Chickenpox Vaccine Rash
A mild fever and a rash which looks like chickenpox but with fewer spots can occur about 2 weeks after the vaccine.
Chickenpox vaccine rash. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus vzv. Chickenpox consists of an itchy red rash that breaks out on the face scalp chest back and to a lesser. Common reactions to the vaccine may include soreness redness and swelling where the vaccine was given. It can also cause fever tiredness loss of appetite and headache.
The rash can spread over the whole body. The rash appears first on the chest back and face and then spreads over the entire body. Chickenpox is a disease that causes an itchy rash of blisters and a fever. It causes an itchy blister like rash.
Chickenpox can be serious even life threatening especially in babies adolescents adults pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. Chickenpox can cause an itchy rash that usually lasts about a week. Varicella vaccine can prevent chickenpox. If the rash were caused by the vaccine the risk of transmission is very small.
The itchy blister rash caused by chickenpox infection appears 10 to 21 days after exposure to the virus and. A person with chickenpox may have as many as 500 blisters.