Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Ok, as an adult, I would have to contract chicken pox before I could contract shingles. Chances are I will contract neither, but if I do, I will definately treat with homeopathy...that's for sure. Thanks, Anita LJL <laura6307@...> wrote: You will first get chicken pox, which for an adult, can be bad. The only way to prevent this (according to the hype I am beginning to read) is to constantly get the chicken pox vaccine (which honestly have not proven to be effective and as far as I know, not licensed in adults (yet)). I would look up how to help your body with homeopathy and heavy doses of Vitamin C so that if you ever do get chicken pox you will know how to combat it. After that, you will want to try and expose yourself to chicken pox all the time to keep your immunity up so your body won't relapse (shingles). > As I had mentioned earlier, I think that the neighbor's child who has chicken pox has been around the past few days. I wanted to try to expose my toddler girl but the neighbor is hesitant. Our other neighbor just finished a round of very painful shingles and she said that she could not knowingly expose my children to something that could eventually cause them to have shingles. Plus, the lady she works with has horrible chicken pox scars on her face. > > I asked her if she knows of anybody else who has had shingles. Not that it can't happen - it does - but it would not change my decision about my children getting full immunity verses a shot full of chemicals and dead baby cells. > > Sigh. We'll see if she's already been exposed enough. > > We're all kind of sicky sick here today anyway, so it's probably best not to add insult to injury at the moment. > > Sheri B. > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with . > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 I'm sure I have been exposed to chicken pox in my younger days and by vaccinated children via shedding more currently; I just never contracted it. I may very well be exposed again someday to a full blown case of it and still not contract it. My unvaccinated son was recently exposed to a woman infected with chicken pox who works in the occupational therapy room at his school, and he was unaffected. Sometimes I think we are all prone to getting different things or being suceptible to them by our individual natural make-up or constitution, not necessarily by our health condition at the time of exposure. Even though these types of illnesses are very good for the immune system, I don't think they are always necessary as there are plenty of other opportunities to strengthen the immune system and *clean house* as the practitioners of *Natural Hygiene* would say. I believe my body can continue to be strong and go through a healthy life without ever getting the chicken pox whether or not I have been exposed or re-exposed to it. Again, just speculating. ;~) Anita LJL <laura6307@...> wrote: It's reexposure to chicken pox that keeps your body strong and the virus in check in your body. Shingles used to be a problem for very old and/or immunosuppressed people. By not getting exposed, your body loses immunity and now young and pretty healthy adults are getting shingles. http://www.mercola.com/2002/may/29/chickenpox_vaccine.htm > > I thought if you get CP as a child you are less likely to get a bad case of > shingles as an adult, if at all? > C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Exactly . My 13 year old son had shingles last summer. We treated homeopathically, and he did very well. He had chicken pox when he was 2. And of course now that there is an explosion of shingles in young people and old alike, they're working on a shingles vaccine!! Kay Re: Neighbor hesitant to come near us with Chicken Pox It's reexposure to chicken pox that keeps your body strong and the virus in check in your body. Shingles used to be a problem for very old and/or immunosuppressed people. By not getting exposed, your body loses immunity and now young and pretty healthy adults are getting shingles. http://www.mercola.com/2002/may/29/chickenpox_vaccine.htm > > I thought if you get CP as a child you are less likely to get a bad case of > shingles as an adult, if at all? > C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Hi Kay, Do you think the shingles explosion in children has anything to do with chicken pox vaccines, in that a child who receives the cp vax who already had a case of it unknowingly is now prone to getting the shingles which today I learned is the next step? Sorry for the run on sentence. Anita KPhilpot <KPhilpot@...> wrote: Exactly . My 13 year old son had shingles last summer. We treated homeopathically, and he did very well. He had chicken pox when he was 2. And of course now that there is an explosion of shingles in young people and old alike, they're working on a shingles vaccine!! Kay Re: Neighbor hesitant to come near us with Chicken Pox It's reexposure to chicken pox that keeps your body strong and the virus in check in your body. Shingles used to be a problem for very old and/or immunosuppressed people. By not getting exposed, your body loses immunity and now young and pretty healthy adults are getting shingles. http://www.mercola.com/2002/may/29/chickenpox_vaccine.htm > > I thought if you get CP as a child you are less likely to get a bad case of > shingles as an adult, if at all? > C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Thanks for the info kay. :~) Anita KPhilpot <KPhilpot@...> wrote: Yes, Anita, I do. I've read some articles on that as well. Here are a couple: http://www.whale.to/a/chick.html http://www.whale.to/a/ata.html Apparently periodic exposure to children with chicken pox acts as a natural booster against the disease. But now that wild chicken pox is becoming more and more rare, that exposure is declining, too, leaving adults AND children more susceptible to shingles. Kay --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 jackie, i think anita was referring to shingles having been extremely rare in children pre varicella vax. :-) claudia --- jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: > factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this > previously rare > disease among children more common which will > inevitably change > everything. > ___________________ > > Anita, > > Chicken pox in children has never been a rare > disease prior to the > vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. > > Jackie Noel > www.sagaciousairedales.com > www.sagaciousdogcountry.com > > > > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. " Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong " Wilde http://lady-karelia.livejournal.com/ __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 I was talking about the *shingles*. Is that not true? Anita jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this previously rare disease among children more common which will inevitably change everything. ___________________ Anita, Chicken pox in children has never been a rare disease prior to the vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. Jackie Noel www.sagaciousairedales.com www.sagaciousdogcountry.