Chook Me! - What are the initial symptoms of the chicken pox?

What are the initial symptoms of the chicken pox?

Other than the spots are there any other symptoms for the chicken pox? The spots have not appeared yet but held a baby yesterday who has them. I had the chicken pox and 2 or 3 years of age. Please help.

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Spots are really the only physical symptoms - but if you've already had them you are immune...
u get redish spots.... which start to itch....
fever like symptoms temperature etc but if u had them once u willl now be immune unless u only had a very mild case when u were younger.
Constant itch in a certain place but continues to spread. Also you may get a fever.
Feeling unwell - flu like. Sometimes a stiff neck and aches and pains. If you've had chicken pox you are unlikely to get it again.
Raging fever , Sweating and freezing cold, low energy. Then the pox come.
if you have had them you probably wouldn't get them again but it would take up to 2 weeks before you show any signs of having them you may itch and have a temperature
U got lill red spot which itch
chicken pox definitely has vescicular rashesh much more dominent over the chest and belly,face and back.Along with fever and malaise.
Symptoms begin about 2 weeks after initial exposure with about two days of fever, fatigue /malaise, and sore throat. About 24 hours after these initial symptoms, the rash begins, usually on the torso and then for a period of about 10 days, spreads outwards toward the head, arms and legs. The rash begins as a red bump that looks like a bug bite, then becomes a blister which later has pus in it and eventually scabs over. Here is a good website for more info.
spots will appear then t will have blisters on it.some got fever.
red spots, high fever, itching
You will probably not get them again, but the first symptoms are: slight fever, red spots, then itching red spots... You might get something simular to chicken pocks from it by the way... In that case you should see your doctor.
Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally begins with conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands and becoming itchy raw pockmarks, small open sores which heal mostly without scarring. Chickenpox has a 10-21 day incubation period and is spread easily through aerosolized droplets from the nasopharynx of ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash. Following primary infection there is usually lifelong protective immunity from further episodes of chickenpox. Chickenpox is rarely fatal, although it is generally more severe in adults than in children. Pregnant women and those with a suppressed immune system are at highest risk of serious complications. The most common late complication of chicken pox is shingles, caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus decades after the initial episode of chickenpox.
If you catch it as an adult you can feel really really ill with a high temperature. Some children get away with no symptoms at all. But the incubation time is 10 to 20 days! If you've had chickenpox once it is very unlikely that you should get it again.
often a headache out of no where is the main symptom.