article_snippet: For most children, chickenpox - which causes a red itchy spots that crust over to form scabs - is a mild illness that gets better on its own.
article_snippet: But one in 100 chickenpox patients suffer complications from the virus.
article_snippet: Around 95 per cent of children catch chickenpox before the age of 16, and for most it's a mild illness leading to itching, blisters and sometimes a high temperature.
article_snippet: Around 95 per cent of children catch chickenpox before the age of 16.
article_snippet: Mr Hope said: 'Most people wouldn't even take Most people child to the doctors if Most people had Chickenpox. '
article_snippet: Chickenpox is normally a mild childhood illness but serious complications can occur in an estimated one per cent of cases . '
article_snippet: Some parents even wish that Some parents child would get the illness, so that it is "out of the way" but now even the mention of chicken pox sends a shiver down my spine. '
article_snippet: Of course it's incredibly rare for chicken pox to kill a child, it's obviously not impossible and I just wish something could have been done to help a child.'
highlights_snippet: Doctors say complications occur in one in 100 cases of the chickenpox .
  