My DS has a play date with a child who got the mmr and chicken pox "last month" is there anyway that my child could catch anything from this child from the shots he received? My child is not yet vaccinated for mmr or chicken pox yet, and I've heard children could be contagious after receiving them.
Wwyd? Cancel?
I wonder how many kids you run across while out and about that just received the shot and you didn't know about it. If the children were as contagious as you are trying to make it out, I would think they'd have to be on quarantine after they receive them. They're not, they are free to go about their lives.
The shopping cart at Walmart has flu germs on it, the doorknob at the docs office has strep on it or some other germ, there are germs and illnesses everywhere.
If the child she is going to play with has a fever or diarrhea then stay home, otherwise go play, just don't kiss or share slobber from the toys.
i'm just flummoxed.
i can't imagine sheltering my kids to this degree.
do you limit his contact with everyone in the world? the mailman? the grocery store cashier? the playground?
if you had a playdate with a SICK child i could see canceling it.
i don't think i'd survive being a young mother today. i'm simply not paranoid enough.
khairete
S.
No, I would not cancel. The other mother would have told you if her child is ill. You are going to drive yourself crazy trying to protect your child from stuff like this. Hopefully you can train yourself to relax a bit before your child enters that petri dish called school.
You had me kind of scared, actually. I thought the child had gotten chickenpox and measles and mumps last month. Whew!
I gotta ask, are you going to sequester your DS for over a month after he gets his shots? What would be the difference between your child being contagious and this kid?
Please don't worry about this. Children get their vaccines every day and don't get other kids sick. The point of the vaccines is that the vast majority of people don't get these diseases!
Dawn
I would keep the play date. I think your child's chances of getting chicken pox would be greater going to the house of an UNVACCINATED child.
Get your shots, for the sake of everyone else!
I think it's fine. There are very rare cases of vaccinated children "shedding" the vaccine, but we're talking strike-of-lightining rare, and this would have to be immediately after the shot, not a month later.
Full disclosure: I do have some critiques about the current vaccine regime. I wish the shots could be spread out more and that they weren't only available in "cocktails" like the MMR and the DPT. But I also have a lot of respect for math and science. And statistically, population-wide, the kids who put other kids at risk are the ones who haven't been vaccinated. The numbers are really striking on this. So that's where I'm coming from.
This would only be a concern if your child was severely imuno-suppressed, and even then not much of a concern. Your child has a much greater risk contracting these diseases from a child who hasn't had the vaccine.
It's been a month so all the germs should be gone.
As a child I had chickenpox, my neighbors at different houses had mumps, measles and whopping cough. So for the month we were all sick. When we were well our parents threw us a party and we all attended. No one ever got any of the other diseases. Perhaps we were our own immunization against them.
Go and have a great day.
The other S.
Of course. Why would you cancel. The thought would have never crossed my mind. Kids get vaccinated and life goes on. Will you keep your child isolated after his MMR? I don't think so. Go and let him have fun.
Don't cancel. I understand caution, but that steps into the realm of craziness.
The person who can best answer this is your Dr.
Personally, I would still go to the playdate.
with a google search I found this....
With this in mind, realize then that it is extremely rare for someone who gets the vaccine virus to spread it to another individual who does not have any protection against chickenpox. In fact, there are only three documented cases of chickenpox out of more than 15 million doses of vaccine given to date that were transmitted to healthy people from recently vaccinated people. These three cases ended up being mild disease and there were no complications. More importantly, this type of spread has only been documented when the person receiving the vaccine develops a chickenpox-like rash right after their shot.
http://life.familyeducation.com/illness/disease-preventio...
What Mum4Ever said, unless there is a valid _medical_ reason why you haven't gotten your child vaccinated.
If your child can't be vaccinated for some medical reason, still no need to worry since the playdate kiddo was vaccinated last month.
I would go. Its been a month. The time frame for a reaction to the vaccine is 2 weeks.
My daughter got the chicken pox vacc at 12m,
My daughter got the mmr vacc at 15m,
She got what they think were measles and a high fever two weeks later
She got the chicken pox at 20m
My son got his chicken pox vacc at 12m and him and 10 kids in his daycare class (all with March/April birthdays), all got the chicken pox the week of his 5th birthday. We had to postpone his birthday party.
I would be more worried about taking my unvaccinated child being around the strangers in public, that are carrying diseases and illnesses you're not even slightly aware of.
Call your pediatrician. Since it's almost the end of the month, "last month" really means a month ago. I would expect possible contagion lasts a few days, not weeks. But I doubt anyone here can actually answer this accurately -- call the pediatrician.
why would you even consider it? is the playdate that important?
I wouldn't worry about it, it's been a month. Most shedding takes place within 21 days. It is so not worse to be around a kid who hasn't had these vaccinations, that's just silly. Kids with strong natural immune systems are not running around harboring contagious diseases!
