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What is the visual difference between chicken pox and pityriasis rosea?

My 2 year old got diagnosed with pityriasis on Friday. However, my Dad is convinced its chicken pox.

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1. The symptoms are very different. Chicken pox starts out with a fever or flu-like symptoms. Next, a person breaks out with tiny blisters that itch and burn. Over a few days, the blisters turn red and then burst and form scabs. Pityriasis rosea starts as a bright red spot that expands into an increasing number of red spots. People may feel like they have a cold, or may have no symptoms other than spots. The red spots are usually a little itchy and slightly scaly, but they are nowhere near as uncomfortable as chicken pox.
2. small pearly white blisters , raised above the skin level surrounded by a rim of redness is the chikenpox lesion , it starts abruptly and soon spreads to cover the whole body and the child looks sick ,