chicken pox query

NicM123 | 21:32 Sun 11th Mar 2012 | Body & Soul

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My little boy has just got chicken pox. I am due to due some voluntary work with cancer patients tomorrow. I've already had chicken pox myself, but was wondering whether I would be putting the patients at any kind of risk?

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welshlibranr

doubt it NicM, you should now be immune, but have heard that you can pass on the virus as shingles in adults, and shingles are very painful for the elderly, so maybe get it checked out!.......

WyeDyed

I'm not a doctor.
I seem to remember that, with chicken pox, by the time the spots appear and start to scab over they are no longer contagious (although they have been for the previous 10 days)

Best check with an expert though.

sherrardk

Could you ring the place where you are due to volunteer in the morning and check with them? My friend's son had leukaemia and they had to take all sorts of precautions. Better safe than sorry.

DaisyNonna

Either it is a fallacy that you can only have chicken pox once or my daughter has had the misfortune to have had three doctors, two of whom were rubbish at diagnosis. Diagnosed with chicken pox three times. As a child as a teenager and a week after giving birth to her second child. Yes, whole family (including baby) caught it that time.
Please check with whoever is organising this.

Greedyfly

both my sister and I have had Chicken Pox 3 times also

NicM123

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Thanks fore your answers. I've got a nurse from the centre ringing me first thing. I just wasn't sure if I still could carry the virus even though I've had it?

Smowball

My son has definitely had chichenpox twice. once not too bad, the second time was horrendous!

Sqad

Your son could transmit the chicken pox virus to you but as you have had chicken pox you are extremely unlikely to get the disease.
You could transmit your son's virus by contact or by sneezing to the cancer patients who may well be at increased risk depending upon their type of cancer and treatment.

I would think that although transmission is unlikely, you should not attend tomorrow.

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