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Faunsdale, AL | A case of chicken pox, however mild or severe, doesn’t matter, means you will carry the Herpes varicella-zoster virus for life. Typically your immune system will keep it tamped down until you age a bit, though as you can see just from the responses on here, there’s no guarantee of that. For any of several reasons, if your immune system weakens, the virus reactivates in the nerves and then the body revs up to attack it, causing the painful eruptions along the course of the nerves on the body and sometimes face and even the eye.
This rite of passage for everyone that has ever had chicken pox and lives long enough to get older, plus the fever, discomfort and potential of scarring that children go through when they get Chicken pox is reason enough to vaccinate children before they are ever exposed to prevent chicken pox entirely and to revaccinate adults over 60 years of age who almost certainly had chicken pox at some point in their life.
My mother contracted it when she was over 30 and my older brothers and sisters brought it home from school. She had recently given birth to my next older sister and both of them had rip roaring cases. Before the childhood vaccination was available, almost everyone got infected at some point in life.
Edited by ccjersey 5/26/2025 10:04
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