day 2 and although grizzly and grumpy he doesn't seem itchy or hot. will it get worse, last time was so mild, only 12 spots crusted and gone within a week.

Califrau was your birthday on th 27th April??

haven't read whole thread but just popped in to say that piriton was brilliant and stopped DS scratching (much more effective than calamine and put him to sleep!)
apologies if someone has said that already!

Forced him into bath with me with oats, he was really upset and it doesn't seem to have helped to much, have taken on board the idea of putting spots on "monkey" but this upset him too unfortunately. Hoping the worst is over as he is finally sleeping (last two nites he really just cried and thrashed around even after pamol every 4 hours) I can't get out to get anything else for him as he is contagious and I'm here on my own. He does now have them in his mouth and has managed an ice block today but sobbed with every mouth ful. It is heartbreaking and exhausting but as I say hopefully he is coming through the worst.

Bollocks - i did a Happy Birthday effort to you and me on the 27th April !!!

Sorry for the hijack !!

vaccination costs 65 dollars here, so as you can imagine most children are not immunised against it and catch it at some stage. Our neighbour (adult male) had it very very badly earlier this year and was ill for a few weeks

Hi, how is he today?