To move away pfb from the sick child?

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Yesterday I took dh to an NHS walk in centre as he was in lots of pain. Me and Ds who's 5 months were waiting in waiting room. Various folk came and went. Then a women came with her granddaughter and asked her to wait outside whilst she talked to the receptionist. In a loud voice she explained she thought here gd had chicken pox and wanted some advice. The receptionist asked her to come in to see a nurse.

So this little girl who apparently ill enough that grandma didn't want her to come in to the walk in centre came in to the waiting room. Out of all the places to sit Grandma directed her to sit behind me and Ds. As her gd was kicking my chair and coughing all over me I asked grandma if she had said that she thought her gd had chicken pox. She confirmed this. So I said that I would move then as i was with a baby. Cue all the adults on the other side of the waiting room (no babies there) watching as I walked over to the bit of the waiting room designed for children, full of toys.

Then I took dh to hospital.

So was she unreasonable to put a sick child next to a baby when she didn't have to or was I bu to move? Is it pfb not to want your baby to be sat next to an ill child who possibly had chickenpox?

She just wasnt thinking. I dont think it was pfb, but I was very pfb with my first so Im not sure what is pfb and what is sensible. But fwiw I think you were being sensible.

You're joking right? You took your pfb into an NHS walk in centre and aren't happy because there were sick children there.

Are you going to give your child the cp vaccine?

The lady probably wasn't thinking- she was thinking about her potentially poorly DGD. I don't think it was pfb to not want your 5 month old to not catch chicken pox. I'd have moved away too in that situation.

She shouldnt have taken her GD there with suspected chicken pox.

Nothing anyone can do for it anyway and its infectious and dangerous to some.

If you take a baby into a place full of sick people what can you expect.

No unmember I was unhappy that out of all the space in the room one could put a sick child, she chose to put the sick child in coughing distance of a baby when she didn't have to.

If you were worried about coming into contact with sick people, why did you even go in there? You and DS weren't ill so didn't need to be there.

I too think the woman just wasn't thinking, but you must've known contact with sick people was possible when you walked in the door.

dropdeadfred the CP vaccine isnt available routinely, its onoy for certain groups.

She shouldve been isolated by the receptionist anyway not sat next to everyone else.

think you are being a little bit pfb to be honest.. If you're in a hospital or a clinic then obviously there are going to be sick people there - it really is irrelevant whether someone you think may have had cp sat beside you - you've no idea what the people you went towards had!

In my opinion also, its a bit like going to park etc, you don't know what illness everyone around you has or is developing etc - you can either completely panic about it or relax and regard it as being good for your children to build up some immunity.

your pfb probably comes into contact with chicken pox all the time. in the shops, the supermarket, in the street.... It's a walk in centre for sic people, do you honestly expect people to not take their infectious children in there? yabu.

I wasn't worried about coming into contact with sick people tidy any more than I would not stop taking Ds to the gps for his jabs because there might be sick people in the waiting room.

If there were obviously sick people waiting I would not go near them with my baby. I'd expect the same courtesy in that they would choose to sit somewhere else if they came in after me.

She probably wasn't thinking, may not have even noticed your baby - YWNBU to move though. PFB or not, makes sense to me.

I think yabu to expect someone who came into a clinic with a sick child to be worrying overmuch about how where she sat with her sick child would affect the other presumably sick people there...

Thanks amberleaf I thought walk in centres were for minor injuries and ailments not infectious diseases.

You're right thumbwitch she probably wasn't thinking.

I didn't realise you could catch CP from someone with CP coughing on you

I would have moved but I wouldn't have made a fuss about it, just got up and moved.

Walk in centres - especially at weekends - are basically for anyone with something not bad enough to need a and e.

I am a nurse for the NHS.
First of all, she shouldn't have been there with a child with chicken pox. What does she expect us to do?
Secondly, yes yabu. Your child/ren need as much exposure to colds/viruses/etc as they can. Children cope so much better with chicken pox than adults, it really is preferable for them to get it young.
Their immune systems will not get strong if you try to protect them from anything. In fact, the more they are exposed to, the stronger their immune systems will become. Obviously use common sense, and don't expose them to anything potentially life-threatening, but please don't keep them away from people with normal colds or viruses. You are not doing them a favour.

And breathe.

Chakotyblue, I think that is a dangerous thing to say. What if the CP have became infected and the little girl needed antibiotics.

MMeChickenlegs - of course you can catch it like that! It's highly infectious as well as contagious.

Sorry! CHINlegs, not Chickenlegs

madame a quick google shows cp can be spread through mucus and saliva.

chakotay Ds is currently full of cold. I don't keep him in a bubble! I would have thought 5 months is a bit young to be exposed to things like chickenpox if possible. Do you think he'd be ok?

I can't believe people are saying this grandmother should not have sought medical advice for the child. Presumably something out of the ordinary was happening with the child that made her think she needed to be seen. Dismissing chicken pox as an invariably mild illness for which no treatment is needed is DANGEROUS advice. Yes generally it is no major issue. I've had three dcs all have it without problems. However it can present an opportunity for the patient to contract a serious infection and any arent or grandparent whit a child with CP should be aware that things can change.

OP - you took your baby to a medical environment. Sitting next to infectious people is inevitable there. The problem with this case is that you knew about it.