Chickenpox, this can't be it, can it?

[expatinscotland]

DD1 broke out in fluid-filled blisters on 10 Jan.

A nightmare - no fever, but sleepless nights, crying and screaming, Piriton galore, etc. She's just now losing the last of the scabs and still has pink spots underneath, although these are fading.

DD2 broke out in rash today.

Lots of spots coming out over the course of the day, but she was still eating, drinking as normal, dancing, playing, got in the bath just as happily as ever, etc.

I'm waiting for the penny to drop here, people.

She's 2.1 and obviously caught it from her sister.

Is it possible for a child to have chickenpox all over and not be ill?

Will it kick in later?

Touch wood, all she's ever had in her life were two small colds.

my dd was 4 and def didn't suffer much with chicken pox, I was amazed, as I only had myself ( who got it bad at 10) to compare it too.

I wasn't ill at all with CP but my elder sister was.

My DD wasn't ill at all, but my DS, who caught them from her was terribly, terribly ill.

So yes, it is possible that she will be bouncing around as normal, interspersed with the odd itching spell

DD1 is 4.6 and she was dire with them!

Omg, days crying and moaning on the couch.

Nights crying in our bed despite Piriton and alternate Calpol/Nurofen, an entire tube of Eurax and half a tub of calamine cream, oatmeal/bicarb baths galore, NO appetite, bribing her to drink juice+water, etc.

DD1 was cheerful and running round the garden during her chickenpox. DP had flu-ey type symptoms at the start, then didn't even have an itch.

So yes, it is possible.

dd2 was 7m when she got chickenpox (3 weeks after dd1). No sleepless nights but a bit whingey. Not terrible at all, no fevers but a bit itchy.

DD1 didn't suffer too much either come to think of it. (mind you she has had shingles 4 times since)

yes i think it may be middle son developed mild chicken pox and we trotted off to the docs ....copious amounts of calomine lotion she said ....buy double ......why? we asked
in 14 days your eldest will get them too.....day 14 eldest sons 5th birthday ...he woke up covered in em !!!

forgot to say neither were ill with it just scabby

she slept all night and never woke up crying - she did wake about 1AM, giggling to her cuddlies in bed and 'chatting' in 2-year-old speak.

we just left her to lie in this morning.

i'm sitting here with DD1 and 'Cbeebies'.

Poor soul!

As long as she's given her Piriton and kept slathered in calamine cream she's reasonably okay, just a bit grumpy understandably.

But she's got them ALL OVER her face! Including her eyelids, and those ones she finds very irritating.

Thankfully the weather is very mild, so she can go about in short sleeves.

But we'll be happy to see the back of chickenpox in this house!