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Can we discuss "chickenpox lollipops?"
I say yuck. If you don't want your kid to get the vaccine, can you say no? Are all the vaccines mandatory for public school? I would rather have my kid get the vaccine than do this lollipop thing. http://www.parents.com/blogs/goodyblog/2011/11/a-crazy-chickenpox-story/
Re: Can we discuss "chickenpox lollipops?"
I'm pretty pro-vac (that's not a shock to anyone, I know :-P)
I will say that the chicken pox vaccine is the one that I still feel a bit 'meh' about.
The reading I've done is pretty compelling that actually catching the disease is better immunity than the vaccine. It's also *usually* just a mild disease--as long as someone catches it at the 'magical' ages of older than an infant and younger than an adult.(although, I say that and I have scarring from mine...)
(that being said, since the danger years are a kid catching it before age 5...I'm not willing to, with my kid, take the chance on her catching it at age 1, when it would still be really really really scary. So she got the vaccine)
But thinking catching it 'naturally' is not a bad thing is a far far cry from paying a stranger to illegally mail you infected candy that has a chance to give your kid strep and mumps but not chicken pox. (so you just created a lot of needless heartache)
The whole idea is pretty gross... are people actually buying/using those?
The whole chickenpox discussion makes me kind of nervous, since I don't think I had chickenpox as a child and I don't even know if I got the vaccine (and isn't it only "effective" for a short while anyway?). I kind of wish my mom had been the type to expose me to another kid who had it so I would hopefully have gotten a mild case and been done with it.
If you'r a grown up who isn't sure if you've gotten the shot, talk to youir doc and GET IT. Yes, the immunity seems to wear off, but that's better than no immunity.
(and getting it 'natrually' doesn't mean it's always mild. I got it at a 'safe' age and have scarring AND got it twice)
You really should get the vaccine. I don't know how old you are, but there was no vaccine when I was a kid. Chickenpox is generally much harsher and has more complications if you contract it in adulthood. A stat that has always stuck with me is that less than 5% of chickenpox cases are found in adults, yet adults make up half of the deaths attributed to chickenpox.
eta: Even if you contract CP after receiving the vax, it is likely to be a much milder case than you otherwise would have had.
This whole thing grosses me out. I don't understand why you would want to expose your kid to a stranger's germs. And I don't see why you would just get the vax.
My grandma remembers her neighbor kid bringing a lollipop for her kids when they had the chicken pox. She wanted the kids to suck on it, then take it home so her kids could "get it over with" all at once.
Me, too! She sent all five of us to a cousin's house to play. We got them right on schedule.
My thought about those lollipops is that in addition to passing along chicken pox, couldn't it also pass along herpes or mumps or pretty much any other communicable disease? Why in the world would I let my kid put someone else's kid's lollipop in his mouth? Ew.