Best age to get chicken pox

I had chicken pox as a child and got shingles at when my daughter was and my son was 4. He was vaccinated and did not get sick, but my daughter got chicken pox from me having shingles (ramsay hunt syndrome). There is also a chance they will get chicken pox again. DD had it at age and ds had it at 5½ months.

He went on to get shingles at age whixh wasnt nice (for me as well as him!). If an adult gets chicken pox it can be 100x worse than it is for a child and can be very dangerous.

So I do understand why people would rather have their child have it young rather than when they are adults. It is really NEVER a good age to get chicken pox (especially intentionally!). I think there is a booster requirement between 4-years. According to many studies that an infected person can spread chicken pox days before and days after the rashes occur due to chickenpox. The best way to prevent the spread of the virus is to get the varicella vaccine.

You do not need to get the chickenpox vaccine if you have evidence of immunity against the disease. Some people should not get chickenpox vaccine or they should wait. People should not get chickenpox vaccine if they have ever had a life-threatening allergic reaction to a previous dose of chickenpox vaccine or any ingredient of the vaccine.

After you get the chicken pox disease then still some of the varicella virus remains in your cells of nerve and after a long time of many years the virus has the ability of getting reactivate and gets resurface as of the shingles which a very painful band of blisters which have a short life. The history of chickenpox in some regards. Adults with chickenpox should stay off work until all the spots have crusted over. Chicken Pox Vaccine Age. But kids who get chicken pox after being vaccinated will have milder symptoms, fewer blisters, a lower fever, and a quicker recovery.

The vaccine may help protect your child from a bad case of shingles later in life. This disease is related to chicken pox , and it affects about million adults in America every year. A study of more than 500. In preschool and in kindergarten is when the highest incidents of chicken pox infections occur. This is when children are between 3-years old.

If she ends up with chicken pox , the best thing you can do for your baby is not worry. If she starts acting increasingly distressed or in pain, then call the doctor for an appointment to ease your concerns. Most children have chickenpox at some stage. Most commonly, children get chickenpox before the age of years. The immune system makes proteins called antibodies during the infection.

These fight the virus and then provide lifelong protection against it (immunity). Any age you can contact chicken pox.

But the chances of complicated life threatening infections are less in children less than years. Adults have more complicated infection if they are not immunized or previously infected. Good age for chicken pox ? I was wondering what a good age for exposing kids to chicken pox is.