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Is DS2 about to come down with chickenpox?

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NotQuiteCockney · 25/04/2007 12:26

He's almost certainly been exposed (most of all on Thursday evening). He has been grumbly and a bit warm since Monday. Today he is home, warm, whingy, and just not right.

Is he about to come out in spots? When? The waiting is killing me.

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NotQuiteCockney · 25/04/2007 22:00

People are bringing random food (salady bits, a curry, dunno), and we will all eat together.

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bundle · 25/04/2007 22:02

nqc, what's the timings on saturday? girls have hectic schedule and trying to fit everything in...

pooka · 25/04/2007 22:03

One thing I found with my two was that they both had coughs for about a day a few days before the spots appeared.

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NotQuiteCockney · 25/04/2007 22:03

I think people can come from 10am. Staying until?? 4? 5? Eating potluck lunch together.

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bundle · 25/04/2007 22:07

we may only be able to come just after lunch but happy to take stuff away with me to finish off if necessary. dh away and weekend turning into bit of mad scramble

Swizzler · 25/04/2007 22:17

Will prob be able to come after lunch - DS needs his morning nap and he only sleeps when being walked in the pushchair!

Erm, would you mind telling me if your DS does have chickenpox before then? DS is ony 6 months

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NotQuiteCockney · 25/04/2007 22:21

I will announce, on here, the progress of the spots or lack there of.

I think if he's not got spots by Friday, then he's not about to get them - he's had no more contact with the possibly-pox-ridden friend since Monday, anyway.

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bundle · 26/04/2007 00:11

mine have both had them, so no bother at all

imaginaryfriend · 26/04/2007 08:50

NQC I don't have your email address. We've got swimming class in the morning so could probably come in early - mid-afternoon, is that ok?

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NotQuiteCockney · 26/04/2007 08:57

Any more pairs of hands, whenever, are welcome. (Well, ok, before 10am is no use, because Marina won't yet be here with the squares.)

Anyway, you can email me on @hotmail.co.uk. I don't check that address often, but will check it today and send you an email from my actual email address. (I think catting also works, but is slower.)

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NotQuiteCockney · 26/04/2007 08:58

Oh, and DS2 seems to have perked up quite a bit today. He woke repeatedly in the night (11:30, I gave calpol. Midnight, gave up and sobbed ), but is perky and full of energy, and not at all spotty.

So he's off to the co-op today I think.

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Swizzler · 26/04/2007 10:11

Sorry to hear about your bad night . DS woke at 10 and 10:30 but then got some Medised down him and he slept for a few hours...

Will check Spot Progress here but looks liek you might have escaped . Then again, I had chickenpox at 17 and DS is bf, so does that mean he's have immunity?

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NotQuiteCockney · 26/04/2007 10:57

I don't think they get total protection from BF, after a certain age? Dunno.

I had chicken pox at 7 or 8, DS2 is still bf, but I assumed he'd still be able to get it?

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Swizzler · 26/04/2007 12:14

Found this on Kellymom:

As an example, what protection does baby get from the chicken pox (varicella) virus if mom had chicken pox as a child?

First off, baby would not be expected to be immune to chicken pox, particularly after 6-8 months when placental immunity has faded away. However, other immune factors in breastmilk will give baby some protection from chicken pox. Per Dr. Jack Newman (in How Breast Milk Protects Newborns), "Free fatty acids present in milk can damage the membranes of enveloped viruses, such as the chicken pox virus, which are packets of genetic material encased in protein shells." The secretory IgA in breastmilk has also been shown to be active against the chicken pox virus in vitro. Case reports suggest thatas with other viral infectionsbreastfed babies who get chicken pox will often (but not always) get milder cases.

So the answer is ... maybe

bundle · 26/04/2007 12:31

dd2 was exposed at least 4 times at nursery and didn't get them till last November, when she was 3 and I'd finished bf (once a day say) only a few months earlier. i'd had v severe chickenpox at 20 and I really think I'd passed on immunity to her for that length of time.

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NotQuiteCockney · 26/04/2007 16:13

I had it before I was 10. It was pretty severe, but that was a long time ago.

Thing is, I know he was very exposed to a not-well child, but I do not know if that not-well child was incubating chicken pox, or just a weird fevery thing. He keeps switching between fever and normal, he's never alarmingly hot. He's never floppy. He has no rash. He has a (clear) runny nose.

So maybe he's about to get chicken pox, or maybe he just has a bug.

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mankyscotslass · 26/04/2007 16:22

DS has been exposed all day every day for nearly 3 months to children in his reception class who have had the chicken pox. he has worked / played really closely with them and shown no signs yet. the most recent case was confirmed 2 1/2 weeks ago, and the outbreak is tailing off. still got time for him to catch it, but he managed to avoid it in nursery too. A friend was still BF her dd when her eldest came down with cp, the daughter did get it but not so badly...at that point she was feeding about 8 times a day.

imaginaryfriend · 26/04/2007 20:41

NQC, I'll email you.

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/04/2007 17:06

Latest opinion: I think DS2 does not have chicken pox. The fever etc is reduced, it's obviously a bug going around the co-op (someone else was sent home with it today), but he's mostly better.

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imaginaryfriend · 27/04/2007 21:45

Ooh, glad I caught you NQC, was just about to reply to your email.

First off: I'm glad DS is ok, there seems to have been a kind of fluey bug going round dd's school which is just as you describe, a few days fever and nothing else much to show.

And as an aside: I don't think we're going to come tomorrow, I'd have loved to and to have met the other people you mentioned that are coming. But dd's too sicky, I'd hate hate hate to pass it on it's a really nasty old bug this one. Maybe another time? We don't live far from you really.

imaginaryfriend · 27/04/2007 21:45

p.s. do you head down to the Museum of Childhood much?

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/04/2007 21:46

We don't go that often, since it reopened. They took away the sandpit . We really liked the sandpit.

But come out to visit sometime (you're up in Hackney? Is it?). Victoria Park is lovely in good weather, and we are there all the time.

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imaginaryfriend · 27/04/2007 21:51

Oh yes, I used to visit Victoria Park a lot. I used to live in Hackney, I'm now right by Tower Bridge but mooch up to the East quite a lot.

Yes, the sandpit is much missed. It's not as nice somehow now there is it? But back when dd was between 2 and 3 (before refurbishment) we went there such a lot.

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NotQuiteCockney · 28/04/2007 07:03

We used to go a fair bit, but the sandpit was really the draw. Without that, there's nowhere near as much for kids to do there.

(Back home, most tiny neighbourhood parks have sandpits. And often a wading pool, too, which is supervised and everything ...)

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