Chicken pox or what?!
Question: I awoke last night with bite like marks on my stomach, hips, ankles and back. Our animals are always treated for fleas and in 7 yrs we have never had flea bites. I am 31 and had chicken pox mildly when I was 5. I was around someone the other who may have had chicken pox but my bumps don't look ***** (atleast yet anyway). They look like a mosquito bite just less itchy at the moment. I have been sick the past week, caughing, having trouble breathing but have not started any new medication. I don't believe this is any type of allergic reaction. I hate to go to the Dr. if it's nothing but I also want to go cause if it's chicken pox I don't want to spread it. The other 2 family members woke up with nothing on their bodies. My daughter has had the chicken pox vaccine. Do chicken pox blister right away?Ok, now itching again, it comes and goes. Been running a fever. When I search for pictures, they all look the same, I can't tell. Any insite would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
Answers: I awoke last night with bite like marks on my stomach, hips, ankles and back. Our animals are always treated for fleas and in 7 yrs we have never had flea bites. I am 31 and had chicken pox mildly when I was 5. I was around someone the other who may have had chicken pox but my bumps don't look ***** (atleast yet anyway). They look like a mosquito bite just less itchy at the moment. I have been sick the past week, caughing, having trouble breathing but have not started any new medication. I don't believe this is any type of allergic reaction. I hate to go to the Dr. if it's nothing but I also want to go cause if it's chicken pox I don't want to spread it. The other 2 family members woke up with nothing on their bodies. My daughter has had the chicken pox vaccine. Do chicken pox blister right away?Ok, now itching again, it comes and goes. Been running a fever. When I search for pictures, they all look the same, I can't tell. Any insite would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance.
Recurrences of chicken pox do occur if the initial case was very mild, but rarely. The lesions look initially like pink bumps, but within a day they blister and rapidly crust over. Lesions may be in various stages. Fever is usually mild, except in cases where the outbreak is severe.
Are you sure you don't have hives? They can be due to allergies, and sometimes even result from viral infections. Bed bug infestations have been in the news lately, but they do not cause fever. Sorry, that's the best I can do.
Since you woke up with these bite-like marks, and no one else has them, I would suggest you look into bed bugs/bedbugs being the cause. I know that sounds gross, but they are more common than people think.
Since everyone's immune systems and body chemistries are different, there can be many different manifestations clinically, histologically, and immunologically. The bites on one person may look very different from the bites on another person.
If you have a significant other that sleeps in the same bed, but he/she doesn't seem to have the bites, it is possible that you are on the