Sweet Mother of God, I'm on Fire!

[brigden]

its the same, its just that children's immune systems are far more robust than adult's.

Wrong. Children and the elderly have weaker immune systems than adults.

 

[tcsenter]

I think the reason chicken pox is a common thing that everyone has to get is because people believe that's the way it has to be, so they stick 4 healthy kids in a room with a stick one to make them all sick. If HIV was thought of as normal, everyone would have it too.

For one, chicken pox is highly communicable. It can be passed from virus shedding in sloughed skin cells. That kind of communicability pretty much means it will spread commonly throughout a population.

Second, as the risks of any serious complications relating to chicken pox is extremely low in children, while being significantly higher if primary chicken pox is contracted after adolescence, it only makes sense to encourage immunity to be acquired during childhood rather than adulthood. Primary chicken pox can also be contracted from an adult with active shingles lesions by those with no immunity to chicken pox, be they adult or children.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

I think the reason chicken pox is a common thing that everyone has to get is because people believe that's the way it has to be, so they stick 4 healthy kids in a room with a stick one to make them all sick. If HIV was thought of as normal, everyone would have it too.

For one, chicken pox is highly communicable. It can be passed from virus shedding in sloughed skin cells. That kind of communicability pretty much means it will spread commonly throughout a population.

Second, as the risks of any serious complications relating to chicken pox is extremely low in children, while being significantly higher if primary chicken pox is contracted after adolescence, it only makes sense to encourage immunity to be acquired during childhood rather than adulthood. Primary chicken pox can also be contracted from an adult with active shingles lesions by those with no immunity to chicken pox, be they adult or children.

according to webmd, this isn't the best thing to do anymore. With the vaccine, there is no real reason to expose children to it uneccessarily. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/44/1739_50887.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}

 

[guyver01]

dammit what a misleading title. :|


i was expecting to come in here and hear about how you spontaneously combusted, and are now trying to find information on the internet how to extinguish the flames, and the first thing you did was post here for help.

what a letdown 😉

😀

 

[Spac3d]

How did you get chicken pox? Were you playing around with little kids?:Q

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
How did you get chicken pox? Were you playing around with little kids?:Q

or choking a chicken?? :Q

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: guyver01
dammit what a misleading title. :|


i was expecting to come in here and hear about how you spontaneously combusted, and are now trying to find information on the internet how to extinguish the flames, and the first thing you did was post here for help.

what a letdown 😉

😀

when I posted the thread, that's how I felt. and still feel on my, uh sac. tmi I know, but it's the truth. The rest of my body has gone down to embers, not as fully engulfed anymore.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
How did you get chicken pox? Were you playing around with little kids?:Q

like I said in my first post, that's the most troubling part, that I have no idea how I got it. It has a 7-21 day incubation period. I think I got it at work. I work with alot of people who have kids from newborn to 10 yrs old. I think I got it from one of the parents. I do user support, so I'm always at peoples desks.

 

[MazerRackham]

Originally posted by: guyver01
dammit what a misleading title. :|


i was expecting to come in here and hear about how you spontaneously combusted, and are now trying to find information on the internet how to extinguish the flames, and the first thing you did was post here for help.

what a letdown 😉

😀

LOL! 🙂 Have you seen those shows on TV where "experts" try and explain why, for certain deaths, it could have been nothing but spontaneous combustion? LOL! 🙂

 

[MaxDepth]

I had to revive this thread to add this from David letterman, who was out sick two weeks ago because he, too, had shingles.


From the embedded office of Late Night



Top Ten Good Things About Having Shingles

10. There's nothing good about the ****ing shingles. The ****suckers are so ***damn painful, every minute you pray some giant son-of-a-bitch will shove a red-hot poker up your ***.

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btw, how are your's, The Dancing Peacock

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
I had to revive this thread to add this from David letterman, who was out sick two weeks ago because he, too, had shingles.


From the embedded office of Late Night



Top Ten Good Things About Having Shingles

10. There's nothing good about the ****ing shingles. The ****suckers are so ***damn painful, every minute you pray some giant son-of-a-bitch will shove a red-hot poker up your ***.

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btw, how are your's, The Dancing Peacock

LOLOL

 

[n0cmonkey]

I got them twice when I was a kid. I was extra special! 😛

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

I didn't realize he was out with shingles. It sucks. The chicken pox virus will sit in your nerve cells, and if it get's reactivated you get shingles.

Mine blew. I'm all scabby now and back at work, out for 2 weeks exactly. I was scabbed over pretty much on Tuesday, but stayed home till Friday just to make sure I was really done, plus to have some time for the scabs to fall off my face. People at work freaked out when the HR guy sent mail out saying I was sick, so I didn't want to come in with all these things all over my face. I still have about 20 of them on my face, but they are dark scabs and look like moles. I haven't shaved in two weeks. I was able to shave enough to just look like I have a full beard all trimmed. Not so bad, I haven't done sported a full beard in a long time. I've got a cool boss, and he was okay with me being out for so long, really understanding.

The ones on my chest and back are kind of nasty because of the sheer number of them. They feel wierd when I sleep too, all these hard little things on my back, kind of annoying.

But I'm pretty happy to be fine now. I left my house for the first time in 2 weeks last night. I was going stir crazy being at home for so long.

Isla, how was your son's case?