What is a "Chicken pox party?"?
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Pox Parties are the stupidest trend to come to the suburbs in a long time.\n\nThanks to the alarmist media, a general inability to understand science, and Internet charlatans who tell parents that vaccinations are dangerous for children, suburban moms in the US and Europe are shunning the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine. So instead of inoculating the kids with vaccine, they'd rather go get their kids infected with pox "the old fashioned way." So they round up their kids and take them to an infected kid's house and share drinking cups and come in close contact so all the kids pick up the virus and get sick.\n\nBut parents, this is tantamount to CHILD ABUSE. You have the option of giving the kids a vaccine that at worst produces mild symptoms with maybe two or three lesions, and at best usually results in a life long immunity to the pox with no symptoms EVER. But instead, these medical luddites insist on letting their kids get very sick, be miserable for two weeks, and possible become disfigured from pox scars.\n\nShame on parents who take their kids to pox parties! SHAME!
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All of the above, plus, if you care about your kids friends (and it's okay with their folks) junior should go play with them a few hours so they get it too.  Once you've had it once, it's very rare to get it again, and chicken pox as an adult is a nightmare.  My poor lovely wife got it, and we laughed and we laughed, but it was apparently very serious.\n\nAveeno/oatmeal/calamine all sound like good ideas for the poor thing...\n\ngood luck!
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Do you Pop out at parties? Are you un-poopular? \n\nVeg-a-me-a-viatamin
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Same as Chicken Pox. See it in the picture\n\nhttp://www.irishhealth.com/content/image/24/Image1.jpg
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dude i had a party like that and it was awesome. what you should do is watch a very scary movie. than have like water balloon fights and it is a sleepover so they can mess around with eachother when they are sleeping
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I've been to a tuperware party....is that similiar?
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It doesn't lead to anything, but it's connected with a number of other diseases, most notably shingles. Chicken pox is also known as the third herpes virus. Below I listed a wiki page explaining more about chicken pox. Hope that helps.
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Chickenpox is one of the classic childhood diseases, and one of the most contagious. The affected child or adult may develop hundreds of itchy, fluid-filled blisters that burst and form crusts. Chickenpox is caused by a virus.\n\nThe virus that causes chickenpox is varicella-zoster, a member of the herpesvirus family. The same virus also causes herpes zoster (shingles) in adults.\n\nCauses, incidence, and risk factors    Return to top \n\nIn a typical scenario, a young child is covered in pox and out of school for a week. The first half of the week the child feels miserable from intense itching; the second half from boredom. Since the introduction of the chickenpox vaccine, classic chickenpox is much less common.\n\nChickenpox is extremely contagious, and can be spread by direct contact, droplet transmission, and airborne transmission. Even those with mild illness after the vaccine may be contagious.\n\nWhen someone becomes infected, the pox usually appear 10 to 21 days later. People become contagious 1 to 2 days before breaking out with pox. They remain contagious while uncrusted blisters are present.\n\nOnce you catch chickenpox, the virus usually remains in your body for your lifetime, kept in check by the immune system. About 1 in 10 adults will experience shingles when the virus re-emerges during a period of stress.\n\nMost cases of chickenpox occur in children younger than ten. The disease is usually mild, although serious complications sometimes occur. Adults and older children usually get sicker than younger children do.\n\nChildren under one year of age whose mothers have had chickenpox are not very likely to catch it. If they do, they often have mild cases because they retain partial immunity from their mothers' blood. Children under one year of age whose mothers have not had chickenpox, or whose inborn immunity has already waned, can get severe chickenpox.\n\nThe pox are worse in children who have other skin problems, such as eczema or a recent sunburn.\n\nComplications are more common in those who are immunocompromised from an illness or medicines like chemotherapy. Some of the worst cases of chickenpox have been seen in children who have taken steroids (for example, for asthma) during the incubation period, before they have any symptoms
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What Is Chickenpox?\n\nChickenpox is a rash illness caused by a virus. Once a person is exposed to the virus, it takes between 2 and 3 weeks before the symptoms appear. Chickenpox usually occurs in childhood. Adults who contract chickenpox are usually more ill, especially with pneumonia. Chickenpox is very common and highly contagious. Approximately 3 million cases occur each year in the United States. More than 90% of chickenpox cases occur in children less than 12 years of age.\n\nSymptoms of Chickenpox?\n\nThe symptoms of chickenpox vary from individual to individual. Some people may experience all of these symptoms while others experience one or two. The symptoms are: Mild fever, backache, headache, sore throat, a rash (red spots) and blisters filled with fluid. The fever varies between 101º F to 105º F and returns to normal when the blisters have disappeared.\n\nHow is Chickenpox Transmitted?\n\nChickenpox is transmitted through the air. When a patient with chickenpox coughs or sneezes, they expel tiny droplets that carry the chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster virus, VZV). If a person who has never had chickenpox inhales these particles, the virus enters the lungs and is carried through the blood to the skin where it causes the typical rash of chickenpox. The infected droplets cause an initial infection in the respiratory epithelium. The incubation period (the time between exposure to the virus and appearance of symptoms) is between 10 and 20 days.\n\nBefore the typical rash appears, patients often develop a fever, headache, swollen glands and other flu like symptoms.\n\nSkin vesicles contain the virus but are not the primary sources. Scabs are not infectious. Patients are contagious from 2 days before onset of the rash until all lesions have crusted.\n\nCan Chickenpox be prevented?\n\nYes. The easiest way to prevent catching chickenpox is to get vaccinated. However, vaccination is only successful in 70% to 90% of all vaccinations. Individuals who have been vaccinated but still acquire chickenpox, usually have a milder disease that heals more quickly than non vaccinated individuals.\n\nChickenpox and Pregnancy\n\nChickenpox can cause serious problems during pregnancy, especially when infection occurs early in the pregnancy or at the time of delivery. If it occurs early in pregnancy, several types of fetal abnormalities, including limb abnormalities, scarring of internal organs and neurological damage can occur. Pregnant women who suspect exposure to chicken pox should immediately contact their healthcare provider.
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I searched and searched for ya, but I'm convinced it really WAS just some guy talking at your party. I hate not finding an answer. :o(
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Go to your friend's lame party.  Liven it up.
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I like them when they are simple yet show appreciation to the people attending. I would recommend chicken with some steamed vegetables, mashed potatoes, gravy, and sheet cakes for dessert.
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ask your doctor about getting the chicken pox vaccine
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go to www.poxpox.com.. its a chinese website (u might have some problems with fonts)but they got a lot of the WWE superstar entereance themes..check it out
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Social convention I guess :D
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There is a shot for the chicken pox, unfortunately it's a vaccine that you take to avoid getting them. Once you get them, you got them. Try bathing in Aveeno (available at walmart) to help with the itching to possibly avoid many eruptions, and take Tylenol or Advil for the headache and fever. Try not to scratch, it only makes matters worse.
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Been a youth pastor for over 10 years. To answer your question you will need to figure out the purpose of the idea.\nAre you looking for soemthing:\nfun\nspiritual\nan event for youth to invite friends?\nIf you want one for all three here is a great one I use twice a year...\nIts called BARF NIGHT\nB.A.R.F. stands for bring a real friend and BARF! Its like of like fear factor, its a great opportunity for kids to invite there friends, have a great time and always close with a very short message. I recently had a BARF night after new years and had 5 times more kids then on my regular service nights....