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Chicken Pox x 3

  • 28-02-2009 7:23pm
    #1
    Enii
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    Anyone hear of anyone having the chicken pox 3 times.

    I have just recently had it for the 3rd time!!!!


    Doctor reckons that I am not getting a severe enough case to provide me with immunity.


Comments

  • #2
    autograph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭autograph


    Thought this wasn't possible. Always a first time for everything.


  • #3
    taram
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    One of my cousins got chicken pox 3 times ( and mumps 3 times too, even though she was given 3 doses of the MMR) so it's possible, though unusual.


  • #4
    samson09
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    taram wrote: »
    One of my cousins got chicken pox 3 times ( and mumps 3 times too, even though she was given 3 doses of the MMR) so it's possible, though unusual.

    3 doses of MMR and still got mumps 3 times? Well at least those vaccines were approved through the use of scientifically rigourous clinical trials. Pfffffffff.


  • #5
    Rayne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Rayne


    Yup, recently got my first dose of chicky pox... Was told it may not be my last!!! :eek:
    I heard 3 is maximum!! Poor thing, I don't envy you! :(


  • #6
    taram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    samson09 wrote: »
    3 doses of MMR and still got mumps 3 times? Well at least those vaccines were approved through the use of scientifically rigourous clinical trials. Pfffffffff.
    You don't seem to understand how science works, her body must have just not developed enough antibodies, or kept enough over time, vaccines don't stay in our bodies forever, you need boosters. On the flip side, a girl in the lab next to me got mumps last year, and out of the lab group, only one person had any sort of mump-related symptoms, this is a sealed lab, so if they hadn't been vaccinated, they'd have all been sick. 20 people didn't all magically avoided mumps through luck, it was vaccines.


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  • #7
    nesf
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    Got chicken pox twice here. Just one of those things really.


  • #8
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    nesf wrote: »
    Got chicken pox twice here. Just one of those things really.
    +1
    Really sucked the second time as well :(


  • #9
    nesf
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    +1
    Really sucked the second time as well :(

    I remember feeling cheated and betrayed when I got it a second time. Science lied to me!!! :mad:


  • #10
    AtomicHorror
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    samson09 wrote: »
    3 doses of MMR and still got mumps 3 times? Well at least those vaccines were approved through the use of scientifically rigourous clinical trials. Pfffffffff.

    Right... I mean it's not like some people can be immunocompromised or anything. Where are the clinical trials for your wonderful alternative? Oh look, they all, without exception, came up negative. Safe, sure. Effective, no.


  • #11
    KittyeeTrix
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    My son is 8 and he is now this week on his 3rd dose of chickenpox. He first got it when he was 3 but it wasn't too severe, he got it again when he was 4 and again this week.
    He has more spots this time. I researched it on the net and it seems that it does happen to maybe about 13% of people.
    It seems to be that the immune response to the 1st dose of the chickenpox is either not evoked or either it is evoked but is not maintained so you get it again when you are next exposed to it.
    I don't know what it means for my young lad, there seems to be a real possibility that he will be more susceptible to shingles when he is older!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:confused:


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