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Does anyone here believe in "pox parties"
Or even if it's not a pox "party," if you could easily expose your child to a known case of chicken pox (assuming your child is of an age and state of health where it would not be dangerous)--would you do it?
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Re: Does anyone here believe in "pox parties"
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Alissa Jean
9.10.2004
well, done with it until she is about 19 and gets it as an adult because said vax is no longer effective ---- and chicken pox as an adult is referred to as shingles and is extremely painful and normally leaves life long affects. God I hate that I got them this vaccine! HATE IT!
That's what we thought. DS got chicken pox last month even though he had been vaccinated. It was mild, though.
Not true. Chicken pox in adults is chicken pox, just a million times worse. Shingles only occurs in adults who had chicken pox as children.
Then you just get another vaccine as an adult.
Nora Judith 7/2/06 Miles Chauncey 4/20/09 born with Trisomy 21 - Down syndrome
Yep, that is why mine will not get the vax and I will expose them the first chance I get. Only if they don't get it naturally by late elementary would I get them the vax.
I'll make sure to write it in my date book for 14 years, 7 months and 3 days from now to bring the kids for a follow up chicken pox vaccine!
This is what I thought, too.
But by getting the vaccine, aren't they "getting" the chicken pox, therefore causing shingles in adult life?? I thought it was a live virus vaccines?
Don't think it's that hard to remember. Not vaccinating them for it never entered my mind.
Nora Judith 7/2/06 Miles Chauncey 4/20/09 born with Trisomy 21 - Down syndrome
No way, I don't think it's a good idea to willingly expose your kids to any type of virus.
The vax wasn't around when my son was little and I remember asking the DCP to keep him away from a kid who had the pox. He got it when he was 5 and he was fine, but still.
When on a vaccination schedule, I do think it would be hard to remember to get one "off schedule." I don't even know/remember what ones my kids need NOW -- never mind as adults. I leave that up to the pedi and their medical records when I bring them in. If the doc tells me "no shots" then I go with "no shots."
Maybe we will be here in 14 years and you can remind me!!!! hee,hee
When we were kids when we got them, my aunts all brought their kids over so they would all get them at the same time.
I think in all 10 cousins got it from us. We got it from a "dirty" kid in my little brother's class.
I got DD the vax.
There isn't a lot known about the correlation between the vaccine and shingles, as it is relatively new and the children who have received it have not grown into adults to see yet if it will be an issue or not. It is different from naturally-occurring chicken pox, though.
Absolutely not. Pro-vaccine for chicken pox.
My sister developed viral encephalitis from her chicken pox infection requiring hospitalization. This was just prior to the vaccine's release.
Shingles is the dormant CP virus flaring up due to stress, compromised immune system, etc. Anyone who had CP carries the possibility to "get" shingles later in life. Adults who get CP get CP - not shingles.
I had CP as a child, and "got" shingles when I was PG with DD (was under major stress). It was painful - but not "extremely", it was more bothersome and annoying. And left no "life long affects". I am fine and never had a flare up since then. No biggie.
Mommy to Rachel 1.15.06 and Ashley 5.17.11
Negative. DD has been vaccinated, and we'll vaccinate DS as soon as he's eligible. I just don't get the appeal of CP parties. I had the worst case of CP when I was seven. We're talking pox everywhere - all over my body, down my throat, on my scalp, in my ears, etc. Horrible! I was out of school for almost three weeks. And, b/c I got it, my three younger siblings got it shortly thereafter. So, my mother had to take care of four kids with CP all at once. No fun.
I just don't see the point in subjecting my kids to tsomething like that, if there's a vaccine that can prevent it. You don't see people signing up for measles or polio parties, do you?
https://www.nfid.org/pdf/factsheets/varicellaadult.pdf
You are lucky! Both my mother and Joe's gram have had shingles -- and they both still have intermittent pain in the areas where the break out was.
We joked about this with our pedi once and she equated "pox parties" to letting your kid play in traffic.
No, I wouldn't do it. Why let your child get it if they don't have to? I remember being miserable with chicken pox.
(m/c 1.17.07, m/c 5.15.07)
DS - 03.15.08
DD2 - 12.03.09
DD3 - 3.28.11
I would assume it is because I was fairly young - 31 years old. I would assume risks go up if you are in your 50s+ and get it. I got it all over one side of my hip/waist area. Doc gave me anti-viral and it cleared right up. No scars, no pain, nothing. Never had a smidge of an issue before that or after that! Doc said since i was PG, and seriously stressed out, it brought it out. Bizarre.
Mommy to Rachel 1.15.06 and Ashley 5.17.11
If I could find a child with CP we would be swapping sippy cups now. This vaccine has no long term effectiveness, we are going to have a bunch of 20 year old college students come down with the stupid virus that is dangerous as adults and can cause many complications it does not in kids. Do you people seriously think that you or your DS would have gotten a booster at say 21 or 22?
I am hoping DD and DS both get it if they don't we will have DD vaccinated right before she starts school in 3 years because it is the law.
I'd do your research. Failing to get them the vaccine and not exposing them to it is going to raise their chances of getting it later in life.
Spartangirl--equating it to playing in traffic is quite possibly the most ridiculous comparison I've ever heard. Playing in traffic is certain death, getting the chicken pox is not.
I would guess if it becomes a pandemic, epidemic, whatever ... that is might become mandatory to get the booster to enter college. I had to get something to enter college - tetnus? TB? Something. Maybe they would just tack it on to that.
And yeah, if I had to get the booster, I probably would have. But I follow directions usually - and if my doctor told me I needed the booster, I probably would have gotten it. Plus, I come from a family of doctors - they are usually on top of me about stuff like that. lol
Mommy to Rachel 1.15.06 and Ashley 5.17.11
yes i would. vaccines really screw with DS system. so we have put it off.
i would love for him to get it, so he does not have to get a vaccine.
BTW, his pedi agrees, after his reactions to the MMR.