Posted by Becky on 4/28/2003, 10:37 am, in reply to "Chicken pox"
The same thing happened to my husband when he was about 3 to 4 months out from transplant. I work with young kids at our church & held a baby who came down with chicken pox that week. We called the transplant office & they told us not to worry about it since I had already had them (even though it is common in my family to get them twice). We did still watch him very closely, it's the shingles that really worried me, they are very hard to recover from. It would hurt to let your transplant team know, then if there are signs, they can start treatment early. Good luck.
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on 4/28/2003, 10:37 am, in reply to "Chicken pox"
