So a friend of mine gets these little red spots on her torso and scalp. They itch. She's running a low-grade fever and feels bad. So you'd think she has the chicken pox. We'll she thinks that and calls the doctor. She's annoyed because adults aren't the ones who are supposed to deal with chicken pox. She sees the doctor and the doctor says it is definitely NOT chicken pox. My friend asks what it is then. The doctor says he doesn't know, but it is not the chicken pox. He tells her to go home and rest.
A couple weeks before this happened to her, her boyfriend got the exact same symptoms. He too was told it was not chicken pox and that they don't know what it is.
About a year or so ago a little girl had come into my office. She had these little red spots on her scalp that itched and she was running a little fever. The mom thought it was chicken pox and called the doctor. The nurse said it sounded like chicken pox and told her not to bring the little girl in because they didn't want it spread around the office. If things got bad, go to the hospital. Anyhow, the nurse calls back later and says that they went through the little girl's file and found out she had received the chicken pox vaccine. The nurse says it therefore cannot be chicken pox and tells the mom to bring the girl in. The doctor tells the mom it is some kind of scalp condition or something like that, but definitely not chicken pox.
So now I personally know 3 people who had something that walks like chicken pox and quacks like chicken pox but is definitely not chicken pox.
I'm watching chicken pox incidence numbers being reduced right before my very eyes. Now I don't doubt that they will figure out a way to give enough shots or put enough whatever in those shots to make the symptoms of chicken pox morph into something else that will become chronic, but this is getting silly.
A couple weeks before this happened to her, her boyfriend got the exact same symptoms. He too was told it was not chicken pox and that they don't know what it is.
About a year or so ago a little girl had come into my office. She had these little red spots on her scalp that itched and she was running a little fever. The mom thought it was chicken pox and called the doctor. The nurse said it sounded like chicken pox and told her not to bring the little girl in because they didn't want it spread around the office. If things got bad, go to the hospital. Anyhow, the nurse calls back later and says that they went through the little girl's file and found out she had received the chicken pox vaccine. The nurse says it therefore cannot be chicken pox and tells the mom to bring the girl in. The doctor tells the mom it is some kind of scalp condition or something like that, but definitely not chicken pox.
So now I personally know 3 people who had something that walks like chicken pox and quacks like chicken pox but is definitely not chicken pox.
I'm watching chicken pox incidence numbers being reduced right before my very eyes. Now I don't doubt that they will figure out a way to give enough shots or put enough whatever in those shots to make the symptoms of chicken pox morph into something else that will become chronic, but this is getting silly.
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