Saturday, August 2, 2008
Chicken Pox
Well we have had a busy week getting ready for the kids to go back to school next week and low and behold Joshua comes down with the chicken pox!!! He has had the shots so he isn't suppose to get them but he has them any way. Luckly they aren't a bad case - pretty mild - but try explaining to a 4 year old they can't play outside, they can't go to the water park with other kids, he can't go any where!! And then trying to explain why they are called chicken pox when I don't even know why they are called that - does anybody know the answer to that. But Joshua now has it in his head that he is going to grow feathers!!! Which that part is cute and to night he took an oatmeal bath and enjoyed playing in the tub. Hopefully we are on the down side but they say they are considered contagious till all the pox have scabbed over so he will be home a few more days. The interesting thing will be to see if any of the other get them in the next 9 to 14 days!! Do need to take some pictures of "chicken boy" for a scrapbook page!!
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Here's what I found on Wikopedia for an explanation of the name: hope that helps!
-Carita
There are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox:
Samuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "less dangerous", thus a "chicken" version of the pox;
the specks that appear looked as though the skin was pecked by chickens;
the disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions;
the term reflects a corruption of the Old English word giccin, which meant itching.
As "pox" also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.
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