Going to the shop with Chicken Pox?

Haven’t RTFT (and I agree that you shouldn’t take her into the pharmacy) but it does sound more like a post-viral rash to me. You mentioned that as a possibility in your first post, which suggests she’s had this before? IME with DS, if you get them once you’ll get them again. If it’s more ‘rashy’ than ‘spotty’ then that’s most likely what it is. No real treatment either, apart from cream if it’s itchy.

For all anyone here knows the child doesnt even have chicken pox lots of things cause a viral rash! Chicken pox is fluid filled blisters and usually other symptoms as well.
Look at you all. A bunch of grown women having a go unnecessarily at a woman asking for advice! What if shes a single mum with ZERO support and she needs essentials for her and her children! Pharmacy's usually have several contagious illnesses passing through them on an hourly basis why is it ok for those illnesses but not a child who MIGHT have chicken pox?
Its alright for people to go around spreading cold/flu etc because let's face it your jobs arent going to allow you time off for the sniffles or even covid anymore and your going into work passing your germs around to others who may or may not have immunosuppressed/vulnerable family members but you dont think twice about that do you?

op If you have to go to the pharmacy then go, you need your medication and yes you can go to the shop just make sure she doesnt touch anything. Go feed the ducks, go for a walk, fresh air helps alot of illnesses, maybe not the play park though.

Oh and this is coming from someone with contamination OCD

I agree with this. I've had to take mine to pharmacy, just kept distance but what can you do.

Chicken pox rash and a viral rash are completely different. CP is fluid filled blisters, once they get one more usually appear quite rapidly.

Surely anyone that anxious cleans their child's hands after use, and deals with the (tiniest) risk that way.

If she was ill recently then it could be a post viral rash rather than chickenpox. In the absence of raised spots that are fluid filled I'd say probably not chickenpox

Well yes because if you're immune compressed for any reason you don't want to catch it as it can be serious/fatal. We can't just stay indoors for ever in case we come across yourselves.

Jesus no you can’t take her out.

you don’t need a pharmacist to tell you she has chickenpox ffs

do an Amazon fresh delivery for food I did that when I had Covid and we were still meant to stay home

Can you post a photo of the rash/spots?

I’ve just been through chicken pox with my child. They were the same, you’d never have known anything was wrong. It was a tough 10 days or so in the house when they were clinically fine.

You have said that you are going to the pharmacy and will wait until it is empty. It will never be empty as there are staff in there.

I didn’t know anyone who had chickenpox when I got it as an adult. I probably picked it up in the pharmacy or local shop from a child who was taken out by their ignorant parent.

I was in my late 20s, very fit and well and I was very ill and then floored for a long time afterwards. Not a few days, but weeks and months.

If you’re unsure what to do I suggest you phone the pharmacy and get advice on all these questions from a pharmacist. Do what they advise.

I was going to say this. Call the pharmacy, tell them what’s happening and ask them to deliver.

Do you want to share a pic of your child’s spots so we can give an opinion? (Obviously not medically trained, but a lot of mums & grandmas who will have seen chicken pox a hundred times over.)

For anything else you need, go for Tesco Woosh or Sainsbury’s Chop Chop. I’d suggest some calamine cream (imo better and less messy than the lotion) for the spots.

Do you know if she’s been in contact with any confirmed cases?

It’s so inconvenient, I know, but CP is really harmful to some and v v contagious.

She was more infectious the 2 days before her spots appeared. Take her to the chemist if you need to but i am not sure why you think she needs to go there. Calpol if needed and cool baths with 2 heaped tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda in the water 3 times a day, use a sponge to squeeze the water over the pox, don't touch the pox with the sponge.

No, you phone up as many of us have advised. There are alternative solutions which you have been advised of, but you are choosing to ignore them, so yes, you are being selfish as you are putting your needs first when there are other options.

Or that they can’t afford it!

DS is vaccinated but it was about £140 and not everyone can afford that. It’s not always about not being arsed.

My dd gets viral rashes - it’s very different to chicken pox. Have a look at this nhs guidance:

https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/rashes-babies-and-children/

I’m off to book my chickenpox vaccination since I’ve never had it and apparently if it catch as an adult and get seriously ill it’s my fault because other people think if their child has a seriously infectious air borne virus they can’t go to school but they can go to the shops/playpark/places full of sick people.

Am I being unreasonable: YES.

Oh well, I’ll do what I want regardless.

The pharmacy staff may not have had chickenpox yet.

There have been dozens of threads about chickenpox on here - you will never get anyone saying yes it's okay to leave your house because the rest of the world is immunocompromised and/or pregnant.

Disgusting comment.