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My son is 4. He has been a little off colour for a while. Today when he came home from school he had a spot behind his ear. He got very hot and grumpy said he felt sick, and fell asleep on me. He woke up a couple of hours later still grumpy and I gave him some medicine. Then I noticed a few blisters on his back, little fluid filled blisters. They looked like chicken pox blisters. I had to go out for a couple of hours, and when I got back the blisters had burst, and a few more were forming. I thought he had cp but not so sure now as even though he has been very much in contact with it, the blisters are supposed to last a couple of days before bursting, and be very itchy, these are not bothering him at all and are only staying as blisters for a couple of hours. He has also perked up a lot even though the medicine would have worn off hours ago! I am very confused. I cant easily take him to our dr as we are between drs at the moment as we have recently moved house and dont have the neccesary id to register with the local surgery. I could take him to the emergency drs, but it seems to ridicuous as he doesnt seem ill! It is his last ever day at pre school tomorrow, before he goes up to primary school and he is desperate to go to his leavers party, but I dont know what to do for the best! Any advice? Can cp last only a short while?
Yes he has had a fever, but that too seems to have gone by this evening, he was vomiting a couple of days ago, and said he felt nauseous today, but thats all, and chicken pox is all over his school at the moment, his classmates have almost all had it one after the other for the last three months! He still has the marks from the blisters, little red scabs, and more blisters have been appearing, starting as little red spots. Part of me is hoping it is cp, as he is due to have surgery next month and I would rather he got it out of the way before then! I am just so confused as everything I have read, and been told by other mums says that cp spots take a few days to burst and scab over, not a couple of hours, and are always itchy so its really confusng me!
He is four and a half, we are in the uk and we dont vaccinate kids against chicken pox routinely here, no idea why, but he has problems with vaccinations anyway so would probably not have been allowed it anyway. Kids here pretty much all get cp at some stage and its never been regarded as a serious condition, more just annoying so I guess thats why we have no vaccination programme here!
Chicken pox is not a serious condition for children, its a very common childhood illness and not something that is worried about here. I have always been of the opinion that adults should take neccesary measures to protect themselves rather than pumping babies full of vaccine to protect them, but thats just my opinion. In the UK we are all told to vaccinate our kids against measles, mumps and rubella. Rubella is rarly dangerous to children, we vaccinate to protect the pregnant women. I believe anyone planning a pregnancy should make sure they have the relevant vaccinaiton themselves before getting pregnant, which all women here should as we vaccinate girls at 11 against it to protect themselves as women! Mumps can occasionally make men sterile if they get it in older life, as I believe chicken pox occasionally does too, but it is a relatively rare complicaiton, here at least, as most people get chicken pox as kids here so its not a worry! Either way my son would not have been allowed the cp vaccine as he has a very bad record with vaccinations, After his first ever baby jabs he ended up in intensive care for a week on life support, and after the mmr vaccine, which he only had 2 years after he was supposed to, he went almost completely deaf and is having surgery next month to try to fix it. He is now not allowed vaccinations! I wont jeopardise his life to possibly prevent a grown man from becoming sterile!
Anyway, rant over lol! He does have chicken pox, but he is still not actually ill! He has more and more spots but no more sign of fever, no itching and he didnt have to miss his pre school leavers party as the pre school were happy for him to stay and join in! If it wasnt for the spots you wouldnt know the kid was poorly!
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