The Smell of Little Pong

Freyja's Chicken Pox

This was taken on one of her worst days:


This was when she was on the road to recovery - first bath in almost a week:


Although she was pretty covered in spots - her back and nappy area being the worst - she wasn't too ill with it. She had three cranky, irritable days and she was a bit itchy but we gave her Piriton, which helped. She's quite proud of her spots now.

For anyone who is interested, I told the paediatrician in the hospital after Theo was born that his sister had just come out in chicken pox. He went to look into it, to see if Theo would need to be given an injection to give him temporary immunity, but the verdict was that as I had had it he would be protected by my antibodies. And so far so good - he's not come out in spots yet!

Update: Theo did come out in spots about a week later. It was very mild - only 5 spots in total and no other symptoms, although he was still contagious. We took him to the doctor who said it was unusual, but not impossible. She said my antibodies should prevent it getting worse and we just had to keep an eye on him for a few days to make sure he didn't get suddenly ill. And although he caught it, because it was so mild, he may not have been left immune to it.

posted by solveig @ 12:52 PM