07-14-2006, 03:08 AM
The CDC says " Although infants are at higher risk for serious and fatal complications than are older children, the risk for healthy, full-term infants who develop varicella following postnatal exposure is substantially less than for infants whose mothers were infected 5 days before to 2 days after delivery. VZIG is not recommended for healthy, full-term infants who are exposed postnatally, even if their mothers have no history of varicella infection. "
link http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00042990.htm
link http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00042990.htm