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Can A Person Never Infected With Chicken Pox Has Higher Risk To Get Infected With Pox?
My wife is 29 years old and has never had the Chicken Pox. When she was younger, she received two Chicken Pox vaccines, and has never had an outbreak. We are supposed to be seeing a friend from out of town and her 3 daughters, but one of them has just contracted Chicken Pox. The other 2 are not showing symptoms yet.
Can you give us an idea about how much of a risk it would be for my wife to be around our friend and her 2 other daughters (not the one with Chicken Pox)? There is a chance that my wife might be in a very early stage of pregnancy, so we are trying to assess risk factors and how likely it would be for my wife to catch the Chicken Pox at this point. We aren't completely sure how the virus would be transmitted between carriers, etc. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Can you give us an idea about how much of a risk it would be for my wife to be around our friend and her 2 other daughters (not the one with Chicken Pox)? There is a chance that my wife might be in a very early stage of pregnancy, so we are trying to assess risk factors and how likely it would be for my wife to catch the Chicken Pox at this point. We aren't completely sure how the virus would be transmitted between carriers, etc. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thu, 27 Mar 2014
Hello,
Welcome to HCM,
As there is a case of chickenpox in a place which your wife want to visit. Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease which is transmitted from a case of chicken pox to the healthy individual.
It is transmitted by droplet infection and droplet nuclei which is produced duringthe act of speaking, coughing, and sneezing.
As your wife had taken two doses of chicken pox vaccine by this time it would have induced protective antibody titres to fight against the chicken pox virus. The vaccination will give 99% protection and chance of acquiring the infection will be ver very less.
As there will be a antibodies against the virus nothing will happen you can go on with planning for family expansion.
Thank you.
Welcome to HCM,
As there is a case of chickenpox in a place which your wife want to visit. Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease which is transmitted from a case of chicken pox to the healthy individual.
It is transmitted by droplet infection and droplet nuclei which is produced duringthe act of speaking, coughing, and sneezing.
As your wife had taken two doses of chicken pox vaccine by this time it would have induced protective antibody titres to fight against the chicken pox virus. The vaccination will give 99% protection and chance of acquiring the infection will be ver very less.
As there will be a antibodies against the virus nothing will happen you can go on with planning for family expansion.
Thank you.
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