Possible/probable chicken pox exposure

[vvviola]

There's chicken pox in DD's kindergarten. It doesn't appear to be a particularly virulent dose (so far only 2 cases, but maybe just at the start of it).

Based on the dates we were notified about it, and the incubation period, DD could theoretically be coming into the 'infectious without symptoms' stage. Or she could not (yet) have caught it at all. She's not showing any signs of being in any way ill.

WWYD? Keep her home from everywhere other than kindergarten (where I figure it's circulating anyway)? Go about your normal plans - including library, playgrounds, shopping? Just keep away from people who would be at risk if they contracted chicken pox?

I remember being furious when a friend came to visit us (and newborn DD2) and boasted that she had been purposely exposing her kids to chicken pox and was hoping they'd 'caught them this time'. Would going about my usual plans with DD be just as bad?

Obviously if she was sick and/or had any indication that she had the chicken pox, we'd be going absolutely nowhere.

WWYD?

Go about your normal plans, unless you know anyone with a compromised immune system. If you stay in every time they might have caught something, you'll be permanently trapped in the house.

I see what you mean... I'm just so conscious that it's contagious without any symptoms and I'd hate to pass it to someone who was high risk.

Definitely go about your normal plans. My dd1 only caught it a couple of weeks ago after being exposed to it at least 5 times in the last couple of years. In the end she caught it from dd2 who is 19 months & doesn't get half as much exposure to kids (& germs) as dd1 so I've no idea how they caught it that way round.

Also another point to note is that I gave birth to ds 3 weeks ago (right in the middle of both my girls getting it), & my midwife told me that as I'd already had it, the baby was in no danger. Also it's very rare for an under 1 to get chicken pox.