Single chickenpox?

[Gt1986]

Hiya,

This has been asked many times before I am sure.

DS 9 months vomited on Saturday and has been down on his milk intake over the last week ish, (started nursery at 7 months and has caught every virus going- slapped cheek was 2 weeks ago 😳).

His cough that was starting to subside came back. Monday we notice one red spot on his back. Monday night he's very unsettled, and has a temp yest morning. His temp spikes at 39.2 yesterday pm and his single spot looks like this. He's really unwell, sleeping all thr time, cough, runny nose etc. But just 1 spot at the moment. Mainly crying, sleeping and feeding intermittently at present.

Chicken pox had been confirmed at nursery and would have been present before he was off for slapped cheek.

Thanks!

It does look like a blister, so I’d say so. My DS had one blister on his tummy and several red spots. That’s all he got for chicken pox, along with generally unwell.

If he is that poorly and had chicken pox, I would assume he would have a lot more spots. Mine have sometimes gotten spots that looked suspiciously like chicken pox with other viral infections, but only a couple and they vanished within a couple days with no crusting over. If he doesn’t get more and they don’t behave like chicken pox (blister, crusting over, fading in a week or so), I think it’s just a random rashy spot.

Had Chickenpox as a teenager, I was covered and my brother had three spots! More the look of the spot and how it behaves, then how many with this disease.

Just taken this pic of something at the bottom of his back, looks like another!

My eldest daughter had one chickenpox spot on her back. Her brother and sister were pickled with it, which is the only way I knew she'd even got it. I thought it might mean that she'd get it again but her other brother and sister caught it when she was about seven and she didn't.

Eldest DD was covered when she got it - youngest only had about three spots (and was under 1, so we have no idea whether she is actually immune).

You might find a few more appear throughout the next day or two.