Chickenpox, how long until sibling gets it?

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I've noticed some spots on 6yo this morning, pretty sure it's chickenpox as it's been going round her class so no surprise she's got it. In the MN collective experience, how long do you think it will take for her brother to get it?
Thanks

14 days

My twins had chickenpox 12 days apart! One had obviously been cuddling someone at nursery who the other hadn’t.
About two weeks seemed to be the average.
Hope your dd is ok x

It has a long incubation period. DC2 didn’t get it until 2 weeks after DC1.

It's usually about 14 days but I believe it can be between 7 - 21 days. Chicken Pox has a long incubation period.

It was two weeks to the day of seeing DC1’s first pox to DC2’s first one appearing.

It depends if both of them were exposed at the same initially or if yours have infected each other.

In our case I thought we were nearly home and dry, 12 days. DS1 was 3 and DS2 was 4 months.

Think we were just over the 2 weeks. Long enough to think he had escaped it.

2 weeks to the day between DS1 and DS2.

Not sure if it's always the way but DS2 was much harder hit. Hears that it's because the subsequent ones have been exposed for longer.

Think it was about 15 days between dd and ds. Incubation period can be up to 21 days though

You can get the vaccine for your second child in the next couple of days and it may prevent them from contracting it or more likely make it less severe for them.

It went cousin, then DD1 a week later, then DD2 a week after that for us. (They had been on holiday together, sharing a room, niece came down with it on the last day).

Thanks all. I think dd has caught it from school as a few in her class have been off with it recently. So, though I can't be sure, I would guess that they haven't been exposed to it at the same time and dd will pass it to her brother.

It's half term for us next week so it's good that dd probably won't have to miss any school (though we will have to cancel lots of lovely plans that they were really looking forward to ) but I was hoping DS would catch it sooner and not have to miss much school. Never mind, at least there will hopefully be a break in between.

2 weeks to the day for us between ds2's first spot and ds1's.

Ds2 was pretty much just going back to school as ds1 came out of it - we had a full month where either DH or I had to be off work and home, it was horrendous. Isolation and staying at home is normal to everyone now but a few years ago when WFH wasn't an option it was a right pain.

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You can get the vaccine for your second child in the next couple of days and it may prevent them from contracting it or more likely make it less severe for them.

Ah I will look into that, thank you. DS generally tends to suffer with viruses much worse than DD, what is a sniffle for her has him bedbound for 3 days. So if I can do something avoid him getting it badly then that will be helpful.

DS1 got it at two, then one week old DS2 came out in a few spots several days later, even though I was bf. Now 16 and never had it again.

About two weeks as others are saying. And in our case the second child was really badly hit, I felt so awful for him (we thought he had already had it - not so, clearly).

Exactly 20 days for spots to appear after exposure but she'd been grumpy, sleepy and off her food for a few days beforehand so we knew it was coming.

Hello. My son got chickenpox and came down with it on the 27th September. It’s been 2 weeks today that he started showing symptoms of it. However my daughter who’s a year younger still hasn’t come down with it. We have Devon on the 1st November. Any advice on if and when she will catch it? A lot of people are saying 2 weeks or 21 days, if she hadn’t caught it by next Saturday (which is 21 full days after first child) would I assume she hadn’t caught it? Feel abit worried about us going away but surly she would come down with it by now or more then likely in the next week?