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Fortunately, she is absolutely fine. I even thought that Pickle would escape the dreaded Pox. I was really hoping that she could avoid it as she suffers with quite bad Eczema, but exactly a fortnight after Pudding was stricken with it, Pickle developed the same. Luckily, her chickenpox was of the straight forward variety. Pudding was just very unlucky. It seems that only 1-10,000 have a complicated chickenpox. In certain countries like the USA, children are routinely vaccinated for chickenpox. I'm not entirely sure why we don't here in the UK. The official line is that it's nearly always a mild illness (I suspect there is a financial reason). You are able to access the vaccination yourself through your GP or you could ask a pharmacist. With the benefit of hindsight, I would have had my two vaccinated had I known how poorly Pud's would become with it. But now it's out of the way, so big sighs of relief all round! I am adding an link to the NHS website which gives more detail about the chickenpox vaccine

[http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-vaccine.aspx NHS: Chickenpox (varicella) vaccine]