Chicken Pox

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DS played with his friend 2 days ago came into some close contact briefly. Friend now has Chicken Pox spots. How likely is he to get it? He was due to be vaccinated this week, on thursday!

Fairly likely - hard to say - depends on the level of contact I suppose. If the childs spots hadn't yet appeared then he will have been contagious - you will need to tell the person doing the vaccination as it is unlikely they will do it - I am pretty sure you can't vaccinate if they are incubating the illness - look on the bright side - either way he will be immune afterwards !

I read somewhere that vaccinating soon after exposure lessened the spots etc???

Not sure - my two weren't vaccinated against CP - but both have had it now anyway. Give NHS direct a call and ask - or you can probably google it to find out if no-one on here knows - bump

Our twins were due to be vaccinated on thursday past but dt2 came out in chicken pox 3 days beforehand,hv said it was ok to go ahead and vaccionate dt1 as she didnt yet have any spots!!! We decided against it as she is almost defo going to come down with it considering they share EVERYTHING including dummies nad juice cups,spoons etc !!

Thanks miniandme so I guess the answer is yes I can vaccinate. How have your DT been?

Personally I would leave it and see if your DS gets chicken pox, first it could save you loads of money and secondly having chicken pox give you permanant immunity.

Also the chicken pox vaccine has a high failure rate.

I have done lots of reasearch and spoken to various peds, HV etc and am happy to favour vaccinating over the real thing - thanks though believer07 - I may well be too late anyway!

Miniandme - just saw your other post about the medised so I guess you have all been suffering - poor you.

Have just been to docs with my 2 yr old and think she may have chicken pox.She has loads on her hands,a few on her legs,arms and face and loads on her bum(looks like nappy rash but shes toilet trained!)and also a rash all on her body.The doc said he cant confirm it is them until after a few days as they haven't blistered so it could just be a mild form he thinks!Any one heard of this before my 2 others had them 9 years ago and i cant remember what they looked like!!