It's really easy to determine if your son is immune...it's a simple
blood test.  We didn't know if my husband was immune, as his parents are
both dead.  We asked for the test and he is.

We don't do many vaccinations, so our answer to chickenpox is if our
kids don't get it by age 12 or so, we will check for immunity (they've
been exposed, they could have had a mild case without us knowing, or I
could have passed on immunity through BF) and if they don't have
immunity, we will give them the vaccine.

Joylyn

Jim & Winnie Mading wrote:

>When discussing how breastfeeding provides immunity I often share
>this experience (although I don't always identify it as my own).
>When my youngest was just over a year old and still nursing, the 2
>older children came down with full-blown cases of chickenpox.  The
>nursing child wound up with one pock!  When I would ask docs whether
>this was enough to provide him with lifelong immunity the answer
>(even from one of the LLLI Med. Advisors) was, "Well, if he gets it
>at some later date, he wasn't immune."!
>He never did get it and is now32 years old.  The vaccine came out
>later than his childhood years so he never got that and I don't know
>if he has been exposed to the disease.
>
>Winnie
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