{"id":545,"date":"2013-05-09T10:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:53:32","slug":"chicken-pox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/chicken-pox\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Pox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were getting ready for preschool on Thursday 2nd May and I noticed a couple of red spots on Ben&#8217;s back and tummy. \u00a0After lifting his top I could see a couple of blisters as well and it was quite obvious Ben had Chicken Pox. \u00a0He only had about 10 at this time and I was hoping it would just be a mild case but little did we all know. \u00a0I rang the preschool to let them know I thought it was pox and they told me another child had been off ealier that week with Chicken Pox too, so that must be where Ben caught it from.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next two days, more and more spots appeared and Ben ended up literally pickled in them from head to toe, including on his gums in his throat and in and on his eyes. \u00a0We could not believe it, right on Aaron&#8217;s 2nd Birthday and I was worried I may catch them as I never caught them as a child. \u00a0Unfortunately this meant some family could not attend Aaron&#8217;s Birthday celebration. \u00a0Ben luckily wasn&#8217;t too poorly with it, he was very itchy and was feeling cold and tired a lot. \u00a0We treated his spots with vira-soothe gel and bicarbonate of soda in cool baths. \u00a0He also took Piriton which seemed to help ease the itching.<\/p>\n<p>A week later and whilst Ben still looks very spotty, they are all drying up nicely. \u00a0Aaron and myself escaped and Ben&#8217;s only real complaint is that he can&#8217;t go to preschool!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-548 alignright\" title=\"Spotty Ben - back\" src=\"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-back1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-back1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-back1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-front-600x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-546 alignleft\" title=\"Spotty Ben - front\" src=\"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-front-600x800-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-front-600x800-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/spotty-front-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were getting ready for preschool on Thursday 2nd May and I noticed a couple of red spots on Ben&#8217;s back and tummy. \u00a0After lifting his top I could see a couple of blisters as well and it was quite obvious Ben had Chicken Pox. \u00a0He only had about 10 at this time and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[262],"tags":[309,306,308,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}