[BykrBayb]

Who takes their kids to the doctor over chicken pox? Everybody I know got through it with a bottle of Calamine lotion or Caladryl, some aspirin, and coloring books or video games. I don't know anyone who went to a doctor, or got a vaccination against it. And yet, we all survived.

[stentorian conservative]

I’m probably going to be called a conspiracy theorist over this one. So IMHU. . .

The chicken pox Vaccine is/was advocated under the guise of scars, time lost from school, etc. When a child has the CP he/she is incredibly contagious and the parent HAS to take time from work. There are no two ways about it. We wouldn’t want time taken from work, now would we.

[metmom]

Nobody. But I guess you just can't trust parents judgement because they're not *trained* medical porfessionals. ( Kind of like paretns aren't capable of educating their own children because theeeey're not trianed educators)

Oatmeal baths worked wonders. I stuck some oatmeal in an old stocking and threw it in the warm, NOT HOT, bathwater and it worked wonders. And the kids loved it.