The pox SUCKS!!! (My Experience of Chicken Pox)

Member Name: xnatalie81x

Product:	My Experience of Chicken Pox
Date:	08/02/09 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: Errrrr............. you get to spend time with your kids

Disadvantages: Your child looks like he/she has the plague, every1 wants to come over with their kids

Chicken pox sucks! My experience with this illness started the week before Christmas 2009. I awoke one Wednesday morning (the day my son was due to have his Christmas dinner at school) and my son told me he had a apot on his head. At 4.5 I thought it a little early to start getting spots but assumed it must be abite of somesort and carried on rushing around getting him ready for school. He was fine in himself. This was at 8.15am. I took him to the gates and he had a spot on his chin by the time we got there. Wow, i thought, he is turning into a pre-pubescent teen early. Thought nothing else of it and escorted him into his classroom. This is 9am and I am unaware of anything wrong!

At 10am the school calls me - an hour later mind! - can i please collect him as they suspect he has the pox - ok i think how on earth can they say that with 2 spots. How wrong was I. in the space of that hour he had over 50 spots!!!!!! - that is my first lesson with this illness 1. The child is not necessirily ill with it and 2. The spots appear quicker than my kids when they smell dinner cooking!

I understand now that they have cold like symtoms a few days before but it is very difficult to spot (spot get it ha ha) - my son missed his lunch and his xmas play. Lesson two was learnt here. There were 15/30 people off that week in his class - lesson chicken pox spreads like wildfire and in the stages before the spots and when the spots burst (bleugh) - my son didn't have it too bad but we were locked in the house, even the doctors didn't want us in their surgery for fear of him passing his lurgy to anyone else.

My daughter (2.5) then got her first spot on Boxing day. I had spent a week in hospital with the baby after having toxic shock, cam home xmas eve then boxing day woke to her with the spots. She was ill with it (or is it that girls are just drama queens) - i duly slapped on the aqueous calamine cream (much better than the lotion!) and dosed her with piriton as had done with son 1. The only problem being that as she was younger she could have less doses so her itching was worse and i found her to have a few more spots.

THREE days later my final child broke out in spots. Now he had it really bad. Over 100 spots just on his groin and legs. I am told that because he was run down from the toxic shock and was on medication 5 times a day it hit him harder. It was awful! I went form first child not bothered at all to a little moany girl to a sobbing baby in 4 weeks! Every child reacts differently and they all have it to varying degrees. Son and daughter's was pretty mild - baby was severe. We are 6 weeks on and baby still has little white scar type markings all over his body. The other 2 cleared up fine but poor bubba still looks like a throwback from the victorian times with the pox!

With baby i used the special oilatum (not standard one but the £11 one for excema) as advised by the nurse and it really made him more comfortable. This was along with the calamine cream and small doses of piriton.

Chicken pox when mild is a doddle. You just cannot go out and if you do people look at your child like they are infected with the plague but when they get it severely say goodbye to sleep, eating and anything apart from carrying your child around with you wherever you go!!!

Another annoyance is that any children who have not had chicken pox are informed by their parents that they must come play with yours so they can get the disease out of the way!

Summary: Pox is pants