Is there a correlation between number of lesions and adequate immunity?
I was breastfeeding my second child when the older child contracted
Chickenpox.  The oldest had a major case complete with secondary infection.
My nursling, 17 months at the time, promptly broke out on the fourteenth day
after his sister.  He had 8, easy to count, lesions all on his back, and
very minor other symptoms, slight temperature elevation and runny nose only
for a few days.
He is now 16 and I have repeatedly exposed him to every infected person I
ran across because I was concerned he did not have adequate immunity.  He
has never had another case of chickenpox, or shingles.
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Subject: Re: chickenpox in 36 week twin


>30 lesions in premie
>twins shows excellent immunologic protection. In fact enough protection
that
>they might not mount their own response and get chickenpox in a few years
or
>develop shingles.
>
>Mary Murphy MD

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