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Chicken Pox

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puffling · 15/05/2007 08:04

DD's nursery has had a number of cases of chicken pox just lately so we have been expecting her to get it (she picks up every bug going). So last night we noticed a red pimply spot on her chest and prepared ourselves.

But this morning (14 hours later) its still just the same spot and it hasn't changed - still like a heat bump, without a liquid centre or whatever. Could this pock still be the first sign of chicken pox or would we have expected it to have developed faster.

She has been a bit bad-tempered for a few days but she is cutting four teeth. She's also doing strange poos, like 5 or 6 marbles at a time, but I don't know what that means!

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Nbg · 15/05/2007 08:07

Hmmm, it could be it.
I found that both my children displayed cold like symptoms and had bad diorreah before the spots came out.

I found 2 or 3 spots at first and then the next day there were more.
A friends dd had a handful of spots for a few days and then it came out full blast

fryalot · 15/05/2007 08:13

My dd2 had one spot for about three days before the others came out (it was only with hindsight that I realised what the first one was) and apparently my brother, or cousin, or somebody that my mum talks about only ever had one spot, but it was definitely full blown chicken pox (according to my mum)

gnu · 15/05/2007 09:47

Oh dear, I was hoping to get away with it as she's only just recovered from measles and she's been out of nursery in incubation.

So how long will she be infectious and out of nursery if this is chicken pox. Should she be OK to go back in next Wednesday?

Do they feel more sick when they get the full rash, or does the ill feeling ease off like with some other viruses?

Khara · 15/05/2007 10:34

Ds2 had only one spot for a day or 2 before the rest started to erupt. It was a classic fluid filled chicken-pox spot, and we were expecting it, as ds1 had just had them, so I was very suspicious. I did wonder if he'd only get the one as he was still breastfed, but he actually ended up covered in them, and had a worse do than his brother.

sherbert · 20/05/2007 18:58

Bumping this. Have discovered a couple of spots on DS 5 last night, and more today. He is not ill in anyway though and not itchy at all. Is this usual?

Bamzooki · 20/05/2007 19:19

I don't think it is unusual - be glad! You might find though that if he now starts to develop lots more spots he might feel more low - temperature, coldy/flu ish type of thing. IIRC the itching is worse as the spots heal. And with both my dc those first initial spots were the worst ones, and some left scars. DD had a couple just above her buttocks and they took forever to heal as they kept getting rubbed by her nappies.
A handful of bicarb in the bath is good for relieving the itching. And calomine etc obviously.

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