Chicken pox or hives?

my 21 month old work up yesterday next to 2 insect looking bumps on his legs. after his nap, he have 5 new ones. i took him to the hospital and they stated it be chicken pox. this morning he has more but here are more like a pimple very soon then blisters. i'm second guessing the hospitals view. does anyone have any thoughts. he have a low grade disorientation but he's been fine hum level.


Answers:    Sounds resembling Chicken Pox to me. The spots come in batch, and then they blister (these can certainly hurt locally) and burst and scab over. Once they are all scabbed over he's no longer infectious. Make sure he doesn't score them though as they will scar.

He's be infectious for the last 21 days or so already, so permit people know he's get the spots, as incubation is another 21 days or longer. Especially let those know who are any pregnant (it can affect an unborn baby), or elderly, or have young at heart children too.

People with low immunity (like the above) are at risk of having shingles, which is the chicken pox virus re-activated.

You'll probably find that he feel quite OK most of the time, but if he's specially itchy or the spots are sore, dab some antiseptic cream on them (something beside a local anaesthetic in) to take his mind stale them completely. In my experience calamine lotion does nothing except dry on the skin, its worse than useless as it can construct sensitive childrens skin tickle!

If he can't sleep, then a children's antihistamine soft will help.
Chicken pox! Fever along next to the spots. Defiantly Chicken Pox! As long as he has a confusion he is contagious.


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