Help! On hols/breakthrough chicken pox/vaccine

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Please help. Any advice or knowledge hugely appreciated. I have googled with no luck.

We are on holiday in Spain. My daughter 21months has breakthrough chicken pox spots. They appeared Sunday morning (today is Tuesday) She had the first chicken pox/varicella vaccination 10 days ago.

So cross with myself, I thought the chances of getting pox after the vaccine were minuscule but turns out not.

We are going to call insurance company tomorrow but does anyone have any advice? for seeing drs about this in Spain? Or how long breakthrough spots lasted for your little ones?

Easyjet website says you have to wait 7 days after the last spot to fly 😢 would this be the case for breakthrough spots?

thank you so much for reading!

My sons break through spots were barely visible and were gone in 4 days (and he wasn’t ill at all)

I've tried googling and I'm still confused about what "breakthrough chicken pox" is vs standard chicken pox?

10 days after vaccination is exactly the right time for a reaction to develop which can include a few spots, especially on the torso. Are you sure it's not just that?

Both my DC had them post vaccination, but they never fully developed, nor scanned over. They just went away again.

Thank you both!
she has spots all over her torso, face and scalp. Around 7 have blistered. Is this normal?
breakthrough pox was just the phrase I read somewhere today, dunno if any different to normal. Less contagious?!

Ugh - don't know sorry.

But I know 10 days is def the window for post vaccine reaction, so perhaps look up the vaccine patient info leaflet?

you need to contact your travel insurance and see a dr.
airline might turn you away without a dr note.

Updating the thread because I hate it when people don’t!!
we saw an amazing English speaking dr here in Spain, cost €45, she got a second opinion too but they basically said that the spots would be healed by the date we fly (tomorrow) so wrote us a fit to fly letter. She also prescribed some antihistamine which cost €3 from the pharmacia!
When I posted the spots were multiplying by the hour but typically they calmed down the day we saw the dr, she was right in that the spots from the reaction were less bad than normal pox.
Dr also say she was far far far less contagious than normal pox so we still went out albeit carefully.
the spots have all scabbed over now so we’re good to fly tomorrow but I am glad we have the letter and have had the antihistamine to help lo sleep and stop itching.
moral of the story, don’t get a chicken pox vaccine before you go on holiday!