Measles, Mumps and Chickenpox

[Anonymous]

Did you have measles, mumps and chickenpox as a child? I had all 3 and so did everyone else I knew. I was under the impression that this was normal and expected at the time.

[Anonymous]

Only chickenpox. I don't know a single person who has had mumps or measles. I'm 37.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only chickenpox. I don't know a single person who has had mumps or measles. I'm 37.

Same here. I'm 46.

[Anonymous]

I had them all. I'm 51.

[Anonymous]

I caught chicken pox after a trip to Scandinavia at age 30. I caught mumps after a trip to Belgium at age 37. Still waiting on measles, but staying away from Disneyland!

[Anonymous]

Just chickenpox. And it was terrible. I am glad my kids won't have to go through that.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP. I am in my mid 60's.

[Anonymous]

I'm 45 and had mumps as a child and chicken pox as an adult (awful).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I caught chicken pox after a trip to Scandinavia at age 30. I caught mumps after a trip to Belgium at age 37. Still waiting on measles, but staying away from Disneyland!

I'm 55, by the way.

[Anonymous]

I'm 50 and had chickenpox and mumps -- as did most everyone I knew.

[Anonymous]

I had chicken pox and mumps. The diseases are not usually complicated but occasionally they wind up landing a kid in the hospital. Both diseases can also cause reproductive problems in men if they are infected after puberty.

Measles is a different beast and very frequently requires hospitalization because of life-threatening complications. Yes, people used to die from measles, even if you didn't know them.

[Anonymous]

During the most recent measles outbreak in the US: 1 in 4 victims were hospitalized. 1 in 20 will develop pneumonia. 1 in 1,000 will develop swelling in the brain causing brain damage and death. Victims remain susceptible to brain complications up to eight years after infection, even if the initial disease was mild.

"In 1962, children's book author Roald Dahl lost his oldest daughter, Olivia, to measles. She was 7 years old."

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/02/03/383305152/beyond-rash-and-fever-how-measles-can-kill

[Anonymous]

I'm 42 and had chicken pox but was vaccinated against the other two. My sister is seven years older than me and I think she had mumps.

[Anonymous]

I'll be 50 this year. I've had chicken pox. Everyone I know was vaccinated against mumps and measles.

[Anonymous]

OP--just a bit younger than you.

I had all three as did every child I knew at the time. My parents had six kids and so went through these illnesses 18 times. Twenty-four if you also count rubella, which we called German measles, as distinguished from what we called red measles (rubeola).