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Thank you dear. :~) Anita <claudiaayaz@...> wrote: jackie, i think anita was referring to shingles having been extremely rare in children pre varicella vax. :-) claudia --- jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: > factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this > previously rare > disease among children more common which will > inevitably change > everything. > ___________________ > > Anita, > > Chicken pox in children has never been a rare > disease prior to the > vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. > > Jackie Noel > www.sagaciousairedales.com > www.sagaciousdogcountry.com > > > > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. " Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong " Wilde http://lady-karelia.livejournal.com/ __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 From what I have read, the rates of shingles have gone up since the creation of the varicella vaccine because people aren't being repeatedly exposed to chicken pox like they used to. -- Sara Proud Mama to Colin 12/07/99 Jack 8/07/02 -------------- Original message -------------- From: Anita Durney <mydurney@...> I was talking about the *shingles*. Is that not true? Anita jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this previously rare disease among children more common which will inevitably change everything. ___________________ Anita, Chicken pox in children has never been a rare disease prior to the vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. Jackie Noel www.sagaciousairedales.com www.sagaciousdogcountry.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Isn't almost every child under sun being exposed to chicken pox through the vaccine and then again through the air by the unavoidable consistent shedding of vaccinated children? If you look at it from that angle, children are being exposed more than ever, just not to the natural wild strain. I don't know, maybe I'm just not getting it...but not for lack of trying. ;~) Either way, it's a bad news situation because of the cp vaccine that is bound to cause more problems than they bargained for or think they have solved. The good news for them will be the need to add a shingles vaccine to the already overloaded, unnecessary vaccine schedule...and on and on we go. Anita SaraShaughnessy@... wrote: From what I have read, the rates of shingles have gone up since the creation of the varicella vaccine because people aren't being repeatedly exposed to chicken pox like they used to. -- Sara Proud Mama to Colin 12/07/99 Jack 8/07/02 -------------- Original message -------------- From: Anita Durney <mydurney@...> I was talking about the *shingles*. Is that not true? Anita jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this previously rare disease among children more common which will inevitably change everything. ___________________ Anita, Chicken pox in children has never been a rare disease prior to the vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. Jackie Noel www.sagaciousairedales.com www.sagaciousdogcountry.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Now, I could be wrong (it has happened once or twice but when a virus is shed from someone from a vaccine, isn't it only spread through direct contact? As in touching something that a vaccinated child touched after they may have come into contact with their feces? I would think that the only way that it would be spread through the air would be if the vaccinated child actually came down with a case of chicken pox. So many variables! Why couldn't the darn vaccine manufacturers just leave at least chicken pox alone??!!?? -- Sara Proud Mama to Colin 12/07/99 Jack 8/07/02 -------------- Original message -------------- From: Anita Durney <mydurney@...> Isn't almost every child under sun being exposed to chicken pox through the vaccine and then again through the air by the unavoidable consistent shedding of vaccinated children? If you look at it from that angle, children are being exposed more than ever, just not to the natural wild strain. I don't know, maybe I'm just not getting it...but not for lack of trying. ;~) Either way, it's a bad news situation because of the cp vaccine that is bound to cause more problems than they bargained for or think they have solved. The good news for them will be the need to add a shingles vaccine to the already overloaded, unnecessary vaccine schedule...and on and on we go. Anita SaraShaughnessy@... wrote: From what I have read, the rates of shingles have gone up since the creation of the varicella vaccine because people aren't being repeatedly exposed to chicken pox like they used to. -- Sara Proud Mama to Colin 12/07/99 Jack 8/07/02 -------------- Original message -------------- From: Anita Durney <mydurney@...> I was talking about the *shingles*. Is that not true? Anita jnoelsagacious <jnoelsagacious@...> wrote: factor in.The chicken pox vaccine has made this previously rare disease among children more common which will inevitably change everything. ___________________ Anita, Chicken pox in children has never been a rare disease prior to the vaccine. I think you're mixing your thoughts. Jackie Noel www.sagaciousairedales.com www.sagaciousdogcountry.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 With the exception of handling fecal matter and such, I think the principles of shedding remain largely unknown. Anita SaraShaughnessy@... wrote: Now, I could be wrong (it has happened once or twice but when a virus is shed from someone from a vaccine, isn't it only spread through direct contact? As in touching something that a vaccinated child touched after they may have come into contact with their feces? I would think that the only way that it would be spread through the air would be if the vaccinated child actually came down with a case of chicken pox. So many variables! Why couldn't the darn vaccine manufacturers just leave at least chicken pox alone??!!?? -- Sara Proud Mama to Colin 12/07/99 Jack 8/07/02 --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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