Chicken Pox (Even Tho Vaccinated)?

My daughter had "atypical" chicken pox when she was 1 1/2, both her and her twin brother were vaccinated at age 1. He didn't get them. They are contagious until the bumps start to scab over. She was exposed to a lot of people before we realized what it was and nobody came down with them. The doctor told us the symptoms are much less severe and for the most part, they were, she basically only had the bumps, no fever. It was news to me that they could still get them after being vaccinated. She was back to normal within a week.

Vaccines are NOT full proof-so its very possible to get chicken poxs even if you have had the vaccine (this goes with ALL vaccines). Here is an example of an outbreak in FL (http://www.wesh.com/education/15294396/detail.html) ALL of these kids had the vaccine! Well since one didn't work the CDC is now saying two should. There was another area that had an outbreak of kids who all had two vaccines---so now they are looking at increasing the the vaccine to three shots. Probably best your little one did get them! Now they don't have to worry much about getting them again. And let me tell you getting them as an adult is not as bad as they make it sound....I had them 3 months ago! Never had them as a child even though I went to pox parties and I opted out of the vaccine (its to new with out knowing the long term side effects for me personally).
Hope she has a speedy recovery! Oatmeal baths were my feel good thing (as cold as water as you can get!).

I'm not sure you can be "sure" it's the chicken pox -- I think that's a good question for your doctor. I wonder if a blood test could show that. I do know lots of kids who have gotten chicken pox -- and they all have been vaccinated. It went through our school of vaccinated children last fall. My doctor was always anti-vaccine because of just this. Plus he thinks 20 years from now we're going to see a lot of adults with chicken pox when the vaccine wears off. I had my daughter vaccinated when I was forced to for school. And I also think she had a mild case this year but it is hard to know. (She's 10)

Just an add on -- one poster said it isn't as bad as they say when you get them as an adult. I disagree! I had them in college, age 21, and I ended up in the hospital where I was told that I had the worst case they had ever seen. I had them in my throat, which made it difficult to breathe. And I was down and out for two entire weeks. It might not be that way for every adult, but it was horrible for me, and my older daughter (20) who got them at age 2, doesn't even remember them.

and don't believe if you get them once you can't get them again. my sister and i are both living proof!