Could my son have given me chickenpox?!

[MissB83]

Last Friday my son had the first dose of the chickenpox vaccine (privately). He has been under the weather but hasn't had any spots as yet. I know you can get a mild strain as it's a live vaccine. However I have come up in some very itchy spots in the last day or so!! I only had it very mildly as a child (the virus itself). Could he have given it to me, is that possible? I'm a bit worried mainly as I have a heavily pregnant colleague

It wouldn't present as fast as that. There is an incubation period of 10-21 days for chicken pox

I don't know if he could have given it to you if you already had it before, but you definitely can catch it from being near someone with the vaccine. Boots advised me not to vaccinate my toddlers because I had a baby under 1, and they said she was very likely to catch it from them.

You can certainly get shingles from chickenpox, but that would hurt a hell of a lot more than 'a few itchy spots'. I would guess you've probably got some form of psychosomatic symptom or an allergy to something? As PP said, chickenpox has a really long incubation period.

You can certainly get shingles from chickenpox

No you can't! You can get shingles if you have had chicken pox in the past,but chicken pox will not give you shingles by contact with it

That was indeed what I meant. OP said she'd already had chickenpox as a child, thus she CAN get shingles from chickenpox.

Ah wait, apologies. Monday brain. You're quite right pixie. It's that you can get chickenpox from shingles, not the other way around. I am sorry for the misinformation!

Actually if you only had it mildly as a child, you can catch it again. I know someone who's DD had it mildly and then caught it again the next year. Usually though it has a much longer incubation period.