DH took dd (nearly 4) to get her hair cut yesterday as she looks like worzel gummage (thick curly tangled thatch). She's 7 days post chickenpox, so no longer infected but has a few visible scabs. Washed her hair then on eof the stylists took dh for a "quiet word" they asked if her spots were chickenpox and dh said they were the scabs as a result of HAVING HAD IT a week previously. She then went on yo say they couldn't have her in the salon as one of the other stylists was pregnant and "one of her mates who was pregnant was near a child 10 days after the child got chickenpox and had to go to the drs for a special injection" 
. Dh asked pg stylist if she'd had it (yes) and explained the DoH and Manchester PCT policy of exposure to chickenpox ie 5 days post spots infection gone all ok esp as spots scabbed over.
They persisted in asking them to leave which they di but only after dh insisted they dry her hair whilst the pg stylist stayed in the back room.
I know there are complications of pg women get chickepox I have a pg friend who hasn't had it who was barred from our house last week! Are the guidelines diff for pg women???
Also loads of children go there to have their hair cut how the f**k is she going to protect herself from all their germs, just about every child I know has had is having or is incubating the pox at the moment. I suggest she secretes herself in darkened room until delivery .
Sorry if i sound unsympathetic but during the swine flu outbreak I had to work whilst pg in a child health department with numerous children and families who'd been in contact with swine flu, i certainly couldn't ask to not come into contact with school children, it's my job!
Quie up for being told I'm wrong here, I know I can be a bit hardfaced. Dh has booked her in for next Thur but am going to cancel it and book her somewhere else me being all uptight and pfb that I am 