The message is loud and clear, the measles is not chicken pox. Do not expose your kids to it. Tell your kids to stay away from other kids who are coughing.
The message is loud and clear, the measles is not chicken pox. Do not expose your kids to it. Tell your kids to stay away from other kids who are coughing.
TIL why my mom always checked my throats for spots whenever we mentioned any kind of not feeling well. First thing she did. I always assumed it was just a strep thing, but she grew up in a time when measles was still an active threat. I just remember white spots in the throat being the biggest thing. No white spots, go to bed. White spots, go to doctor.
Fun fact: I ignored that advice in my late twenties and ended up with scarlet fever. Like a fucking Victorian child. Didn’t even know scarlet fever was still a thing.
You dope. White spots = strep = you get antibiotics and start feeling better fast! No spots, it’s a virus and you have to suffer through it for 2 weeks.
And of course, as you said, strep can become scarlet fever, where you stand defiantly in the sunset thinking (but not declaring, because your throat hurts) “as God is mah witness, Ah’ll nevah leave strep untreated again!”
Glad you survived.