Hello on Tuesday the 17th I brought my daughter in for her shots one of them was her Varicella ~chicken pox~ shot the others were also her: Pnemococcal,Hepatitis A,dtap dta td dt,& her HIB shot. after she only had a fever for a couple of hours & slept it off......today 6 days later she woke up fine but around 1 pm this after noon I noticed she had slightly rised red bumps on her arm and a few on her back they seemed to be a bit itchy but not bad enough to bother her very much.... now this evening she has them every where! and a few of the bumps that were smaller this morning are now way bigger & still it's borthing her to much. i'm not sure if their chicken poxs are not? they dont seem to be because they dont have the clear liquid in them etc. & she's not been exposed to any kind of poison oak or anythig of that nature...but i've heard that sometimes after children recive their varicella vaccations later on they may get a mild case of chicken poxs. I'm a bit worried has anyone experinced this before? if you have could would you let me know? thank you to all of you!
~T.~
yes it is from the chicken pox vaccine. My daughter did the same thing and then 1 year later got them again. Both cases though were extremely mild and non complicated. So yes, the vaccine gave her chicken pox!
Get her back to the pediatrician. All 4 of my kids had the varicella booster vaccine last month - and my 16yo had the same problem - it was an adverse reaction to the vaccine - I had to get her on Benedryl - but since Benedryl is dangerous if it is chicken pox - you better have the doctor double check.
My son did the same thing after his chicken pox vaccine at 12 months. He was fine when I put him in his high chair for lunch and when I got him down 1/2 hour later, he was COVERED in little red dots. They never seemed to bother him at all (he never acted like they itched or anything) and they went away after about a week.
My daughter just got her first chicken pox shot on Thursday of last week so I'm holding my breath hoping she won't get them from the shot too.
My oldest son never had a reaction becasue he was older whn they started giving that shot to everyone.
Take her to the Doctors...that may also be an allergic reaction to one of the vaccines and it needs to be noted =)
the chicken pox vaccine is a live virus vaccine. and what that means is that anyone who gets the vaccine and the people who are around them are at risk for actually getting chicken pox. i'd definitely call the dr. sounds like she has it.
I would not play guessing games. I would contact the pediatrician immediately and see if she wants you to bring your child in for treatment.
The reason why the chicken pox vaccine works in some people, but not others, lies in what the shot consists of: the varicella innoculation keeps you from getting chicken pox by introducing a small bit of the actual chicken pox virus into the body, hopefully causing the body to fight back against it, and create immunity. Some people, especially adults, have no reaction whatsoever, but because children's immune systems are so young, and their little bodies so small, sometimes the vaccination can actually cause the virus.
So, she has chicken pox. It is highly contagious, so keep her out of school and away from siblings and other children: treat it as you would normally treat chicken pox. Get some aveeno oatmeal bath, and bath her in it at night as long as she has the spots, but when you DO bathe her, make sure the water is on the cooler side rather than the hotter (the hot water will make her itching worse). Calamine lotion will be your lifesaver, so invest in a bottle of that too.
Call her pediatirician and let him/her know that your child has chicken pox so that they add it to her chart.
Good luck! CHicken pox are not fun, but they go away!
Dear T. L,
My advice is to take her into the doctor it could be a reaction to either the varicella shot and or one of the other shots. My son turned out to be allergic to the dtp and the varicella shot. He had a red rash and it got bigger by the hour. His whole left thigh you couldn't get sweat pants over. It later developed a infection in the leg. Have her checked out by the doctor. It's better to be safe than sorry. M. Petersen
Both of my sons had them after the vaccine. One got them on his arms and legs. The other just had like 8 bumps throughout his body.
Also one of my sons have infant measles which just started out with a few bumps then had them everywhere within a few hours and they were raised, just looked like a rash everywhere. (He had all his vaccines too). Hope that helps.
My son had the same group of shots at his 12 mo. appointment in February. He got the exact same reaction to the chicken pox vaccine. It's nothing to worry about, the bumps will go away in a week or so and it's not contagious to anyone that get's close to her. A small percentage of kids who get the vaccine get this reaction and it's harmless. If you notice that the bumps are starting to itch and bother her, maybe try giving her an oatmeal bath. I used the Aveeno oatmeal bath packets for my son and it seemed to calm the itch a bit.
This is why i read up on vaccines before my son was born and there were certain vaccines i chose to make sure he didnt get. chicken pox is one of them. ridiculous vaccine. but not as bad as the flu shot or as the polio shot. (which by the way, no one has had actual polio since 1954, except for those who got it from the vaccine itself......recorded with the CDC.)
I wouldnt even let them give the hep.b shot, cause its a shot to protect against a sexually transmitted disease....and the shot will barely last 10 years....so why give a child something that they cant even use and put their health at risk with the adverse effects of those darn money-making vaccines. some vaccines are good and needed, but most of them are not. read up on them.
my daughters doc. (dr. Sears) told us to not even bother getting it, beucase it doesn't work very well. They will either get it as an adult if they do get the shot and it will be alot worse, or they can just not get the shot and get it over with on their own. So, that is the one and only shot that she isn't getting.
