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C&P: Chicken Pox Parties?
Post is from 12-24 months. This seems to be a equal sided debate. I remember hearing about them when my sister was younger. Didn't know people still do them today.
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/49403147.aspx
Re: C&P: Chicken Pox Parties?
If he gets it naturally, then whatever. He has had the vax so hopefully he won't have to deal with that.
I had the chicken pox when I was around 8 and I was MISERABLE. I also have a scar on my eyebrow and had horrible itching/scratching. I couldn't do that to B on purpose.
M will be getting the chicken pox vaccine because even if she does get the chicken poxs then it will be a milder case instead of the full blown case that most get. I don't remember getting it since my mom said I had it when I was 2. But my dad had it when he was a teenager and he said it really sucked. The sores went down his throat.
I had it when I was 10 or so. I have 3-4 scars on my face and they are what I'm most insecure about physically. Hate them. So, yeah, I'll try to make sure my hypothetical future spawn don't get them.
I know when my sisters were younger, when one of the cousins got the pox, they ALL got it. ((There are about 10-15 cousins that are around my sisters' ages.)) All the parents kind of joke around that they had a 'party', when in all reality, they didn't. But, it worked out nice because they all got them at the same time and they were done with it. Also, last year my 4 year old cousin got them, so my other three 4 year old cousins and 2 year old were also exposed and got a small case of them since they'd all had the vax. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with 'chicken pox parties'... if you're going to get them, you're going to get them. If you're not, you're not. And, with that particular side of my family, it's hard to keep one child secluded - when we go and do, we go and do all together.
So, these people are exposing their children to a virus that could later cause them to have shingles, which is really painful condition? Yeah, why would I do that?
I had the pox as a child, but I wasn't that miserable. But, just because I had it easy doesn't mean any hypothetical future spawn (had to steal that, okla) will, too. Vaccine it is.
The chicken pox vaccine was one that I felt conflicted about giving DS, but in the end, remembering how miserable I was when I had the chicken pox, I decided I couldn't put him through that when there was a way to prevent it.
This also really swayed me:
"About 1 of every 100 children infected with chickenpox will develop a severe lung infection(pneumonia), an infection of the brain (encephalitis), or a problem with the liver. Dangerous skin infections also can occur. Before the introduction of the vaccine, about 100,000 people were hospitalized and 100 people in the United States died each year of chickenpox, most of them previously healthy children."
DD had the vaccine and still got the chicken pox when she was about 7 or so. It was a very, very mild case, though. It actually took us several days to even figure out that's what it was because it didn't really look like chicken pox and she didn't itch.