Guest Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hi all We currently have a few children who appear to have slap cheek at the moment. We have looked in our yellow child health folder and have made our parents aware as we have quite a few pregnant mums at the mo! The question I am asking is whether anyone knows if you can catch slap cheek twice? One of our mums has said that you can't. And as her daughter has already had slap cheek that she hasn't got it again. Although she clearly appears to have. Even the child said 'I had slap cheek yesterday!'. If it was any other child we may assume that their perception of time is not good, but not this child, she is sharp as a knife. I am sure some of your knowledgeable lot know alot more about this than me. I had never heard of slap cheek until I started working in pre-school (having raised 2 children of my own and having gone through pre-school and school with them without having heard of it!) Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I have just looked on the NHS direct site and it says "One infection is thought to confer lifelong immunity"-so your parent could be right. But it does say "thought" so I suppose it is possible to get it a second time. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 If a child has slap cheek should they go to the doctors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Bunny Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) Our infection control unit has just published am A3 glossy poster for all our settings and it says that the period for a child to be away from school/nursery is 'none', so I would deduce that there is no need for a visit to the doctor and no treatment as such? The other comments are: to be wary of vulnerable children (those with low immune systems, being treated for cancer/leukaemia etc) and obviously pregnant women, particularly in the first 20 weeks. It doesn't answer if you can get it twice, but if our Children's Centre health co-ordinator is in today, I'll ask her! ***Update: our health person agrees that you usually only catch it once, but like chickenpox, there is the possibility of it being repeated to a lesser degree. Edited January 24, 2007 by Running Bunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblejack Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 In my experience I have known children to catch infectious illness twice.If they only suffer mildly the first time they may not have built up an immunity.The first time I had come across slap cheek was about 10 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inge Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 my son had it twice, Inge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Thanks everyone Especially Inge, that it very handy to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hali Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 my daughter had it twise also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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