Shingles Support Group
Herpes zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is the reactivation of varicella zoster virus, leading to a crop of painful blisters over the area of a dermatome. It occurs very rarely in children and adults, but its incidence is high in the elderly (over 60), as well as in any age group of immunocompromised patients.
No one has been on here posting in a while. So I how someone logs on soon! I am 23 years old. My sister is 22 and her daughter is only 6 months old.
I have singles. I'm on day five with only day one of anti viral. My sister has chicken pox. My biggest concern is of course the baby. Some one please tell me that staying very clean. Washing our hands frequently, not scratching, constant user if hand sanitizer, and keeping infected areas covered at all times is enough to keep me niece from catching chicken pox. She can not get vaccinated til she is 1 year old!
I have singles. I'm on day five with only day one of anti viral. My sister has chicken pox. My biggest concern is of course the baby. Some one please tell me that staying very clean. Washing our hands frequently, not scratching, constant user if hand sanitizer, and keeping infected areas covered at all times is enough to keep me niece from catching chicken pox. She can not get vaccinated til she is 1 year old!
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
My own opinion is that your sister, because she has chicken pox, could very possibly give it to her baby. You, on the other hand, with shingles, will not give it to the baby, because it is so much harder for you to transfer the virus.