Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Not the Pox afterall

Well, Clara does NOT have the chicken pox. She only had spots on her hands and feet, and only a few of them were actually blisters. There were little red dots on her legs, but they never changed into blisters and the ones she did have are going away. I looked at Dr. Sears' website and he says babies can have viruses that cause bumps that resemble chicken pox, but which will go away on their own with no treatment needed and it doesn't even need to be diagnosed. I wonder if it was an allergy to something, but I don't think she would have had a fever to go with it.

Just one of those mysterious childhood illnesses that only need a little TLC!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear that! Chicken pox in the hot summer would not be fun.
When are you starting school again for the boys? My kids still have 2 more weeks of summer, but Christian is really ready to go back. I'm sure that John and Madi are too, but of course neither would admit to that!