Chicken pox 'party'

choccyface2006

I would meet up too. Most people will get chickenpox so I think its best to get it out of the way, better now when it is relitivly convienent for you than when it might not be, such as before a holiday, wedding or Christmas!

Sarah x

Spendless

My eldest got it the week after he'd started reception and my neice the day after they went on holiday to Cyprus, so I'd want to be more in control of when they got it too.

Sarahjovi

I organised a coach trip for the local toddler group, on the day of the trip one of the mums phoned me to say one of her boys had chicken pox and was it ok to come as he wasn't poorly just had a few spots. I told her it was fine. Two weeks later, 11 children:eek: that had been on the trip including my son came down with chicken pox, and another 2 weeks after that more children came down with it including my 6 month old daughter (who hadn't been on the trip, but caught it from my son). Most of the mums on the trip were fine with it and happy for thier children to get chicken pox at an early age.

Most children will get chicken pox at one point or another, so best to get it out of the way!

I always refer to it know as the chicken pox trip!

Sarah:D

liney

Chicken pox can have complications. I would not deliberatly try to infect my son with it ! Please ring your nurse at the GP and ask what she thinks.

shopndrop

My son played with children with chickenpox when he was younger but never got it, so I just assumed he was immune to it. He then got it when he was starting at secondary school and was very poorly with it and also much more conscious of the scars left by the spots. I just wish he would have got it earlier.

adouglasmhor

I know someone who has a lazy eye from a bout of chicken pox and another person who has partial deafness from it.

Need_More_Money_2

It used to be quite common for people to intentionally organise 'chicken pox parties' so that children could be exposed to the disease and 'get it out of way'. I think this is usually NOT advised by health professionals. Whilst it is generally true that chicken pox is milder in children than in adults, it can be extremely serious and lead to major complications. Intentionally exposing a child to such a disease doesn't sound very sensible to me.

crutches

Outnumberedbysmallpeople wrote: »

I just wanted to add in here that even if your kids do get it it's not necessarily "out of the way" as my DH and all his siblings have had chicken pox at least twice each (and they've had it badly each time too- alot of people assume it must have been a really mild dose the first time to get it a second but not so)

me and my kids have all done that too.!:)

Cissi

I was tempted to do it last winter, when my 2.5-year-old's friend had to cancel a long awaited playdate because he had chickenpox. It was going around everywhere, and I figured it would have been good to get it out of the way (and DS seemed sure to catch it at preschool sooner or later anyway). BUT we also have a baby, who was only a couple of months old at the time, and there was of course no way I'd intentionally expose him to anything.

Incidentally, it's gone around a couple of times since then, and DS still hasn't caught it, even though he's definitely been directly exposed several times (unintentionally)

When it comes to the crunch, I probably wouldn't do it. Complications are really rare, but what IF your child was the one statistic where something happened, and you knew that you'd exposed him deliberately...

pboae

I'd have thought the only people who could you advise you in this is your GP/HV/ etc, Chicken Pox can be very serious, whatever your age.

wendym wrote: »

If you decide to expose him and he gets it, remember he could trigger shingles in someone else, before he shows spots. It has a particularly long incubation period.

Chicken Pox can't trigger shingles, but someone with a Shingles outbreak can infect someone else with Chicken Pox.