Chickenpox: As part of your early pregnancy screening test, you should have been checked for your immunity to varicella. See your doctor, and if not, ask for a test. If you are immune, it will protect you against chickenpox. You are young enough that you should have received a vaccine. Some people have chickenpox with so few symptoms, it is not recognized. Chickenpox is more dangerous close to term. Keep saf
Answered 8/11/2016
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Depends: Your colleague is not a chickenpox carrier while her kid has them.Unless exposed to the kid, you are not at risk.The vaccine was first commercially available in 1984, and usually given at 1 and 4-5, so if you got the vaccine you would likely be immune.Your doc could run an antibody test to be sure. More than 90% of adults who thought they never had cpx were immune by testing before we had the vacc
Answered 8/28/2016
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