The Chicken Pox Post Got me Thinking

[lolane]

But kids who are 6 and up often do feel much more ill.  So, in the pre-vaccine days I can understand parents wanting their kids to be exposed to CP before school-age.

Yes this was long before the days of the vaccine. Back then it was expected that you would get it and the sooner the better.

[Clara Bow]

Darn vaccines...they're making the kids soft, they are! There wouldn't be all this school violence if the little brats had a round of diptheria for the good of their souls!
My hubby and I were so jealous of my son getting a chicken pox vaccine and not having to endure that misery.

[shadowfox79]

But kids who are 6 and up often do feel much more ill.  So, in the pre-vaccine days I can understand parents wanting their kids to be exposed to CP before school-age.

You're telling me. I missed the first wave when I was about five, and ended up catching it when I was ten. My friend's little brother infected me, I think - although she came down with it two days after I did, bizarrely.

I was sick as a dog. They were everywhere, and I couldn't even cross the room without sitting down for a rest. That said, another friend's mother came down with them at about the same time and she was seriously ill. So I suppose catching it at ten is better than later. (My ex was fifteen when he caught it, and ended up growing a beard around the pox.)

[AdakAK]

I think they are still around.  Since more people have the vaccine, you just don't hear about it as much.  Those looking to avoid the vaccine still do it, but it is harder to find.

Our oldest three have had them, and all had a very mild case.  I am hoping that the youngest catches it sometime before he gets older.  When a friend's kids had the pox friends came to play hoping to catch it.

Susan