What are the risks from chickenpox vaccine?
January 1, 2008
What are the risks from chickenpox vaccine?
Getting chickenpox vaccine is much safer than getting chickenpox disease. Most people who get chickenpox vaccine do not have any problems with it.
However, a vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. The risk of chickenpox vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.
Mild Problems
- Soreness or swelling where the shot was given (about 1 out of 5 children and up to 1 out of 3 adolescents and adults)
- Fever (1 person out of 10, or less)
- Mild rash, up to a month after vaccination (1 person out of 20, or less). It is possible for these people to infect other members of their household, but this is extremely rare.
Note: MMRV vaccine has been associated with higher rates of fever (up to about 1 person in 5) and measles-like rash (about 1 person in 20) compared with MMR and varicella vaccines given separately.
Moderate Problems
- Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (less than 1 person out of 1,000).
Severe Problems
- Pneumonia (very rare)
Other serious problems, including severe neurological problems (brain reactions) and low blood count, have been reported after chickenpox vaccination. These happen so rarely, however, that experts cannot tell whether they are caused by the vaccine or not. If they are, it is extremely rare.
This information was taken directly from the Vaccine Information Statement 
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The greatest risk with the chicken pox vaccine is not from the actual injection itself but rather, the risks associated with delaying the contraction of the disease.
If you get chicken pox as a child it is generally mild and relatively benign. IF you get the chicken pox as an adult it is horrible, dangerous and very miserable.
The risk with this new generation being vaccinated against what would be a relatively benign disease is that we may be delaying the inevitable. We could easily be faced with “chicken pox epidemics” amongst our college students 20 years from now with much more serious complications.
Just a thought for those evaluating the risks and benefits.