chicken pox....after vaccinnated

[RCT]

ok, ds just undressed in front of me....and he has some small spots on his body...looked it up in a child health book...Chicken poxs? no fever...complained of a headache last night....he was vaccinnated when he was little.....there have been some cases at his school.....oh man....


it looks small and not too awful...I never had them...have a high immunity....should I be concerned about my BIL we are supposed to spend the weekend with them....ARGH....

[angie r]

Kids get chicken pox all the time even after being immunized. Thankfully it is usually a minor case. They can also get shingles after being immunized for pox. Has your brother in law and family had them?? If they have I'd say you are ok.

[RCT]

thanks Angie....I am leaning toward them being hives....wish I could find a photo on the web of Chicken pox......its so frustrating not knowing...LOL...yes my SIL/BIL both had them as children....so....well see....thanks again..

[Diane]

Try going here... they have a picture of a chicken pox. Be patient though, it took a while to come up. You can view it in large, medieum or huge... You might want to press (huge) so you can see it better. Hope it helps... :)

http://ladybug.xs4all.nl/photos/view.pl/0101/010125

[Linda/NE]

My dd had the chicken pox after being vaccinated too. She didn't have as many as the other kids, but they still looked like chicken pox.

You've probably already figured it out by now, but do they look like blisters or just red spots? If they don't look like blisters I'd guess it's hives or a rash of some sort.

Good luck in finding out what it is.

[RCT]

it was Chicken Pox....we had a total of 25....blistered and scaped quickly....he doesn't have a fever and no new outbreaks since friday....Dr. said he could go back to school on Monday...but we are keeping him home one more day....he seems to need a little more pampering...LOL...felt for him...hope dd doesn't catch it...or me.....yikes....although I was tested when I was prego....never had them...Have good antibites though....

thanks for the information ladies....:D :)

[Lynda/WA]

I'm one of those unusual people that has had chicken pox twice. First time was very mild in Kindergarten. My parents didn't even recognize it but I was at the doctors for something else and he told them. Second time was as a Freshman in HS. My brother and sister both got them and I seem to have gotten a double dose. So bad they even went down my thought. Really, really painfull! I guess it was the same thing as getting a vaccine. A very mild exposure that isn't always enough to prevent the first time around.

Most adults that haven't actually had chicken pox have already aquired enough immunity by the time they are adults. I think I read that 75% of adults that haven't had chicken pox symptoms have aquired immunity. The people you need to avoid are those with lowered immune systems and certain diseases. Like someone in cemo. Or an asmatic. I was pregnant when a coworkers kids got them. The OB doc told me that as long as I didn't catch them there was no problem. And I think they were only concerned about my having open scabs at delivery time not during the first trimester like with measels. Since I had them twice already that wasn't a problem!

Hope your DS is feeling all better!