To hunt down these bastards who exposed my son to chicken pox

How's your son feeling now @littleredbumblebee?

When something is not compulsory or written in law it is a CHOICE.
Therefore it is an individual's right whether to disclose or not. EVERY PERSONS MEDICAL HISTORY IS PERSONAL AND PRIVATE not everyones business. What a ludicrous statement! Our entire NHS works under terms of privacy.
Not everyone is at risk from a virus, the majority of the healthy population can shrug off a virus with simple paracetamol!

They were being very unreasonable to knowingly expose other people to their kids illness. It can be very serious and cause miscarriages etc.
however this is a disease for which a readily available safe and effective vaccine is available so you are U to not vaccinate and then complain about him catching the disease. Same the 100s who moan they miss holidays or other important events because their kids catch it. Vaccinate people!

@mathanxiety I know that it’s contagious before the spots appear. The point is that once the spots appear, you KNOW it’s going to spread, so to continue to put your child about is an arsey thing to do. Before the spots appear, you couldn’t possibly know or be expected to keep your kid away. After - a different story.

The child was contagious before the pocks appeared. The damage was already done. The fact that patients are contagious before anyone suspects illness makes outbreaks hard to contain and illustrates why vaccination is a really good idea.

I so wanted my daughter to get the chicken pox get it over with as always worried it would interfere with our America holiday as could not take her away if got them before hand. Was always asking if could go to a pox party lol. It's a shame he missed his first few days tho never a good time to get these things. I considered vaccine and would have tho she ended up getting chicken pox anyway. Right to be a tad annoyed tho not like exposing him to some life threatening disease tho I get some kids get it bad.

I know someone whose child was Joseph
in a nativity play and woke up with chickenpox on the day of the play. They knowingly sent him in to school so he could do the play and they then pretended he became ill straight after the play. 60 kids on stage and all the families in the audience. Loads of them had chickenpox over Christmas.

So yes people can be selfish twats and it’s annoying. I feel for your son, I’m amazed he’s been able to avoid it for so long - even to get to 7 when he had the first dose of the vaccine is quite good going.

That was a tongue in cheek observation.

But the basic points I made still stand -
It's far better to catch CP before puberty than afterward.
The mother was careless, but her child was contagious before the pocks appeared, and so was the DS.

The basic point - that vaccination should be done - also stands. None of this illness, discomfort, inconvenience, or loss of time would happen if the NHS would get its act together.

Aargh so sorry OP - you did try to vaccinate, missed that - very tough situation. Sorry you’re going through this. Poor lad :(

The app doesn't have that feature. Or maybe some versions of the app don't - mine doesnt.

Sorry if I missed it - why wasn’t he vaccinated?

my son started year 7 today and vomited outside the lunch hall
He is upset that he was sick in front of lots of people and that he now can’t go back until Monday.
Unfortunately it’s not great but he won’t be the only one who is going to miss the beginning of school.
Hope the chicken pox aren’t too bad for your son

Those are very bad odds - the vaccine is 70% to 90% effective for preventing chickenpox and more than 95% effective for preventing severe chickenpox.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine

I got chicken pox when I was 36, and I was really bloody ill.

It's a bummer in terms of timing, but far better than getting it as an adult. The parents of the child he caught it from are twats though, so you're not unreasonable to be angry OP.

I got chicken pox when I was 36, and I was really bloody ill.

It's a bummer in terms of timing, but far better than getting it as an adult. The parents of the child he caught it from are twats though, so you're not unreasonable to be angry OP.

You can still get chicken pox after the vaccine. I had the vaccine and had chillen pox TWICE!! Very mild when I was 12 and very awful when I was 22!! My sister in law, vaccinated, just got chicken pox at 36, her daughter also vaccinated as a baby caught it from her mum, she’s 10. Very insensible comment!

FFS, what is wrong with people. I used to volunteer by a children’s activity and a kid was dropped off by her mother and during a chat with the child it transpired she hadn’t been to school in days because she had CHICKENPOX! Mum had obviously got fed up and dumped her child with us for a couple hours. I have never had chicken pox and was in no hurry to get it so left immediately.

Why aren’t people at least reading the OP’s updates on the thread? I can understand not reading every post on a long thread, but if you click on See All under the OP, you can read all the posts by the OP, and maybe avoid looking like a dick for criticising her for not vaccinating her son!

The op has already explained that he had the CP vaccine first dose when he was 7 but reacted badly to it, hence why her GP advised not to have the second one.

Children in other western countries are being vaccinated. In the UK it's always about saving money. Always. We then get some pontificating why it's science, but it's not. It's just cheap, cheap, cheap.

If not, it's soon to be darkly followed by comments such as 'Fred's mum deliberately gave my child contaminated food. Phew, that's saved me money on school bus fare and food tomorrow.'

@SoupDragon I read it as poster adding a witty reason in line to post she was referring to about how perpetrators are really doing people favours. I might be mistaken though.

CP boy at the campsite saved the OP the cost of the second jab

How? He had an allergic reaction to the first. He is not having the second. No money was saved courtesy of the boy at the campsite and his irresponsible mother.

I would have thought it very unlikely that you would hunt down the virus spreaders and can't believe anyone seriously thought you meant it. It was obviously tongue in cheek. It makes you wonder why people deliberately misunderstand. Anyway, glad your little lad isn't feeling too ill and I'm sure he'll soon make friends. The school sounds really sympathetic and I bet it happens every year

In the wider context of exposure to CP, he's not a victim. CP boy at the campsite saved the OP the cost of the second jab and probably saved the DS from getting the more severe CP that can happen after age 13/ puberty.

The timing was unfortunate, there's no denying that, but this is the only downside to catching it (apart from the medical risks that come with CP, which hopefully won't affect DS)

Given the fact that CP is contagious before the pocks appear, it might not have been the boy at the campsite who exposed the DS to it, and DS himself might have unwittingly exposed many others before the OP realised he was ill.