Oh no, monkey pox at camp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

If the child already has lesions, it's too late for the vaccine for them, but it may be time for the rest of the family, and the families of all the campers/counselors the child was in contact with.

The likelihood of truly bad outcomes is NOT LOW in a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

[Anonymous]

It’s probably not the pox, but it absolutely can show up as one or two lesions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

That’s not the only mode of transmission. It can spread through the respiratory system or by contact with items used by the infected person, like sheets and towels.

[Anonymous]

It is much more likely to be molluscum than monkeypox. One is widespread and common in kids. The other one is not.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/blog/2011/12/molluscum-contagiosum-common-viral-skin-condition-children

[Anonymous]

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

+1 my kid had a covid rash. Claritin cleared it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

That’s not the only mode of transmission. It can spread through the respiratory system or by contact with items used by the infected person, like sheets and towels.

It is, BY FAR, the most common mode of transmission.

[Anonymous]

If you want some objective info on monkeypox generally, this podcast will kill you sid a good episode recently:

http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2022/07/12/ep-100-monkeypox-here-we-go-again/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is much more likely to be molluscum than monkeypox. One is widespread and common in kids. The other one is not.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/blog/2011/12/molluscum-contagiosum-common-viral-skin-condition-children

The lesions do resemble molluscum but the internet said these lesions appear 7 weeks after exposure - I don’t know where he would have been exposed 7 weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

That’s not the only mode of transmission. It can spread through the respiratory system or by contact with items used by the infected person, like sheets and towels.

It is, BY FAR, the most common mode of transmission.

Right, just like "being in China" was the most common mode of transmission of COVID in February 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

That’s not the only mode of transmission. It can spread through the respiratory system or by contact with items used by the infected person, like sheets and towels.

It is, BY FAR, the most common mode of transmission.

They know very little about mode of transmission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is much more likely to be molluscum than monkeypox. One is widespread and common in kids. The other one is not.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/blog/2011/12/molluscum-contagiosum-common-viral-skin-condition-children

The lesions do resemble molluscum but the internet said these lesions appear 7 weeks after exposure - I don’t know where he would have been exposed 7 weeks ago.

You can get molluscum anywhere. Most of the time people have no idea where their kid got it. And many many kids get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is much more likely to be molluscum than monkeypox. One is widespread and common in kids. The other one is not.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/blog/2011/12/molluscum-contagiosum-common-viral-skin-condition-children

The lesions do resemble molluscum but the internet said these lesions appear 7 weeks after exposure - I don’t know where he would have been exposed 7 weeks ago.

Um, anywhere.

My kid acquired Molluscum during the spring/school year.

I’d rather deal with monkey pox than Molluscum. It takes forever to clear.

I’d ask a DR to culture it. It could be MRSA/staph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a troll.

Not a troll. Just a mom who is freaking out that her kid might have monkey pox.

Did you ask your kid if he had prolonged skin to skin contact with another person? This seems like a bigger issue to me…

That’s not the only mode of transmission. It can spread through the respiratory system or by contact with items used by the infected person, like sheets and towels.

It is, BY FAR, the most common mode of transmission.

Doesn’t change the fact that the other modes exist. And a kid at camp is very likely to have gotten it from a shared towel or shared breathing space. Or even skin-to-skin contact from roughhousing with another kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is much more likely to be molluscum than monkeypox. One is widespread and common in kids. The other one is not.

https://www.texaschildrens.org/blog/2011/12/molluscum-contagiosum-common-viral-skin-condition-children

The lesions do resemble molluscum but the internet said these lesions appear 7 weeks after exposure - I don’t know where he would have been exposed 7 weeks ago.

You can get molluscum anywhere. Most of the time people have no idea where their kid got it. And many many kids get it.

Molluscum is super common at summer pools. Cover each bump with a bandage so it doesn’t spread.