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Is Skin Rashes With Itching Sign For Skin Reaction To Chicken Pox?

Hi, my little one, she s 2, was prescribed flucloxacillin today. She s got very bad skin rash, it looks like small ulcers and complaints that it hurts and is itchy. Her brother just had chicken pox.. Could she have very bad skin reaction to chicken pox? She has no spots yet only this strange skin reaction and a bit of temperature, apart from that she s full of beans, eating and drinking normally. Please advise
posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2014
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Stop Flucloxacillin today , the itching and reaction is due to drug allergy and not chicken pox. If antibiotics are required only Azithromycin can be prescribed now. Give him Syr Atarax 4 ml three times per day to get the reaction down. If rashes appears inside the oral cavity, take him to ER as breathing problems could appear.
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Is Skin Rashes With Itching Sign For Skin Reaction To Chicken Pox?

Stop Flucloxacillin today , the itching and reaction is due to drug allergy and not chicken pox. If antibiotics are required only Azithromycin can be prescribed now. Give him Syr Atarax 4 ml three times per day to get the reaction down. If rashes appears inside the oral cavity, take him to ER as breathing problems could appear.