Chicken pox

Evening all.

Round my way, quite a few of the local kids have been going through the chicken pox. Now my lad is covered in red spots. He has been itching a bit, but apart from that he is his usual crazy self.

What's the protocol? Are we supposed to take him to the doctors despite him appearing to feel fine? Do we wait and see how it goes? Or do we just accept that its a normal 'rite of passage' and just paint him in calamine lotion and ride it out?

I reckon the latter, but wife is all for dragging him off to the doctors. My dad agrees with me, whereas wife's mam agrees with wife. So far it seems the womenfolk are in favour of the doctors, whereas the menfolk (so far me and my dad) reckon we just ride it out as there's nowt the GP can do.

Of course we're only assuming its the pox. He's all vaccinated up and he is acting normal (for a mentalist 3 year old) so I can't see it being anything else.

 

You want peace in the house?? do what the wife asks...... know you know that was a silly q dont you hope the kids better soon, and the doctor will tell you to do exactly what you was going to do

 

As long as he continues to be ok in himself I'd just 'ride it out' too...

My step-daughter (who's 17) will go to the doctors for any little complaint, I keep telling her she's waisting the doctors time as she usually gets told what we try and recommend in the first place. She's currently suffering from a bad case of man-flu...

 

Hope he gets well soon Clueless .. tell him not to scratch the spots on his face as this can lead to small scars .. i would take him to see the Doctor for peace of mind mate...
there may be something better now than Calomine lotion ... Micky





Round my way, quite a few of the local kids have been going through the chicken pox. Now my lad is covered in red spots. He has been itching a bit, but apart from that he is his usual crazy self.

What's the protocol? Are we supposed to take him to the doctors despite him appearing to feel fine? Do we wait and see how it goes? Or do we just accept that its a normal 'rite of passage' and just paint him in calamine lotion and ride it out?

I reckon the latter, but wife is all for dragging him off to the doctors. My dad agrees with me, whereas wife's mam agrees with wife. So far it seems the womenfolk are in favour of the doctors, whereas the menfolk (so far me and my dad) reckon we just ride it out as there's nowt the GP can do.

Of course we're only assuming its the pox. He's all vaccinated up and he is acting normal (for a mentalist 3 year old) so I can't see it being anything else.[/quote]

 

It sounds like he'll just sail through it, Clueless. Some children are ill with chickenpox but others just shrug it off. My son got iy shortly after he started at infants' school. He had about three spots and was whizzing around like a mad thing as per normal. His school, however, didn't want him back for ages, so he got an extra holiday and we got extra complications with childcare. At least you're getting it out of the way early.

 

Think the Docs will go Batshite if you bring Chicken Pox into the surgery, if there are any elderly patients in there that haven't been in contact with it, it could take them out.

Phone the surgery first, see what they say, then you'll have a definate answer for SWMBO.

 

Thanks all.

I think I've pretty much convinced wife to just ride it out. If she needs to hear it from a medic I'll tell her to phone up.

Its easy to be over cautious with kids, but if the kid is still eating well, running around like a loony as per normal, giggling, tormenting his dad, digging in the garden, etc etc, then I'm pretty sure there is nothing to worry about. He'll be staying off nursery this week, just because they are not allowed to go when they have the pox.

 

I remember it Dave, it itched like hell but I got over it. Evil wife didn't get it till her 30's & really suffered with it. She's still got the pox marks all over too. Not good to get when you are older.

 

It used to be a reportable disease, but I'm not sure about that now. I'd ring the surgery just to check, but I don't suppose they'll want to see him.

Like Ziggy says it's not nice to catch as an adult, my other half got it and was off work for six weeks, he was really ill with it.

 

Would you believe it. If you were going to get some really, really bad medical advice from somewhere, would you expect it to be from our good old NHS? I didn't.

It seems the NHS has a forum. Fair enough. Like any forum, there will be posts on it that are not the best advice, and like most, there is the ability to report a post.

So, when I came across this very well intentioned post, naturally I wanted to save a lot of kids from avoidable physical pain.

For some people, neat peppermint oil will have very little reaction with the skin, so may well work to soothe itching. However for many others, neat peppermint oil reacts with the skin to cause an intense burning sensation. Very painful indeed.

The poster was well intentioned. I only quote a bit of their post, but they say how it worked on their kid, and I have no doubts at all that it was posted in good faith, but it is wrong. So I clicked the report button, and pointed this out. 2 whole days passed and I get an email saying the content has been reviewed and modified. No it hasn't. The NHS is still advocating the use of neat peppermint oil on kids. For some it might work, for others, well its just plain cruel. Still, I guess that's the NHS these days. Seriously under funded and resorting to the use of untrained volunteers to dispense medical advice.

 

Scary stuff.

Did you have the pox when you were younger Dave?