Oh no, monkey pox at camp?

[Anonymous]

Get your kids some calamine lotion lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has covid but you still sent him to camp?

He came home from camp with COVID. Did not have it when he left home 2 weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

Covid can cause skin rashes or blisters. Hopefully it's just covid only.

[Anonymous]

It could also be poison ivy, oak, or mollescum, which can present in different ways in different people. Given the timeline I doubt it's monkeypox, but make an appointment with their doctor ASAP!

[Anonymous]

OP I completely get the worry. But monkeypox is still very rare. Not saying it will stay that way - I don’t know. But the risk is tiny right now for your kid.

[Anonymous]

I suspect this is a troll post. If not, just an overanxious mom (and you should do something about this before your anxiety rubs off on your kids - really).

Your kid 99.99999% does not have monkey pox. Call your doctor, who will explain what they do have (something else like poison ivy, mollescum, or a bug bite).

[Anonymous]

I don't know why you all are denying the possibility. We want this mom to behave responsibly. Monkeypox is spreading like crazy and has been seen in children. This very well could be monkeypox. Isolate your kid and wear disposable gloves when you handle his things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why you all are denying the possibility. We want this mom to behave responsibly. Monkeypox is spreading like crazy and has been seen in children. This very well could be monkeypox. Isolate your kid and wear disposable gloves when you handle his things.

It's not spreading "like crazy". It's a slow burn.

[Anonymous]

You think your kid got Covid AND Monkeypox at camp?????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why you all are denying the possibility. We want this mom to behave responsibly. Monkeypox is spreading like crazy and has been seen in children. This very well could be monkeypox. Isolate your kid and wear disposable gloves when you handle his things.

It's not spreading "like crazy". It's a slow burn.

NP. What? A slowburn in textbooks perhaps. In 2022, it's growing exponentially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is accompanied by a host of other symptoms not just a pox/blister.
Abd pixes are in clusters, no? It's not just 1 here and 1 there. It's like any other pox virus where it's a bunch of blisters and all over

Does your kid have a fever, aches, exhaustion, and such?

Also, these poxes don't appear over night. If it truly is monkeypox, he would have been infected 1 week+ ago.
How long has he been at camp?

And presumably he would have been infected via dirty linens or clothes...was he swapping clothes with another kid?

This is not true, btw. My brother had chicken pox as a child, with a total of 4 blisters. But every single one of them left a permanent mark, they were big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is accompanied by a host of other symptoms not just a pox/blister.
Abd pixes are in clusters, no? It's not just 1 here and 1 there. It's like any other pox virus where it's a bunch of blisters and all over

Does your kid have a fever, aches, exhaustion, and such?

Also, these poxes don't appear over night. If it truly is monkeypox, he would have been infected 1 week+ ago.
How long has he been at camp?

And presumably he would have been infected via dirty linens or clothes...was he swapping clothes with another kid?

He has a fever and congestion and also has COVID. Was at camp for 2 weeks. I picked him up today and he showed me the lesion on his leg and it looks like the other one is forming on his arm. His pack got wet on an overnight hiking trip and he borrowed someone else’s clothes on Wed bc all of this stuff was wet.

So he wore someone's clean clothes on Wed and lesions today? That is too short of an incubation period for monkeypox.

Also, if your kid is Covid + your pediatrician and any urgent care place won't let you into the office.
It would have to be a tele-health appt.

There is really nothing compelling that would make it monkey pox Sounds like maybe a spider bite, an infected cut, infrcted ingrown hair, or any other topical skin irritant (poison ivy).

Nonesense.... Our pediatrician has been doing covid tests and even examining covid-positive patients INSIDE (just through a separate entrance) for a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Monkeypox is accompanied by a host of other symptoms not just a pox/blister.
Abd pixes are in clusters, no? It's not just 1 here and 1 there. It's like any other pox virus where it's a bunch of blisters and all over

Does your kid have a fever, aches, exhaustion, and such?

Also, these poxes don't appear over night. If it truly is monkeypox, he would have been infected 1 week+ ago.
How long has he been at camp?

And presumably he would have been infected via dirty linens or clothes...was he swapping clothes with another kid?

He has a fever and congestion and also has COVID. Was at camp for 2 weeks. I picked him up today and he showed me the lesion on his leg and it looks like the other one is forming on his arm. His pack got wet on an overnight hiking trip and he borrowed someone else’s clothes on Wed bc all of this stuff was wet.

I suppose COVID could mask/confuse/duplicate the symptoms of Monkeypox. That said, COVID is the expected result of sleepaway camp this soon after a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

1. Call the doctor; it might just be Covid but it can’t hurt.

2. Even if it is monkeypox the likelihood of truly bad outcomes is low assuming decent medical care and there are both vaccines and antivirals should your family need them.

[Anonymous]

More likely it’s MERSA.