Chicken Pox
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Topic: Chicken Pox
Posted By: hannibal
Subject: Chicken Pox
Date Posted: 30 December 2010 at 8:24pm
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Hi,
We have spots - we had one or two on Tuesday, a few more yesterday and today alot more - how many days do they take to come out??? and how many days after do they take to go away? Do they are blister or are some just red spots? |
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 1:15am
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From memory Jackson had sports appearing on day 4 but no new ones from day 5. It took about 2 weeks for them to clear completely and now he has some scaring, which Im hoping he will grow out of.
CP spots are blisters and are filled with fluid. If they are just red sports that wont be CP, but possibly hand foot and mouth. ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 4:08am
| Chicken pox- red spots that develop fluid-filled blisters in the centre, though some may look like just red spots if the blister bursts by being rubbed by clothing etc. Normally appear over a few days, takes about 5days for each to crust over, once they've all scabbed then you're no longer contagious. Then it's normally about 2weeks after that they heal completely, as long as they've not got infected or been picked at. (Which is near impossible.) Hope all's well soon, =). |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 7:00am
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It can take up to 3 weeks before the spots appear & about 2 weeks till they scab over.
It is not very conmen to get them again as a child & could depend on the dose they had. DS3 had them this yr & a very mild does. I did not identify them as CP at first as they came up slowly & only had a couple on his face which 1 has left a scar. His seamed to come up 1 at a time. DS1 got them when he was 3, he had a couple on his body to start with then a couple of hours later he was covered head to toe & was very sick, he had a server dose where he was delirious, vomiting, high temps..it was a nightmare. We had a few trips to the Dr here we had to stay most of the day for monitoring & to get his temp down (lived in the country), DS2 was 3 weeks old then & fully BF & got 6 spots on feet. The Dr said he was the youngest baby he had seen them on & was surprised he got them. He is 6 now & has never had them again. After my experience with DS1 we had decided to get DS3 the CP vaccine but he came out in spots before we were to have it done & I was so relived it was nowhere near as bad as DS1 dose. |
Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 9:21am
| More spots this morning, so are filled with fluid but others are just red. Is it good to give them warm baths - does this help bring them out? |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 10:18am
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go to the docs..
nothing will make them come out before they are ready to. but a bath with baking soda or oat meal can help with itchiness. |
Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 11:23am
| Def go to Dr, you may get scripts for pinetarsol bath, calamine lotion & histafen for if it all gets a bit too much. I had them at 2weeks old then got them again at 7 & 11. Ds has had them twice as well. Dr said it's not unusual to get them more than once, just you don't normally get the full-blown symptoms each time, e.g sometimes just coughing & fever, no spots. Ds had mild dose first then head to toe second time. I heard the vaccine has to be boosted every 10y, anyone know? |
Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 11:29am
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We've just been through CP here, started off looking like lots of flea bites! Then about a week after they appeared they started to fill with fluid, and within another week they'd started to scab over (from memory it took about 2 weeks from first spots appearing, to last spot appearing, so close to 3 weeks from first spot appearing to last spot scabbing over)
Incubation period is up to 24 days, so anyone you have been in contact with 3 weeks prior to spots starting to appear will need to be warned to be on the lookout for spots on their littlies  Amazingly Jae was in contact with a lot of kiddies (it took at least a week for me to realise the 'flea bites' were actually CP  ), and so far to my knowledge none of them have gotten CP from her  ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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