Would you give your child a chickenpox lolly?

[Dark Midnight]

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I think that I can safely say no to this one!

[Etheric1]

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I think that I can safely say no to this one!

Wow. We've reached yet another new low in our society...

[Jubes]

Wow. We've reached yet another new low in our society...

ok first of all "licking the lollipop" won't give anyone chickenpox, the virus has to be inhaled! If they really wanted to give their kids chickenpox and actually did their homework they would know it's better to get a few kids that still have unpopped blisters in a room with kids who are not infected that would be way easier and not so freaking GROSS!!!!! That being said when my oldest came home from school with them I didn't try to keep her form the other 2 if they got them they got them I wasn't overly worried about it, better to get it done and over with while they were young!!!!!

[RandallS]

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I think that I can safely say no to this one!

This is silly. And isn't there a vaccine for chickenpox?

[HeartShadow]

This is silly. And isn't there a vaccine for chickenpox?

Yes, but there's a LOT of backlash against it in the anti-vax crowd - so there's a lot of "it's not that bad a disease, kids should get it naturally, how DARE people make it easier it's a GROWTH EXPERIENCE" etc.

needless to say, swug got vaxed.

[Starglade]

This is silly. And isn't there a vaccine for chickenpox?

There sure is. However, the mania in the anti-vaccination crowd is SO huge, they're going to often-ridiculous lengths to avoid it. ::steps off public-health soapbox::

[Aayden]

I said it on another site and I'll say it again here: No, No, NO! That is just the nastiest thing I've ever heard of. My kids have had there pox vaccine and I'll be damned if I would risk them getting some other disease just to be done with this one!

[Celtag]

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I think that I can safely say no to this one!

This is highly dumb! Parents need to let nature take it's course and stop doing dumb crap like this.

[mandrina]

ok first of all "licking the lollipop" won't give anyone chickenpox, the virus has to be inhaled! If they really wanted to give their kids chickenpox and actually did their homework they would know it's better to get a few kids that still have unpopped blisters in a room with kids who are not infected that would be way easier and not so freaking GROSS!!!!! That being said when my oldest came home from school with them I didn't try to keep her form the other 2 if they got them they got them I wasn't overly worried about it, better to get it done and over with while they were young!!!!!

That's the way we used to do it, Rubella sleepovers, pox parties. The lollipops just sound gross too.

My older two got the pox, cause my doc at the time in the mid 1990's said that the vaccine was less than 75% effective, the younger two got the vaccine in the early 2000's.

[Owl]

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I think that I can safely say no to this one!

I couldn't have gotten my daughter to do this anyway - she wouldn't even let her crayons be touched by the other kids in kindergarten and the early primary grades because some of them put them in their mouths etc.

My kids were good friends with the children of a friend of mine. When one got chicken pox, we made sure they were all together so they all got it. It was summer, and between the 4 adults we just passed them back and forth until the pox was done and they could go back to daycare.