to take out my dc who has the pox?

[sleeplessinseatle]

Obviously not to playgroups etc, but I've got a baby at home and don't think I can cope otherwise. Is there anywhere we can safely go where there won't be lots of kids/pregnant women?

yabu
Wait a few days and all will be well. You'd be putting too many others at risk otherwise, which just isn't worth it

where do you live? Can you not go for a walk in the park and kick a ball around?

where do you live? Can you not go for a walk in the park and kick a ball around?

I don't know. I didn't take mine out until they had scabbed over.

Back garden all wrapped up?

oops

Sorry yabu. I know its awful bring stuck in but its not work the risk. The risk isn't just to pregnant women and other children, you can't always tell just be looking at someone that they are at risk.

Yes, the park is a good idea. When its been raining its deserted!

by park I dont mean playground, I was meaning somewhere green near to you.

Welllll ...

If you drive (so, avoiding public transport or walking along the street), I think you would be OK to go to a very open open open space. And if anyone approaches, just walk fast in the opposite direction.

We ventured out twice -- once to the top of Arthur's Seat, and once to a windswept empty beach. Both trips were sanity-saving.

Do you have a car? Could you do a drive through takeaway, even for an ice cream, and then sit somewhere in the car to eat it?

Eye spy is fun from the car if you park up somewhere.

loving the windswept beach idea, and the park I'm thinking of doesnt have a playground... its one of those 'no ball games' places.

Doubtless I will get burnt at the mumsnet stake for mentioning this but CP is contagious through close contact. That means being in the same room as a case for 15 minutes or more. Not the same postcode!
CP is endemic in the population and children are most infectious when they haven't come out with th spots and you know nothing about it. Imo you are fine to go outside as long as you don't let your dcs climb all over people or go on buses/trains etc. It's a good time of year for conker collecting?

I'd go for walks in the woods and on the beach -- most public playgrounds are deserted this time of year, too.

This whole quarantine culture thing is absurd; if CP is that dangerous it should be routinely vaccinated against. Full stop.

I would probably go for a walk around the block or something, avoiding highly populated times and areas, ie school run times and town centres, play areas ect. I also would not take them into shops or other such places.

Contrary to Northernlurkers 'advice' CP is easily transmitted in seconds via airborne droplets (coughing, sneezing etc) Personally I'd rather stay indoors for 5 days rather than risk infecting anyone having chemo or who is post organ transplant although i know it's a view held by some that it's THOSE people who should stay indoors. If you absolutely have to go out, stick him/her in a pram with a rain cover on and grab some fresh air in the park but avoid shops, playparks etc.

yabu
sorry, i know it sucks.

according to NHS

"Chickenpox is most infectious from one to two days before the rash starts until around five days after the rash starts. " -

and

" It is spread through contact with someone who is infected with the virus. About 90% of people who come into contact with the virus will become infected.
Spreading the virus

The chickenpox virus can be found in the tiny droplets of saliva and nasal mucus that come from the sneezes and coughs of an infected person. You can become infected by breathing in these droplets from the air.
These droplets can also land on surfaces or objects, such as clothing or bedding. If you then handle an infected object and touch your face, you can transfer the virus to yourself and become infected."

FFS! The CP vaccination does NOT work for everybody. I was pregnant 2 years ago. My only contact with CP was being 'followed' round by a woman with dc with CP in a local supermarket. I caught CP for the third time in my life (no natural immunity to it). My baby died. I was 19+5.

If I could stay indoors on quarantine for swine flu for 21 solid days when my dc came down with it one after another, why the hell can't people stay inside with their dc until EVERY CP sot is scabbed over?

I have been told by my GP that the vaccination wouldn't work for me as I have no natural immunity to it. So I have to rely on the goodwill of other people. And last time I did that, my baby died.

I am currently pregnant again, and if I came across someone out in public with CP, I would go fucking mental be very angry that through being selfish, they could KILL my baby.

YABVVVU.

Loudlass :(

so sorry loudlass

Do you know anyone who have kids that also have it?
Then a play date at thier house, then yours.
Keeps kids amused, adults sane

YABU. It's not just children and pregnant women though is it? It's those with poor immunity as well. Anyone who hasn't yet had chicken pox can catch it (as well as some who already have) and it'd pretty nasty when you get it as an adult.

Have you got a garden you can take them out in for fresh air?

So sorry for your loss Loudlass you make a very good point as to why people should stay indoors when they have something like CP.

It is just a subject (that for obvious reasons) both angers me and upsets me, for the sake of soemthing so simple. I hope my experience makes the point to everyone that there are VERY good reasons that you are asked to stay indoors until EVERY CP spot is scabbed over.

YABU,

its selfish, loudlass should be enough for you to realise a few more hours with cebeebies for help wont kill you!

loudlass, im so sorry for your loss

Sassybeast information here from the RCOG which ties in with what I have said below.

Public health does not require the OP to stay indoors and she should not be guilt-laden for going out.

Loudlass - I'm very sorry for your loss. As long as we don't vaccinate against CP in this country any child in the supermarket or anywhere else could be incubating it and infectious. It is exactly to protect people like you that I think we should vaccinate because it does work for most people.