This weekend a neighbor held baby, today she found out she has shingles and has a small shingle on her wrist so baby may have been exposed. LO has a cold now too so her immune system probably is not 100%.
Boooo.......The only good thing is she has her 9 month check up scheduled in 2 weeks so she should be showing symptoms by then if she did get it. Hopefully she doesn't get it though.
Anyone dealt with chicken pox in an infant?
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
OMG! Poor thing! Hopefully she didn't catch it. I don't know anyone who had chicken pox as an infant - I can imagine how stressful it could be for the parents!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Boo indeed. I will have my fingers crossed for your LO. That would not be fun. Has she had the vaccine? I can't remember at what age they get that ...
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
This is why I never hold babies!! That, and a fear of dropping them.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Hope your LO is ok and doesn't catch it... and gets rid of her cold!
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
I had shingles when RJ was about 6 months old. SO incredibly painful. The craziest thing is that the pain was under my arm so I thought it was a clogged duct so I didn't get diagnosed until several days in (I'd never had shingles before... never knew if you've had chicken pox, it can appear at any time!) and I had to go on some crazy anti-virals to get rid of it. The nerve pain continued for a while as well. Valtrex, fyi...
RJ had the chicken pox vaccine by then and he was also nursing... he didn't catch anything from me. I was careful to keep my rash away from him (I'd cover it with a huge bandage while I was nursing) but none of my sores were open anyway.
Scary stuff!!!
persimmon / 1465 posts
Apparently I had the Chicken Pox as a baby. I had about 3 spots on my head and that was it. Fingers crossed for you!
grapefruit / 4800 posts
She hasn't gotten an immunization for it yet. Our pediatrician follows the CDC schedule, so that's for a year old I think. My youngest sister had it when she was an infant and so my mom just kinda said 'oh well' when I said baby might get it and didn't think it was a big deal.
Our neighbor was really nice to come over and tell us though. At least if baby does show any symptoms we'll know what it might be instead of being surprised.
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