Chicken pox of flea bites?

My dog recently had fleas and slept in my bed. This week I started seeing red spots on my side legs and arms and I have come down with a sore throat, headache, congestion, slight coughing and general sick feeling. My doctor wrote it off as a sinus infection. I also had the chicken pox shot.

I am not sure if i have flea bites or a mild case of the chicken pox. Does anyone know a way of differentiating between the two?

i got the vaccine a month or two ago. it was fairly recent.

You don't say when you had the chicken pox vaccine, so if it was recently you might be expericance a mild case of it. For chickenpox, the rash begins as multiple small, red bumps that look like pimples or insect bites, then turn into blisters filled with clear fluid, which becomes cloudy. The blister wall breaks, leaving open sores, which finally crust over to become dry, brown scabs.
Chickenpox blisters are usually less than a quarter of an inch wide and flu like symptoms can occur

Flea bites produce a Rash with small bumps that itch and may bleed they are usally Located on the armpit or fold of a joint (at the elbow, knee, or ankle)
The amount of skin affected increases over time (enlarging skin rash or lesion) or the rash spreads to other areas
When pressed the area turns white (blanches to touch)
Itching can be severe
Itching can be generalized or restricted to a skin rash

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