Anyone's kid not had chickenpox?

[Silverchalk46]

My son is 10 and never had chicken pox, is this normal. He's been exposed to it quite a few times but never been ill with it.

Personsally I’d look at getting them the vaccine, a friends DS (year 6) has just got chicken pox for the first time and it’s horrendous, he will scar so badly due to how extreme it is . Wouldn’t risk it!

My 17yo girl. She's up to date on her jabs though.

Mine have all had it accept dd4 and I decided to give her the Cp jab because her skin scars easily.

My daughter was 8 when she got it. She was a few months away from me booking her in to get the vaccine. I said if she never got them 3 months before our holiday I'd get the vaccine as my nephew had them while on holiday, when he was 11 and it was awful for him. He was nearly in hospital with them.

I have two Dads. One got chickenpox as a toddler and was really bad, absolutely smothered. Despite being in close proximity, hugging etc, my elder DD never caught it. She's 25 now.

Mine are young and haven’t had it. I keep thinking about getting them vaccinated as I know it can be really nasty.

DS got it at 3 but so mildly I'm not sure he's now immune. DD didn't pick it up from him at the time which was a bit annoying. They're now 6 and 7 so I might think about the jab.

I am 28 and never had it!

Get the vaccine asap!

I'm the opposite I've had it multiple times and DS seems to take after me he's had it twice already and is only 4.

My sister didn't get It until 16 when she became immune compromised. She was off school for 6 weeks and missed some of her practical exams for her GCSEs. She had a really hard time with it with spots in her eyes and down her throat. She had been around children all the way through her childhood with chicken pox and never caught it. She started with abdominal pains at 15 which turned out to be gallstones but took nearly 3 years to get diagnosed. In the time she had the flu, glandular fever, tonsillitis so bad she was in needed iv antibiotics, chicken pox and every bug going she missed a lot of her gcse

I would look into the vaccine

I’ve had it twice, my 3 year olds had it twice, and my other 2 had it, all 3 at the same time weeks before my wedding (all of them are covered in healing spots in the photos!!), my now husband got it for the first time at the age of 25 and it was by far the worst I have ever seen him, him saying it felt like it was the end (very dramatic!!) but I have heard from a few people about the vaccine which may be a good idea if he’s getting older and not catching them!

My husband had it recently as MIL had failed to mention that he hadn't had it as a child. It was horrendous. In bed for a week, off work for nearly 3 weeks. He has a lot of scarring on his face that will probably never completely heal. I urge anyone that didn't have it as a young child to get the jab!

Is it possible to get the jab. Seen on the NHS website that it's not always offered unless under special circumstances, my kid doesn't meet those circumstances.

You can get it from a pharmacist. Got my DD immunised for it, £140 for two jabs, 4 weeks apart.

That was in Boots.

Pay for the vaccine if you can

I caught it at 20. I had spots in my eyes, my nose and at the entrance to my vagina. I had to take a jug with me to pour water over myself whenever I peed. Apart from midway through covid, this was the only illness that ever made me cry. DS has had it, I’d have paid to vaccinate him, if he hadn’t.

You’ll almost certainly have to pay, as above its approx £140. Worth every penny in my view. There was a shortage for a while, I had to drive quite a distance to get my daughter done but that was over a year ago so it may be better now.

I paid to get my daughter the vaccine as my son had a hard time of it with chicken pox as did i when I was little and according to mil so did DH. It was around £140 in Superdrug, carried out by a nurse.

We had our kids vaccinated, at ten I’d book him in as it can be worse when you are older. But perhaps he had it, had no spots and you mistook it for just a general virus? It can be very mild in some kids. Sadly for us that wasn’t the case with a family members son, who developed a secondary infection that led to swelling of the brain and he suffered some brain damage.a few years on and he’s back to normal, he remains behind at school but has recovered really well and you’d never know to talk to him. But it can cause real issues so personally we picked vaccination.

Mine haven’t but I chose to vaccinate them. Apparently it was effective.

I never had it as a child but caught it as an adult and it was very mild for me, a handful of spots and felt fine. I only knew it was cp because I'd been with my niece who was contagious and dr confirmed but it was no big deal. So the idea it's always worse when you're older isn't true. When dd was 8 she had a handful of spots that looked like cp but only on her scalp that the dr said it may or may not be cp - couldn't because - but otherwise she hasn't had it and is now 16.

DS still hadn't caught it by the time he was 11. We paid for the vaccination.

A friend caught it as an adult and died from complications.

I'm 36 and haven't had it. Ds caught it at 3 and despite having around 1000 spots, didn't suffer too badly, and no scars. Dd was 2 weeks old at the time, but neither of us caught it, despite bed sharing. Presumably I have immunity.

You should absolutely get him the jab asap.
It's available at boots/superdrug in two doses £70 each.
I had my son vaccinated when he hadn't caught it by 7.
A friend of mine caught it at secondary school aged around 13. The virus traveled to her brain and she was in intensive care for weeks. It can be much more serious in teens and adults. Please don't risk your son catching it