Is "slapped cheek syndrome" really bad?

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DD has had it all week and apart from being sick on Sunday (which is a bad sign-we are a poorly botty family, not a sick family, so she's only ever been sick 3 times!) she has been fine except for being an absolute madam. I've been v hard on her about it because she seemed completely fine, but with an attitude-i.e. threw her entire bottle of medicane on the floor because she didn't like the taste, smacked me, bit me, spat her medicane in my face etc. She is normally my best friend and an absolute angel-I thought she was playing up because it is her birthday this week or because I am very stressed at the mo because my mum has just died and I am very upset about it, and I have had to miss two weeks of work arranging the funeral and things and now have had to take another week off this week, and have 3 presentations due tomorrow.
I'm coming across as a bad mum here, I always make time for her and we have so much fun together-was she pushing the boundaries like I thought or was she really ill and it was manifesting in behaviour? With chicken pox she was so ill she couldn't move, and she was full of energy this time. Help!

Most kids don't even know they have had it. it's dangerous for pregnant women though and can cause mc in early pregnancy.

It depends on the child I think.

When I had it as a child it went into my joints and I couldn't support myself to stand. I don't recall feeling desperately ill though, just my legs hurt and wouldn't work (I was about 6/7)

if she was seriously unwell she would not be doing all the things you describe so you have answered your own question really! Sounds like she is being naughty to get your attention which has obviously been taken up with other importtant matters. She weill be better soon, both healt wise and in terms of her behaviour I should think. Stay calm and remember you are doing a good job.

Oh thank goodness! I hate having to correct behvaiour as I'm always worried that I'm mentally scarring her, and woudl have felt even worse if she hadn't been playing up. I have a very short fuse once my normally long fuse burns out (after a few days of the same thing over and over), but it needs correcting non the less! We had a huge altercation this afternoon and I exploded (right in front of 3 of her nursery assistants-argh! We had gone in to check she could go in tomorrow) and she has been back to normal ever since, hooray!

My daughter (9) recently had slapped cheek and apart from a little itching was fine. It is going around her school right now and policy is as long as the child feels well there is no need to kee them away.

I got it a couple of weeks later and it went into my joints and it was very painful (and obvious, my fingers and feet were very swollen)

Why is it always worse when you are a grown up! It's silly! This is slightly off-topic but in heated altercation (some of which was witnessed by nursery nurses) dd kept telling me again and again and again that she hated me and wasn't my friend (this has been her motif of the week, in fact it has been repeated every three minutes since monday) so I said that I didn't want to be her friend and didn't like her at the moment either and just read on another thread that you should never do this. I was so fed up by this point and explained to her that it was her attitude that I didn't like and now feel like satan. Have told her time and time again since that she is wonderful and I love her and she seems to have forgotten it and hasn't said she hates me since-will she feel like I'm abandoning her and don't love her now?