Baby ward chicken pox scare
A doctor with chicken pox triggered a health scare on the maternity ward at a Black Country hospital with mothers and babies being given emergency tests. A doctor with chicken pox triggered a health scare on the maternity ward at a Black Country hospital with mothers and babies being given emergency tests. The junior doctor's condition was discovered this week at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley. Staff said the outbreak was contained and proper procedures followed. A nurse who asked not to be named, said:"Everyone has been talking about it and I know they had to check everyone who came into contact with him." Read the full story in the Express & Star
Complications are rare in healthy children but occasionally there can be inflammation of part of the brain responsible for balance, which results in unsteadiness.
The most severe complications are usually with children on treatments that affect their ability to fight off infection.
No other treatment than calamine lotion for the rash and paracetamol for the fever is usually needed
Dudley Group of Hospitals chief executive Paul Farenden said: "Chicken pox cannot be detected until a rash appears on the body, and as soon as the rash appeared it was reported to the infection control team.
"All the contacts have been traced and no further action was necessary."
