Minnesota Medical Association issues advisory on chickenpox parties
December 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm in West Central Tribune
WILLMAR The Minnesota Medical Association issued a strongly worded statement this week about “chickenpox parties,” or playdates organized by parents to purposely expose their children to chickenpox in hopes of acquiring “natural” immunity by getting the disease.
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I suspect that social media has not increased “chicken pox parties”, but has instead made it easier to identify the occurrences. Let’s not make this out to be something it’s not.
When my kids were younger this is exactly how 2 of them got chicken pox… from the children they were around all the time. We didn’t make some “party occasion” out of it – but my friends and I knew that the pox would spread between our children, and yes, we allowed that to happen. Our children weren’t babies anymore… but weren’t quite school-age yet. We got those chicken pox out of the way before our kids hit school – when we were stay-at-home moms and could be with our kids as they went thru it.
My third child was vaccinated against chicken pox – and he got chicken pox the old fashioned way anyway; from another child in school. His strain was far worse than the strain my older two had years earlier.
So – what conclusions should I be drawing from that?
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