Hi HM, my 3 children all had THE POX back to back around November time. If it is then the spots will spread everywhere (if not today then by tomorrow). They will start off like little red spots and then get bumpy and hot and maybe itchy. Then they will crust and fall off.
The whole process was about 4-5 days I think with each of mine having one terrible night where they slept little.
Having just seen it, 3 times over I can say it was horrible having them all with it, overlapping BUT now I'm glad because it got it all out of the way.
My dds took it fairly bad with spots all over, in their front bottoms, up noses, in ears and all over their scalps. My ds took it worse.
I don't think it is complicated for babies (happy to be corrected) and in fact I think its better as some people have told me their babies had spots but no itch.
What can I recommend?
I will look back and find my posts then to remind me what I was using........but from memory I used, Calpol, but I also did Nurofen as its anti-inflammatory, Piriton (not Pririteze as its different I think).
My pharmacist also had a tub of aqueous calamine which was brilliant. Its so much easier than calamine lotion and the massaging when you rub it on can help the itch. Boots don't have it (they gave me a tube of something which was thicker and not so easy).
A friend also got me Rhus Tox (30c I think). Its a herbal thing, little white dots of sugary tasting stuff which you don't touch but pop onto a spoon and administer quite a lot of for the first 6 doses and then until symptoms are better. It seemed to make no difference to dd and ds but for DT1 it seemed to make a huge improvement overnight. Its meant to calm everything down. It made me feel better to feel I was fighting it with everything.
I'll pop in again soon to see how you/he is.