Chickenpox?

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DS1 has some spots on him and some have blisters on them. Just a few on his face and the blister ones are on this ear.

Chickenpox is going around right now - we are in the UK and they don't vaxx for it - but DS1 had the vaxx for it.

Google tells me it's possible for him to get it and it usually presents as a very mild case. I haven't bothered taking him in to the doctor because if it is chickenpox they prefer you stay at home. Plus no fever and eating well so decided to just keep him home from school.

Has anyone had a vaccinated child get chickenpox?

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thanks swizz and h. almost ed time here so i survived the day with three kids at home!

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@bandwife Here's a pic of dd1 when she had cp last summer. Now, she wasn't vaxed (not normally done here either, though we paid for dd2 to get the vaccine since then). Do any of his spots look like the ones at the top of her left shoulder? They were the latest spots in the photo, which developed into the redder ones.

She wasn't very "sick" with it. No real fever or bad form. Just had to keep her home for a week.

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irish yes, that's what they look like. he is in fine form today and the spots are less noticeable and the blisters have gone. i guess wait is on to see if the other two get it!

[irish]

You never know - you could get lucky with the other two.

When dd1 got it dd2 was around 8/9mths old and it was going round the crèche. Dd2 never got it. But another little girl who was 8mths too got it from her older brother, who was in dd1's class. Other friends their eldest got it and 2mth old didn't. So you never know...

If the others get it, it will be almost exactly 14 days between the first spots on the first to the first spots in the second one. That's what all my friends say who have been there.

Hope the confinement isn't too stressful!