Help with infected chickenpox

[70toes]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I've searched through the archives and didn't see anything helpful.
My son is 4 and on day 2 of chickenpox. He's acting fine, but there are 2 spots (1 behind the knee and 1 on the cheek) that I'm quite certain are infected. The skin surrounding each spot is bright red and one of the spots has a little red dot in the middle. Both of them are puss colored, but I'm assuming that's normal. He says they're both REALLY sore. I can touch the other spots with no problem but at the smallest graze of those he's pulling back and saying it hurts. So what can I do and how serious can this get? Do you have any ideas for something I can put on them here at home or something I can give him to help him fight this? TIA!

[Crafty]

I don't want to scare you, but I've heard of some kids getting secondary MRSA infections with the pox. That can obviously be pretty serious. I'd probably put a call into your regular health care provider. I hope your little one feels better soon. Infected sores aren't something I'd want to mess around with.

[sbgrace]

That sounds very much like possible staph. I'd take him in and get some bactroban cream. You don't want to be one of the chicken pox complications--better to get this treated at the outset.