A chickenpox party? Doctors say it's a bad idea

Mpls (red)Star Tribune /AP ^ | 4/802

[the_doc]

I am not aware of any booster protocol.

[carmody]

She urges all parents to take advantage of the vaccine. Most of her patients heed her advice, she said, but a few resist. ..."They think, 'The fewer vaccines the better.' This one seems optional to them."

In fact, when the vaccine first arrived on the scene, our pediatrician offered it to us AS AN OPTION. It was offered especially for WORKING MOMS who couldn't afford to take time off of work to stay home with a quarantined child. Only in the last few years has chicken pox become "dangerous".

[RnMomof7]

Smart thinking ..but we need to tell them to read the label on the yogurt..it has to have natural cultures..which BTW work on tampons for yeast infections I am told by some ladies..(sorry guys)

[luckystarmom]

I got my youngest son the vaccine when I was pregnant with his twin sisters because he had to go into daycare. I was afraid he'd come home with it and expose his baby sisters to it.

I was very glad I did get him the vaccine because his sisters got RSV (respiratory synctial virus) when they were 6 weeks old. They almost died from that, and the meds they were on would have made chickenpox deadly.

I don't think the chickenpox vaccine should be mandatory for school, but I am very thankful that it was available for my kids.

Also, for all of those wondering about shingles, I know of several people that have had shingles in their adult life, and it doesn't sound like fun. It sounds a lot worse than chicken pox.

[weegee]

"Doctors say that serious reactions are rare." The article cites statistics for people who have complications from the disease (not tying it to percentage of total infected) and they can't dig up numbers on bad effects from the vaccine???

Controlled exposure helps you to prepare for a "bad" situation (you know it's coming).

Do the children who've been exposed get exempted from the vaccination? Who's getting $$$ from these vaccinations?

Is early childhood exposure "bad" because it reduces the number of children that must still submit to the shots?

Medical science is a great thing but there are people that believe everything a doctor does is in the best interest of the patient.

[weegee]

These days some militant lesbian busybody would turn the mom in for child abuse.

Speaking of militant lesbian busybodies and child abuse:

Lesbians: We Made Our Baby Deaf on Purpose

[SauronOfMordor]

The complications of vaccines is all over the internet

See Cancer linked to vaccine fouled by monkey virus Polio inoculation for a relevant thread

[Diddle E. Squat]

What does the yeast and yogurt do(I'm not yet very familiar with such remedies), does it boost the immune system? I beleive Lysine is supposed to be good for that(or at least fighting off cold sores!)

[Diddle E. Squat]

Amen on that being child abuse? Do you listen to Greg Knapp on 570am in Dallas? He's been hammering that story pretty hard for a week now.

[FITZ]

They help replace the bacteria until the normal flora move back in. Yogurt (natural kinds) contain a live bacteria that can live inside the intestines but won't harm you and baking yeast will also temporarily live in or on the body ---keeping out pathogenic yeasts. Often when someone comes off antibiotics, because they lack the protection of "normal flora", they get another infection right away.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for the info, I'll have to remember that.