House of Pox!

blondy wrote: kellie wrote: Generally shingles occurs in people (altready infected with the varicella zoster virus - aka CP/shingles virus) that have weakened immune systems. Exposure to more CP might boost your immune response slightly, but I don't know if it would prevent a shingles outbreak/recurrence? Sometimes the VZV vaccine can be given post-CP exposure to lessen the severity of the disease. Here is a link about that.

I had heard from a few sources that exposure to cp may help to prevent shingles in later life
Quote from this page link
"Shingles is caused by reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus, which is thought to occur when specific cell mediated immunity declines. The lifetime risk of shingles is 10%–30% and increases with age, affecting up to half of people who live to 85 years. We know that exposure to chickenpox can significantly prevent or delay shingles (by exogenous boosting of immunity).6 Increased annual chickenpox rates in children under 5 are associated with reduced shingles in the 15–44 age group. Having a child in the household reduced the risk of shingles for about 20 years, the more contact with children the better, and general practitioners and paediatricians have a statistically significant lowering of risk,7 possibly because of their contact with sick children (teachers did not have a significantly reduced rate).8,9"

Really interesting to hear about that research. Thanks for the link Kellie And it will be interesting too to see whether the incidence of shingles does increase - I guess the US and Aussie will show us, as they both have more or less compulsory vaccination including the CP vaccine.

Thaks for all the info ladies.

Star you have to pay here. It's about $90 and you need to let them know ahead of time as some clinics don't keep it on hand due to the short shelf life.

Oh poor Gabriel Has he managed to avoid the temps?
Still as you say, at least it's going to be all over soon. Would be worse if you had to wait for Eden to catch it from Gabriel and it was drawn out even longer.

Jackson has had a low grade temp for a few days now. Nothing thats worrying us at this stage and its not been over 37.5 degrees. Should we just keep monitoring it and giving paracetamol or see the Dr? He is generally ok aside from normal pox grumpiness.