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If you or your child have never had the chicken pox before I recommend getting the vaccination. I have watched many friends suffer through fevers, aches and pains, headaches and itching and oozing blisters that are associated with the chicken pox. I personally received the chicken pox vaccine and avoided these discomforts. Here are a few reasons why I recommend vaccinating yourself and your family.
Economic Reasons
If you or your child contracts the chicken box it is overall much more expensive than paying for the vaccination. When you factor in the costs of the chicken pox, including missing school, work, childcare, purchasing antihistamines and acetaminophen, lotions and ingredients for soothing oatmeal baths, having the disease is much more expensive than avoiding it.
Minimal Risk
The possible side effects associated with the chicken pox vaccine are minimal and can be taken care of with a simple dose of household acetaminophen and antihistamine. Possible side effects include redness around the area where the vaccine was given and stiffness and soreness around the injection site. Rarely, some people may develop a mild rash around where the injection site as well.
Avoid Serious Sickness
If you are vaccinated you most likely will avoid chicken pox completely. The vaccine allows you to avoid the uncomfortable 9-21 days of oozing, itching blisters, high fever and headaches. You avoid the possibility of scars and rare flesh-eating bacterial infections. Chicken pox can be deadly and you completely reduce this risk when vaccinated.
There is a very small percentage of vaccinated people who have been known to still develop a small case of the chicken pox. The chicken pox vaccine lowers the intensity of the virus’ affects and symptoms are extremely mild with little to no blisters or lesions, a lower fever, no complications and very quick recovery.
The chicken pox vaccination also helps protect against the related disease of shingles. Shingles forms when the chicken pox virus reactivates in the blood stream later in life. Vaccinated people are less prone to develop shingles and if they do, it is an extremely mild case.
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