Chicken pox vaccine?

[Elisabeth3468]

I'm just wondering if it's worth getting?
2 year old not yet had chicken pox. I know they can be really nasty and currently thinking about booking my son in to get the vaccine.
Opinions?
Anyone else's child had it?
Please no complete anti vax comments. My little boy has had all the recommended vaccines so far.

Yep, it's 1 a month minimum gap between MMR and chicken pox, although you can also have them done on the same day.

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Just a quick question on boosters for this. I’ve had both my DS5 and DS6 vaccinated for chicken pox around a year ago, as some of our friends children had become very ill with it.
However I was discussing with a friend originally from Guatemala who was vaccinated for chicken pox as a child there routinely during the 1980s - but then still caught it as an older teenager and suffered awfully with it and was covered in itchy spots. I hadn’t realised this was possible if you’ve had the vax. Do I need to boost my children at a certain age or ensure my children are aware they need boosters as adults? Does anyone know when that would that be recommended?

@Ohdear7 Did your children have two vaccinations a few weeks apart? If so they should be covered. As yet there's no evidence that a booster is needed, although we were advised to check research when our son is in his late teens (currently he's 5) to see if he needs a booster before he leaves our care. That's only because the vaccine hasn't been around for long enough (I think 35ish years) to know how effective it is in older people.

Also vaccinations are never 100% effective. Chicken pox is a very effective vaccine but it's never going to prevent all infections completely. It is also a virus that can reinfect - I have a friend with an auto-immune condition who has had it three times. So perhaps that's a factor as well.

Yes we got our two done at Superdrug.

I think it’s 30 days in most places, not 3 months. We got ours done at 13 and 14 months. First dose was just over 30 days after the MMR.

I got it for my eldest, no side effects or issues. Covid delayed us getting the jab for the youngest, then she caught it just after returning to nursery, before we'd got a new jab booked. No long term effects, but we had an awful few weeks and she's been left with a few scars.