to ask at what age your child had Chicken Pox?

[goldilocksandmylittlebear]

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.

DS1 was 2.5yo, ds2 was 11m they had it at the same time.

My dcs both recently got it . Ds 2 caught it from Dd 5.

Relatively mild attacks. I have been hoping that they would catch chicken pox for ages as I wanted them to get it out of the way in early childhood. Their cast iron immune systems were not making it easy. I think dd was one of the last in her Reception year group to fall. She is a veteran of numerous chicken pox outbreaks at nursery and school but previously managed to escape unscathed.

DS2 had a mild dose at 16 weeks old, though Im not convinced it was but that what doc said. He then got it again a lot worse at 4 and ds1 got it a couple of weeks later at age 5, felt very sorry for him as he had only just come out of hospital with pnuemonia

ds1 was almost 4, ds2 19 months.

dd was 3.5, it was the third time she'd been exposed to it via nursery before she finally got it. ds caught it from dd, he was 7 weeks old. both had it pretty bad, ds was covered in pox.

My three all got it together - dd started it, she was 3, and then ds1 (5.5) and ds2 (10months) got it as well. Ds1 had been exposed to it so many times at day nursery and school, and never got it and then when he did it was quite mild, so he clearly had some natural immunity, but ds2 was a sight - utterly covered like a plague victim. Still, apart from the initial temperature, he was not really bothered by them, dd similarly scratched v little, although she does have a couple of scars left over.

DD1 was 2years 10 months, DD2 caught it from her and was 5 weeks old.

DD2 was 10 months (last one at nursery to succumb).

The others all had it over Xmas 1998. DS2 got it from school, aged 11, and passed it to DD1 (14), DS1 (13) and DS3 (9).

We spent the afternoon of Xmas Day at A&E as DS2 had spots inside his eye, and the early evening of Xmas Eve queueing at the emergency pharmacy with every other parent of a sick child. Daft thing is we are in Kent and there was a simultaneous outbreak in Bath.

That said I wouldn't give the jab at the same time as MMR. `The doc told me to make sure there was a gap of at least 6 weeks between DD2 having CP and having the MMR jab.

My dd has not had it yet she is 18 weeks but i have had it twice, once at 15yrs and once at 18/19 yrs - never had it as a child.

DS-About 10 months
DD-6 months

DS1 24 months and DS2 2 months. DS2 has subsequently had shingles too.

Thanks fokes, interesting stuff! It has helped me decide to get it done this week, ie 4 weeks before MMR. Ta very much!........bet he catches it tomorrow now!
Did read somewhere its more common March to May??

dd not yet and shes 9.

9 is quite a bit older isn't it. Would you get the vaccine if she hadn't got it by age 10?

One at 3y 9m and the other at 11 weeks.

DS was just over 3.

DD (caught it from DS) was 5 coming up to 6.

It was such a mild illness in both of them (ie. they both felt less ill and suffered for fewer days than with other normal childhood viruses) that I would not have bothered to have them vaccinated, had I known how manageable the illness was, iyswim?

sorry eekarendeer, do you mean you DID get them vaccinated?

DD at 2yrs, and DS at only 7 weeks. (at same time) Poor DS was so poorly, and had it much worse than DD, even though bf. He still has really bad scarring.

Lots of research states it should be combined with the MMR. Poor DS Theyearofthecat, that's horrible.

4.5 years & 8 months (which became infected and got VERY nasty)

Was your 8month old infected by your 4.5year old Milliways?

Yes, sorry she was 5, had just started school. He had eczema and the rash just got into the eczema and he ended up so that you couldn't put you finger tip ANYwhere on his body & not hit spots - which were all horrible. Even down his throat.

They gave him valium base medicine to knock him out as you couldn't cuddle him - he screamed.

Goldilocks: no, they weren't vaccinated. I don't think the vaccine was available to them (they are nearly 8, and 5).

If they were babies now I wouldn't have them vaccinated against chicken pox because, in our experience, the illness was very mild.

They have both had MMR and the other normal vaccines, though, but that is because I understood the illnesses we were vaccinating against to be far more unpleasant/dangerous than chicken pox.

Hth.

I don't think its unreasonable to ask when other people children had chicken pox. My son was two years and nine months. My son had a really nasty time and ended up with steriod cream to help with the rash.

I am not sure how its going to help you know when my son had chicken pox. I am thinking of getting bumpa vacinated.