Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, May 29, 2003

[Ramon de Ramon y Ramon]

Originally posted by WillowIX: *gasps* Cut her up? I would never! You can actually have rubella without even notice it. The symptoms vary from person to person. Nothing to worry about, except if my hubby catches it. But I'm not sure it is rubella. It looks like it, but AFAIK it could be erythema infectiosum or perhaps an allergic reaction. [img]smile.gif[/img] I just want to be on the safe side.

How to breach that topic with "delicacy"? Well, here we go: am I right that your husband catching rubella would only constitute a reason for real worry if the two of you were still contemplating having another child? [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 05-30-2003, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: Ramon de Ramon y Ramon ]

[Sigmar]

Man I was reading over some old threads and I've been LMAO

Seriously just go like a year back and look at the stuff you've posted, I can't believe I've said most of what I typed

Morgeraut calling me Soggy and...what the hell was I on when I decided to do that rap

Anywho. Fanfaction you say Kaltia? What fanfiction do you write?

Night Stalker, I'll take that car battery fluid thanks.

[Donut]

Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon: quote: Originally posted by WillowIX: *gasps* Cut her up? I would never! You can actually have rubella without even notice it. The symptoms vary from person to person. Nothing to worry about, except if my hubby catches it. But I'm not sure it is rubella. It looks like it, but AFAIK it could be erythema infectiosum or perhaps an allergic reaction. [img]smile.gif[/img] I just want to be on the safe side.

How to breach that topic with "delicacy"? Well, here we go: am I right that your husband catching rubella would only constitute a reason for real worry if the two of you were still contemplating having another child? [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]No man! Dat be da mumps! Rubella (or German Measles!) is dangerous to pregnant women.

[WillowIX]

Originally posted by Donut: No man! Dat be da mumps! Rubella (or German Measles!) is dangerous to pregnant women.

Quite right. BUT all childhood diseases are more dangerous to adults than to children. Some are more dangerous than others but catching a childhood disease while adult is a cause of concern.

If I were to catch rubella I think I would be recommended to wait 3-4 months before becoming pregnant. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Ramon de Ramon y Ramon]

Originally posted by WillowIX: quote: Originally posted by Donut: No man! Dat be da mumps! Rubella (or German Measles!) is dangerous to pregnant women.

Quite right. BUT all childhood diseases are more dangerous to adults than to children. Some are more dangerous than others but catching a childhood disease while adult is a cause of concern.

If I were to catch rubella I think I would be recommended to wait 3-4 months before becoming pregnant. [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]But if that is so, why were you not worried about catching rubella yourself in your original post? Because you had it yourself as a child and reckon you are still immunized today, but your husband didn't have it as a child? [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Donut]

Originally posted by WillowIX: Well she did get a rubella vaccination when she was 14 months old. And that is supposed to last for about 10 years. Apparently it didn't. I'm gonig down there at 2pm to get some answers and you can rest assured I will ask about this. The "good" news is that the hubby has to come with us to get a shot of his own. Anyway, it's better she has rubella now than in 20 years. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Primary immunisation only works in about 95% of people, that's why she should have had a booster before she was 4. In the UK girls are further immunised at age 14.

[Donut]

Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon: But if that is so, why were you not worried about catching rubella yourself in your original post? Because you had it yourself as a child and reckon you are still immunized today, but your husband didn't have it as a child? [img]smile.gif[/img]

I'm sure Willow would have been checked for rubella antibodies at the beginning of her first pregnancy. As long as she is immune it doesn't matter about her husband.

[Cloudbringer]

I was going to ask if she'd had a booster shot or not. Willow, I had all the childhood diseases Mumps, chickenpox, measles and the rubella vaccination but my brother didn't get them or as in the mumps, only got them on one side. So when I became the only teen in the neighborhood who could babysit for households where the chickenpox had broken out, it seems I carried them back to my 14 yr old brother and the doctors told us it was harder on teens and adults to have any of those diseases.

I always assumed it was because the younger you are the easier it is to recuperate from them. But I have heard that sometimes you just get a heavier case of it when older. I hope your hubby doesn't get sick!

[Attalus]

Willow, is there any rash? Erythema infectiosum is epidemic, here, so maybe that's it. MagiK, sugar is an antiseptic as well as an aid to healing tissue. Anything that decreases the bacteria count is going too aid healing.

[Kaltia]

Originally posted by Sigmar: Anywho. Fanfaction you say Kaltia? What fanfiction do you write?

Mostly Baldur's Gate. I'm on www.fanfiction.net under the name, well, Kaltia.