@*@*@ Immunity to chicken pox? @*@*@

[camillathechicken]

DD has been exposed to chicken pox a number of times that I know of. and probably others i don;t. as yet ,she has not had it. Last week ,3 friends who she plays with regularly came out with the chicken pox. she has not got it.

is it possible she is immune?

i bet she gets it now

Dd avoided it, despite close contact at least ten times, until she was 6. I was starting to think she was immune too ...

aaaaaah. i didn;t have it until i was 9 and it was grim. i was really hoping she would get it over and done with.

I know what you mean. We kept waiting and waiting to get it over with, and despite it sweeping through her class several times, it always missed her. Like you say, it was pretty grim, but I think it can be that way whenever they get it.

true, will wait and see then. just amazed she has not got it. especially as she was laid low with tonsilitis so her immune system was compromised anyway.

I don't know about chickenpox, but I have never had German measles, despite my 3 siblings and 91 out of the 92 children in my primary school going down with it.
When I started trying to concieve, the doctor told me I wasn't immune & I had the jab, but I still wasn't immune when I fell pregnant with DS. I had the jab again after DS was born, but again the test when I was expectin DD was still negative.
The doctor said I probably had a natural immunity that didn't show up on the test - I've still never had it.

My mum's never had it - saw me and my brother through it without catching it, and had DD for a day when she was infectious with it (which was a huge worry with the 'worse when you're older' thing as she was 60, but she wanted to have her) and nothing. My brother and I had it separately, ie one didn't catch it off the other despite being of an age where we were sharing baths, and DD took a fair bit of exposure before she caught it, so I have a theory that mum is naturally immune and the immunity is getting passed down the generations in ever weakening form.

it's possible. my dad's blood was studied after he seemed apparently immune to strains of flu which originated as avian.

he was.

no explanation other than that perhaps his mother's surviving Spanish Flu, which originated as an avian strain, had altered her makeup and she passed on the immunity.

there have also been cases of people exposed over and over again to HIV who have not contracted the virus.

thanks everyone very interesting

i bet you she wakes up covered with it now !!