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Chickenpox Lollipops
What in the hell is wrong with people?! Nevermind, I already know. This is dumber than "chickenpox parties."
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Chicken pox parties are still around? We had them when I was little long before the vaccine was even a thought. The idea was that it was far better for a child to get chicken pox while young than to get them when they became an adult. Both of my kids had them since they were still working on the vaccine when they were young. Both were exposed to cases before the other child actually broke out with the poxes. Luckily, both of them had VERY mild cases.
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W. T. F.
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Ugh. I hate that people deliberately give kids the chickenpox. Chickenpox usually is a mild disease, but if you have it, you usually never get rid of it. The virus lurks in your body for the rest of your life. When you are over 60 or become immune compromised, it can spring back to life and give you shingles, which is extremely painful, and which can reoccur over and over.
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My oldest had chickenpox at age 4.5. Six years later My youngest got the vaccine at 5 y.o. I am much more worried about kid2 getting reinfected vs. kid 1.
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Once the vaccine came out, my 7 youngest got it (the older ones had already had chicken pox). Every one of the vaccinated ones got chicken pox anyway. When I asked the doctor about it, he said they got a lighter case than they would have without the vaccine.I think he made that up since their cases were as bad as those of my unvaccinated ones.
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But to speak to DrPhil's original post - that's pretty darn irresponsible to knowingly ship infectious material. Had something happened to the packaging, couldn't some unsuspecting person have been exposed? I realize that chicken pox isn't exactly anthrax, but still. |
No. That's my final answer.
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Ew.
I have had the pox, but as an infant, so I don't remember it. I always cringed when people I knew got it at older ages because their descriptions of how they felt were SO AWFUL. I used to be like "man I'm glad I got it as a baby." One time, someone told me (in elementary school) that I could still get it even though I'd had it before and I cried. lol. |
/\ It's possible. I had a mild case of chickenpox as a child (around 7) and had another outbreak later at 22 years old, which took me over a month to recover from.
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^^^^I've heard that. I've also heard of it resurfacing as shingles. *shudder*
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