- The most common season is late winter and early spring.
- The incubation is anywhere from 10 to 21 days.
- Usually fever starts before the appearance of the bumps by 1 to 2 days.Â
- The contagious period starts 1 to 2 days before the appearance of the rash and ends when all the bumps are crusted, typically around 5 to 7 days.
- Never use aspirin with a child with chickenpox.
- Adults tend to suffer with more severe disease than children.
I think we picked it up from the grocery store. So far that is the only place I can think of. I didn’t notice the girls running a fever 1 or 2 days prior. The first symptom I noticed was the bumps and within hours a low grade fever.
Want to read a Politically Incorrect article about chicken pox??? See this article in Mothering Magazine called Chickenpox Party: Developing Natural Varicella Immunity
argh!! I SO WISH I WAS THERE!! we haven’t had CP yet and I REALLY want my kids to get it
sorry you have your hands full – but better now than shingles later!
You have ALL my sympathy. We will pray for you and your sanity. :o)
weird, I didn’t mean for that face to pop up, I’ll try again. 🙂
okay I guess thats better
Okay, I just got rebuked by your blog. It told me “you can only post one comment every 15 seconds. Slow down cowboy.”
I am tempted to go on a post-a-thon now
Can you tell I am feeling a little crazy too? This is a small window of time where the toddlers are playing [and not wrestling, screaming, fighting, etc] and the baby is napping…. breathe…
Haha…. “Slow down Cowboy!”
I like comments….
I already feel really bad for exposing our entire church to the Chicken pox… we have tons of children in the church and most of them have not had it…so church should be very interesting over the next couple of months.
Well I guess it would be a double edged sword for them. Tell them to make a fence with their offense. hahahhaa… bad joke i know….
oh i wouldn’t worry about it, beth. it is a normal, healthy, childhood disease. the families in your church should thank you for exposing their children to it.