Over-vaccination of infant

[ashkyla]

Before giving your children the chickenpox vaccine, I'd do a lot of research. When my children were younger, they are now 13 and 16, our Dr. said that the vaccine is only good for about 30 years...meaning that they would get chickenpox as an adult. He advised against it.

That's the main reason I'm not allowing it. Children react and recover better from chickenpox than adults do.

I've heard of rare cases where children had serious complications from chickenpox, even death, but given that my daughter is extremely healthy (she was nursed until she got teeth and wouldn't stop biting), and no one in our family has ever had problems with chickenpox (other than the usual itching and general discomfort), I think she's safer to get it and get over it than to pump her full of the vaccine and accompanying preservatives, and risk the possibility of God only knows what complications.

(She has had reactions to vaccinations before, back when they were giving her so many no one had any idea what she might be reacting to.)

 

[ablessin]

If an adult male has never had the chickenpox as a child, and is exposed to them as an adult, it can be VERY bad, plus it chickenpox can make an adult male sterile.

When my son was about a year old, he was exposed to chickenpox. Our pediatrian (and my ex's pcp) advised that he steer clear of our son because my ex had never had the chickenpox as a child. We were told unless we didn't want more kids, the 2 be apart for a few days.

Fortunately, my son never got them, and shortly after the exposure, he got the varicella vaccine.

All immunizations are probably not necessary (ie :flu) but I would encourage parents to get the dtp, mmr - those are common and safe.

I agree with the person who said about the flu shot. Everyone is all up in arms about getting it early. It's funny, the past 2 years (at least in NYS) there was a "shortage" and then all of a sudden in like late January, there was this huge surplus and doctors were practically recruiting patients to get it!! Whatever, I have personally never had the flu shot, or the flu. I'll take my chances.