Spice kids passing chickenpox

kel1087 is correct, you have to have had the chicken pox virus in order to get shingles later in life. Mine was brought on by extreme stress. Not everyone will get shingles if they have had chicken pox. As for the vaccine my sons range in age from 16 to 5 there was no vaccine offered when the oldest was young. I let him get expose to the chicken pox probably 5 times before he got it. Now he will not have to suffer the severe symptoms and complications that my brother did when he got them at age 35. Sure he may, and I stress may get shingles but if you ever saw an adult with chicken pox it was worth it. My youngest has been vaccinated and his Pedi. told me when I asked that they are not sure how long or effective the immunization will last or be. So now my youngest will need a booster about age 10 or 12, and so on and so on,
That is what his dr. recommends for precaution. Please remember whooping cough, polio, etc. was all but erraticadited and is now making a come back this can be the same for chicken pox. No immunization is 100% guarnteed.

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my kids got them twice about 20 years ago no vaccine first set was very mild next they wee covered.

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ok. let me set you straight people. lol.
heres the FACTS...you CAN NOT get shingles unless you have been exposed to the chicken pox. SHINGLES are NOT contagious. but if you have shingels you can give someone who HASNT HAD pox, pox. the ONLY WAY to get shingles is to have been sxposed to pox, even if you didnt have any signs of pox.

chicken pox can be dangerous IF you have a damged immune system, and it is very rare. i had chicken pox.

and no, vaccines do NOT ward off any form of pox. you got a mild case bc of your immune system, not bc of the vaccine. in fact, im not even sure if they were pox.
doenst sound right, in my opinion.

my sister had pox, i had pox. my mother did not get it bc her immunity to it. BUT bc she was exposed to the herpes zoster virus, there is a chance she could get shingles.

shingles is a nerve disorder, which is why it is painful. the herpes virus that causes pox/shingles lies dormant in your nerves.

please read up before ya'll start telling people half truths.

i know plenty fo kids who are not vaccinated...and plenty who had it.

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I am in my 40's now but had the chicken pox first at age 4 and then two more times after that each increasingly worse. So, my children have been immunized and my 10 year old just had his first booster. From my experience, getting them the "old fashion" way didn't help me from being infected two more times!

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i am a college freshman and still have not had the chicken pox. my mom used to take both me and my siblings around all of my cousins when we were younger so we would get them, and yet none of us came down with them. once we got into middle school my mom decided to get us the vaccine because she was worried about us missing too much school if we did ever get them.

hopefully the vaccine keeps its work up, i don't need them now, but neither my dad or his two brothers have had them either which is weird...

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i'm 25 and never had the chickenpox.......

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All you celebrity-obsessed analphrenics have missed the real story. Considering how dangerous and miserable chicken pox can be, someone's got to ask: What kind of low-life mother leaves her sick child for a paycheck? If any complication happens to her child, Halliwell will never forgive herself for abandoning her child in a time of danger -- and nor should she.

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I am the grandmother of a 13 year old boy with autism, his 6 year old twin brothers do Not have autism. I believe it is due to their mother's caution in running out and getting every vaccine as soon as it is out. A 2 year old child we know was given the chickenpox vaccine and was in the hospital the next day with a severe reaction, they thought she had leukemia or some other dread disease. The hospital would not accept that the vaccine had anything to do with this but we are not sure. The child has some brain delay but otherwise, seems to be o.k. Just be careful.

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Poster #2,
If your children are never
sick, they are not building
an immune system. When
they ebgin to sociaize with
other kids they may become very ill.

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Herbalist Mom,
I respect your views on vaccination and chemical-free lifestyles. I don't agree with all of your points, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Then, I read one of your later comments. Puleeze! Your children "have never cried in public," -- yea right. They never "grab" or "whine." What kind of kids are you raising?!! Even the most well-behaved child has an occassional meltdown when you're out and about. If what you're writing is really true, and your child has never misbehaved in public, I think you need to pay a visit to your pediatrician. Your kids might not have runny noses, but something isn't right.

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Slightly off-topic, in regard to the new comment rating system - in this whole (somewhat contentious) debate I'm seeing only 2 comments that are anything but rated 2 stars, and those are 2 1/2. I think the sensitivity to reader-ratings needs to be cranked up a little bit.

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