Is adult chicken pox as bad as they say?
It truly sucks as an adult. You get the lesions on the inside as well as the outside (throat, organs etc) and you can’t exactly drink the calamine lotion for relief. I would advise him to avoid the kids at all cost and get the vaccine. I’ve had it twice, as a kid and again as an adult (apparently there are different strains in Australia and the UK), and it is far, far worse as an adult. Natural immunity, baby! I wouldn’t bet on, myself. My bf was exposed repeatedly as a kid and only got it aged 26, and he was miserable.
Also look up Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, another lovely effect from the gift-that-keeps-on-giving. I am personally acquainted and it is teh sux0r. “Chicken Pox parties” should be a thing of the past that are treated with revulsion IMHO, but I don’t know enough about pediatric care for that opinion to matter much….
