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The dreaded POX

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Dottyditdot · 13/11/2024 20:17

I had my newest dd on the 5th November so she is currently 8 days old. Yesterday evening my eldest daughter came up in a rash that upon a doctors visit today they said it looks more like a viral rash from her cold/flu but that they couldn’t rule out chicken pox. My daughter has never had CP before she was a lockdown toddler so no nursery or preschool no contact out of the house and then by the time she’d started school all her peers had caught and got over it, ironically she is booked in for the chicken pox jab on 27th November because I’ve been worrying about her getting older and never having had it (we also have an almost 3 year old dd too whom if she catches it I’m not so worried it’s a good age to have it and recover BUT she’s very touchy with the baby) so now I’m spiralling in worry that if it is chicken pox my newborn is obviously very at risk :/ she is ebf and I’ve had chicken pox so I’m hoping she’s got some kind of immunity but any advice or just words of calming level headed advice to soothe my panic would be greatly appreciated.

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Stirrednshaken · 13/11/2024 21:43

She will have some immunity (probably the best of her childhood!) at this point from your colostrum. I'd get both kids vaccinated asap (although it's a live vaccine so there's a small risk they could pass it to your baby that way). A viral rash looks pretty different from chicken pox blisters so you'll know in a few hours which way it's going. Best of luck!

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