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What Are The Transmission Modes Of Measles?

My co worker s son found out her son has measles, prior to her knowing about her son she was at work answering phones in the office where I sit. I have a three year old at home and a new born a couple of weeks old, will that exposure affect them. My three year old shots are up to date but the newborn is a three weeks old
Wed, 18 Mar 2015
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Measles is a viral disease primarily transmitted from person to person by large respiratory droplets . It can also spread by the airborne route such as aerosols. Infected people are usually contagious from 4- 6 days before until 4 -5 days after onset of rash. For babies Measles-mumps-rubella MMR vaccine is usually given at ninth month as a preventive vaccination.

For your 3 yr old kid kindly make sure he/she was given MMR at nine months of age and another booster is given at 3-5yrs of age.
For your 3week old baby if you have had measles before, your baby won’t need any treatment. This is because your antibodies would have passed to him/her in the womb during pregnancy. This gives him/her immunity to the virus for the first six months, and possibly a bit longer.also make sure you are breast feeding your child exclusively.
If you have not had measles before, he may be given an injection of human normal immunoglobin (HNIG). Kindly also look in for symptoms like fever, running nose so that you can contact the doctor immediately.
Hope this answers your query. Take care.
Dr.Riyanka



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What Are The Transmission Modes Of Measles?

Measles is a viral disease primarily transmitted from person to person by large respiratory droplets . It can also spread by the airborne route such as aerosols. Infected people are usually contagious from 4- 6 days before until 4 -5 days after onset of rash. For babies Measles-mumps-rubella MMR vaccine is usually given at ninth month as a preventive vaccination. For your 3 yr old kid kindly make sure he/she was given MMR at nine months of age and another booster is given at 3-5yrs of age. For your 3week old baby if you have had measles before, your baby won’t need any treatment. This is because your antibodies would have passed to him/her in the womb during pregnancy. This gives him/her immunity to the virus for the first six months, and possibly a bit longer.also make sure you are breast feeding your child exclusively. If you have not had measles before, he may be given an injection of human normal immunoglobin (HNIG). Kindly also look in for symptoms like fever, running nose so that you can contact the doctor immediately. Hope this answers your query. Take care. Dr.Riyanka