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Original poster

to ask at what age your child had Chicken Pox?

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goldilocksandmylittlebear · 14/12/2008 22:15

So that I can decide when to give my DS the vaccine, choice of at the same time as MMR or over 4 weeks afterwards.

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mistlethrushinapeartree · 14/12/2008 22:36

3 months... we'd had a coffee morning with a 2.5yo who subsequently came out in spots - I didn't find this out until after I got back from a week away with ds who, eventually, got a verdict of chicken pox about 4 days after the 1st spot appeared as ds was exclusively bf....

becklespeckle · 14/12/2008 22:37

DS1 was 6.5, DS2 was 4 and DD just had it at 10 months.

DS1 had it by far the worst (caught from DS2 though, I believe it is common to get it worse when caught from a sibling due to high exposure)

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goldilocksandmylittlebear · 14/12/2008 22:37

Comeovenner I'm very surprised, the younger you have it the less boosters I sure thats what the packaging said. Before ??years its just 1 shot, after that 2 shots.

I would get your DD vaccinated again.

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sunnygirl1412 · 14/12/2008 22:42

Ours had it one after the other. First ds1, who was nearly 4, then ds2 who was nearly 2, then finally ds3, who was newborn - and who lay there covered in spots, with a look on his face that said, 'why the heck did I bother coming out of the womb for this??

Incidentally, we also managed to give it to the female half of the lovely couple who looked after ds1 and ds2 whilst I was in labour - now there's gratitude for you.

littleducks · 14/12/2008 22:44

dd had it three weeeks ago 2.7
ds had it last week, 8 mths

there is alot of it around atm, loads of people in rl and lots of threads on here so not just my area

PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen · 14/12/2008 22:45

ds1 was 4, ds2 was 3 and poor little ds3 was 10 weeks old- all in one sitting, obv

Gorionine · 14/12/2008 22:51

DD1 was 4yrs old
DS2 was 2yrs old
DS3 and DD4 have not had it yet they are 4 and 2 yrs old

I did not know you could get a vaccine for chicken pox.

PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen · 14/12/2008 22:55

oh goldi look for jimjams; she knows loads re the MmR

thisisyesterday · 14/12/2008 22:59

goldi has had a thread on the vaccine already. jimjams was there lol

SnowMuchToBits · 14/12/2008 23:02

Ds was about 13 months

debzmb62 · 14/12/2008 23:03

i,m with gorionine thought i was going mad
i have never heard of a vaccine for chicken pox !!i,ve had 5 children ages 27/ 26/16 / 8 and 3 years all have had chicken pox
all my kids had it around the ages of like 2-5 years i alway thought it was better to have it younger and i think you can only have it once anyway then you become ammune !
if you get it when your older shingles it can make you really poorly i know that

MilaMae · 14/12/2008 23:06

twins were very nearly 4 dd 21/2

kathryn77 · 14/12/2008 23:13

My DS has it now and is 2 1/4.

Have a breastfed 16 week old - hoping he does not get it. Dr said may be protected from my milk. Am hoping . Any experience of breastfed babies avoiding it??

christywhisty · 14/12/2008 23:14

Debz you can only have shingles if you had chickenpox.The virus lies dormant then comes out in times of stress or if your run down.

If a child has chickenpox in their first year they are more likely to have shingles as a child.
DD had chickenpox at 15 months and I am sure she had a very mild dose of shingles when she was 6 or 7.

colander · 14/12/2008 23:18

Kathryn77 - sorry but my breastfed DD2 caught it from DD1 at 16 weeks. DD1 was 3 yo. DD2 wasn't too poorly though, and she was all wrapped up in a babygro so couldn't scratch. She only has a couple of scars. She caught it exactly 2 weeks after DD1. That was a month from hell

debzmb62 · 14/12/2008 23:20

kathryn 4 of mine were bf but all had it

kathryn77 · 14/12/2008 23:22

So, when is DS2 contagious from assuming he will get it.

DS1 had first spot last sat, so assuming 2 weeks later, will get it next sat.. but are they not contagious before ?

DS2 so grizzly tonight and DS1 ill a week before spots too... not feeling optiisitc..

lou33 · 14/12/2008 23:25

the youngest one of mine was when they had it was 10 weeks old

debzmb62 · 14/12/2008 23:34

just google this from nhs website
The chickenpox vaccine is now licensed in the UK but it is not part of routine childhood vaccinations.

The vaccine against the varicella virus (which causes chickenpox) is not currently recommended for standard use in children.

In most cases it is a mild illness and around 89% of adults in the UK will develop immunity to the illness.

If the chickenpox vaccine were to be added to the list of childhood vaccinations, it is feared that there would be a greater number of cases of shingles in adults, until the vaccination was given to the entire population. This is because adults who have had chickenpox as a child are less likely to have shingles in later life if they have been exposed occasionally to the chickenpox virus (for example by their children). This is because the exposure acts as a booster vaccine.

ps kathryn
hopefully your baby won,t get it as they normaly have a natural ammunatie to it for 6 months also bf does normally help mine did,nt get it until after i stopped bf so you might be ok anyway its not dangerous once the spot are out they are normally poorly a few weeks before also its better to get them when they a young althought its not nice they have to be a bit poorly before btw

debzmb62 · 14/12/2008 23:39

ps also i expect if a bf baby did get it it would be mild hopefully !

toomanyprojects · 14/12/2008 23:50

DD1 was 2.5yrs and was covered head to toe. DS1 (then 10 weeks) came down two weeks later but had it very mildly - just a few in his scalp. He was b/f and the doctor said he probably won't be immune in the future as his body wouldn't make antibodies due to b/feeding. He is now 6yrs but has never had it again. DD2 is 20 months and hasn't had it, feel like I may be tempting fate here..

nooka · 15/12/2008 00:01

The US has been vaccinating against chickenpox for a long time, so presumably the amount of infection in the community is much reduced. That's very interesting about the relationship with shingles, although I'm not totally sure it makes sense, as surely if everyone is vaccinated there would be no reexposure from chicken pox, and therefore cases of shingles would in fact be higher?

nooka · 15/12/2008 00:03

Oh, and my two had it when ds was either 3 or 4, and dd was either 2 or 3 (there is 16 mths between them, ds had it on his birthday, and dd caught it two weeks later. She did have it worse, thinking of the sibling exposure theory).

Linnet · 15/12/2008 00:08

dd1 was 3 years 10 months when she got it and dd2 was 4 years 6 months. Both came through it very well, oh and nephew had it at the same time as dd2 and he's just turned 3 they are in the same nursery class and it was doing the rounds, nice to know that it's out of the way now.

S1ur · 15/12/2008 00:12

about 2.5 and 6m. roughly

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