[SarahW]

One advantage of controlled exposure to chickenpox: The severity of the illness can be greatly reduced with a prescription for acyclovir - and if you can tell your ped that your childs fever is probably the result of varicella exposure, you can get the RX and have it on hand to reduce the number of pock-marks.

[Mfkmmof4]

My children's doctor does NOT recommend the vaccine and so my 5 year old got the pox on his own and I am glad about that. Our kids have become pin cushions with the number of vaccines they get.