Chicken pox outbreak - Page 2

[PrinceE&LsMom]

I believe my kids had the organic wild pox lol. They were exposed while on a trip to Mexico and as far as dh's mom knew they don't vax for pox there. I saw lots of scabby kids there and thought it's about time - oldest ds was 6 years at the time.

[wtchyhlr]

Anyone in Colorado Spgs have the chickenpox? If so, I want to expose my DS....

[pinkmilk]

Does anyone know for how long the fake chicken pox virus is shed fo after vacination?

[KatSG]

I had CP when I was 10 and it was pretty bad. What was funny is that we thought I'd already had it. I had some other similar illness (or was it cp? who knows) when I was about 2-3, I even still remember it because my nanny's twin nieces were in charge of keeping me from scratching!

I've heard that the older you are the worse it is. When I had it at 10 I was covered in scabby pox, though I only have on scar, and that's because I thought it was a zit and picked at it. I felt really awful and didn't go to school for a week. My mother and everyone around me seemed pretty unconcerned. We all knew I'd recover.

They don't vax for CP in France and a friend of mine has two dds, both of whom got it last year. The older one, about 4 got a good case of it but was only down for a few days. The littler one about age 2, just got a few spots. My friend, who is American but hasn't lived here since she was a teenager, was really incredulous that there is a vax in the US for this now, considering how it's just not that big a deal in otherwise healthy kids.

[cam&kat's_mom]

Originally Posted by blessed

On a pediatrician's forum there's an active thread talking about the CP outbreak that the docs are all seeing. This seems to be almost exclusively occurring in the vaxed kids, although these docs only SEE vaxed kids (they fire families who don't vax), so for whatever that's worth.

One doc made the comment about having personally seen 20 cases in the past week - all vaxed kids so all the cases were mild, thank goodness.

Has anyone ever seen CP in an otherwise healthy kid that wasn't mild?

Actually I have seen a very severe chicken pox case in an otherwise healthy child. My DD had it at 6 months (we wouldnt' have vax even if she WAS old enough). She was covered head to toe, her mouth, her throat, vaginal area, hair. insides ears etc. it was AWFUL. She had some spots teh size of half dollars on her and ended up on an antibiotic for a secondary skin infection and a cream for the sores. (Forget what it was called) But she looked liek a burn victim her skin peeled so badly. (the crema was actually what they would apply to burn victims) She was covered for 25 days. And absolutely miserable. Ds had them 2 weeks before she got them. I was shocked that she got them cause she was EBF at that point I would have thought she still had some antibodies form me.
While i am glad she got them and overwith it was very scarey and her fever soared and nothin, even nursing soothed her. (Aveeno baths helped a bit ) It was a long month byteh time she was all scabbed over. I stil would rather her get the natural form than the shot but it wasn't fun to go through. Luckily she won't remember it.
So it really isn't always mild in an otherwise healthy child. IMO

[KatSG]

Oh, wow cam&kat's mom, that sounds horrendous. I'm so sorry you all went through that. I've never heard of CP that bad. Did your ped offer any explanation, like was it a strange strain or did they do any bloodwork to verify it was CP? Not doubting you at all, just curious, esp about the very large spots. I didn't know that could happen with cp.

[Zyla]

Chicken pox can indeed be very serious and quite unpleasant. My first son caught it at age 2 from our then housemate's children. He had a good case: well-covered, but not so bad to deal with. But my housemates kids were really sick: they had soaring fevers, huge infected spots (some were easily the size of half dollars and quarters), and like the pp daughter, spots literally everywhere.