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The chickenpox vaccine is relatively recent, and chickenpox parties were a good way to inoculate children who get only mild symptoms and very little danger from the disease compared to adults.
Nowadays, vaccines are 100% the best defense.
Measles is so much worse and it has never been a good idea to purposely subject yourself to that.
Yea I distinctly remember getting an Aveeno bath for it, and families were also having their other children around each other with chickenpox.
I know, that's what my parents did and I needed shingles vaccine.
I'm happy the vaccine is available for my kids and they don't have to worry about shingles when they are older.
The shingles vaccine for adults originally using a larger dose of the attenuated virus of the childhood vax. But now they have a new one that doesn't use the virus at all, it's called shingrx. It's not advisable to get shingrx or the original shingles vax if your under 50
Yep, the vaccine is recent enough that if you were born in the 90s or before, the vaccine wasn't available when you were of the right age to get it. I didn't even know we had a vaccine until probably 5 years ago.
Same, I only found out through the shingles sub I regularly visit, because I had shingles before 20
Was still pretty dumb, because now they have shingles for the rest of their lives. Just laying in wait for the right moment to strike lol
Well, the thing is that if you get chickenpox was older person it is much more serious, and there is shingles vaccine too.
I'm actually fine that my parents did it, it seems like there's upper age for the vaccine so I wouldn't be eligible, so it was either that or trying to be lucky and not catching it while being older.
Chpx vaccine only came out in 1995. Anyone before that had the virus already.
There was not a shingles vaccine back when "chicken pox parties" were a thing