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I took my daughter Karli to the doctor for her 12 month shots. This series included chicken pox.
Guess what? She now has chicken pox, I thought this whole exercise was to prevent it!
Grrrr…thankfully the symptoms are mild, and she should be over it quickly, but that isn’t the point.
My poor little girl, she’s all spotted now. *sad face*
She’s cheerful though, and active, so it doesn’t seem to be slowing her down much.
Kyrin
I’ve never had chicken pox…
Did they say that it for sure prevents a child from getting chicken pox? If so, I’d be angry… 🙁I think that the vaccine introduces a milder form of the virus so that the body produces it’s own immunity. Sometimes that means that you actually get the thing they vaccinated you for just, hopefully, not as bad.
Hope your little one feels better soon!
Here’s hoping she gets better soon. I’m glad she’s not suffering.
My eldest brother and I had shots for something; after that, my parents stopped going to the doctor. We generally rely on do-it-yourself cures now, unless it’s a broken bone.My daughter had the shot too. I don’t think it’s meant to prevent it entirely – after all, chicken pox is one of the infantile diseases, right? It is benign for children, but bad for adults. Chinook ended up having a very mild chicken pox a few months later (even a year later, don’t remember). No fever, just the spots. We kept her home from the babysitter’s to avoid contagion anyway. So now she got it, mildly, and won’t be at risk as an adult.
I believe that “before”, chicken pox could be, if not deadly, have harmful effects in the long run, hence the vaccine.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmGeez, whatever happened to just catching the chicken pox and getting it over with?
My entire second grade class went down with it. On any given day for about a month or so there were only about ten or fifteen kids in a 30 kid class. There were chicken pox parties and everything.
We had a little fever, bathed in calamine lotion and recovered. I only remember being miserable for a day or so, and after that just itchy.
Not criticizing, this is just how I would do it, but if I had a kid, chicken pox would not be on my list of vaccines. MMR, T/D and the rest of the usual childhood run, yes, but not chicken pox. That’s just part of growing up.
Kujacker wrote:I’ve never had chicken pox…
Did they say that it for sure prevents a child from getting chicken pox? If so, I’d be angry… 🙁No, they state clearly that it can cause a mild case. But it is annoying because they insist that kids get the vaccine to prevent the disease, not cause it!
My opinion on chicken pox, is you are better off just having the disease naturally, as it is rarely serious, but draw the line with deliberately causing it. On the other hand, if she didn’t get the vac and then also didn’t get the disease, then she’d be at risk of getting it as an adult, which does become more dangerous. So it’s a tough call.
Upside in this situation, she won’t remember any of the discomfort later.
The really annoying thing though, is it is possible to get chicken pos more than once in a lifetime, if your first bout with it is too mild. So I am hoping that with the vax and the mild case Karli is experiencing will be equivalent to a stronger reaction, so she isn’t at risk to get it again.
Kyrin
Rusti wrote:Geez, whatever happened to just catching the chicken pox and getting it over with?
My entire second grade class went down with it. On any given day for about a month or so there were only about ten or fifteen kids in a 30 kid class. There were chicken pox parties and everything.
We had a little fever, bathed in calamine lotion and recovered. I only remember being miserable for a day or so, and after that just itchy.
Not criticizing, this is just how I would do it, but if I had a kid, chicken pox would not be on my list of vaccines. MMR, T/D and the rest of the usual childhood run, yes, but not chicken pox. That’s just part of growing up.
Yeah, I agree. Only problem is, with so many people vaccinating, your surety of getting chicken pox these days is a lot lower, so likelyhood of contracting it as a child is much reduced these days.
So they’ve kinda got you in a position of having to vax, because its a bad idea to get the pox as an adult, and if you can’t be sure you can get exposed to it as a child, then you really need the vax.
It’s kind of a no win.
Kyrin
I somehow managed to escape childhood without ever having the chicken pox. My brother even had it twice, the second time being very mild. When ever my mom heard about someone whose kids had chicken pox she would take us to go play with them so we would be exposed to it. It never mattered for me because I never got it. Now I’m 29 and dreading even asking the doctor about a vaccine because I don’t want to get the adult form Shingles.
Kujacker> Oh dear…just how old are you? I got the chicken pox when I was entering middle school, which is old enough…but then my then-18-year-old brother caught it from me. The reason I ask is…the older you are, the worse the chicken pox is for you. You get flu- like symptoms…including stomach-flu like symptoms. : Not to make you discouraged…but uh…be careful. If you have kids and they bring home the chicken pox and you catch it from them…you may not be able to take care of them that well. 🙁
Y’know what was sad about my contraction of chicken pox? I was in a fun sort of summer school class where we were putting on a play, and I had auditioned and gotten the lead role. The people who coached us, who were the drama teachers for the middle school, all said I was really good and could at least continue on to drama classes through high school and do well.
Then guess what happened a day or two before the show was put on. D: Yep, I got all spotty.
I have bad luck.
rockerbot wrote:Kujacker> Oh dear…just how old are you? I got the chicken pox when I was entering middle school, which is old enough…but then my then-18-year-old brother caught it from me. The reason I ask is…the older you are, the worse the chicken pox is for you. You get flu- like symptoms…including stomach-flu like symptoms. : Not to make you discouraged…but uh…be careful. If you have kids and they bring home the chicken pox and you catch it from them…you may not be able to take care of them that well. 🙁
I don’t want any human kids (animal kids please :D) so I won’t be catching it from that… but if I happen to come in contact with someone else’s kid at some point… 🙁 Is it caught by germs? Or something else? If germs I’m covered :3 I’m a germaphobe, hand-sanitizer is on my person at all times and I’m always washing my hands lol. I’m 21, btw.
I got chicken pox in my mid-twenties from my housemate who was a preK teacher. We were both really, really sick for a week. Totally miserable. Ran high fevers, itched constantly, were achy – it was like a bad case of the flu with itching. One of the most miserable weeks of my life.
I’d say be careful about not vaccinating. Talk to you doctor, do the research from reputable sources (there are some pretty crazy websites and magazines out there) I was a nanny I had a little guy who got them naturally and had a very bad case, so bad he wound up in the hospital! Chicken pox is very bad (so are measles, mumps and ruebella) if you’re and adult and can have serious consequences.
My poor Dad, who’d never been vaccinated, got the measles from my brother and I when we were young and was sick, as in not getting out of bed, for 2 weeks
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