Re: chicken pox and mumps
[email protected]
In a message dated 11/1/2002 12:38:04 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
I had chicken pox at age 27 and it was kind of like the flu only itchy and
not so bad. The itching wasn't as bad as poison oak and I kept thinking,
"Thank god I didn't have this as a kid because it would be sooooo hard not to
scratch."
My husband had mumps in his early thirties and we were a little panicked
since we'd neglected to have kids so far! But when we looked into it we
learned that only 10% of adult male mumps cases have testiculur involvement
and of those only 10% lead to sterility, and then just on one side almost
always.
Pam T. who has two kids now who are vaccinated except for chicken pox and
they already had that
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[email protected] writes:
> > chicken pox caught in adulthood could be bad. That's really the only one Iadults...
> > worry about.
>
> >I'm in the same situation with Lars, and the one I worry about is mumps
>
> Just so folks know it's not always so terrible to have these things as
I had chicken pox at age 27 and it was kind of like the flu only itchy and
not so bad. The itching wasn't as bad as poison oak and I kept thinking,
"Thank god I didn't have this as a kid because it would be sooooo hard not to
scratch."
My husband had mumps in his early thirties and we were a little panicked
since we'd neglected to have kids so far! But when we looked into it we
learned that only 10% of adult male mumps cases have testiculur involvement
and of those only 10% lead to sterility, and then just on one side almost
always.
Pam T. who has two kids now who are vaccinated except for chicken pox and
they already had that
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