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?

The receptionist should not have let someone with suspected CP wait in the general waiting room. My GP surgery would have kept the child isolated.

I would have moved away too! I've seem what a bad case of chicken pox is like for a child.

Wouldn't it be okay for people with other suspected contagious conditions to be in there? Flu? Strep throat? Whooping cough? Rotavirus? Conjunctivitis? Mumps? Shingles? Tb? Colds? Vomitting virus? Slapped cheek? I presume hospital doesn't ask all them to wait out in the cold, either.

Suspected flu, whooping cough, mumps and other contagious viruses with readily recognisable rashes should not be in a main waiting area if suspected. No-one needs to wait in a car, but a separate office/room should be provided for the wait, as a pp experienced.

I've been to the GP twice with dc with chicken pox. First time with dd2 age 6 months with cp-you can't keep #2 away when #1 has it. She was really ill and the GP was keeping a very strict eye on her, and with ds who had spots in his mouth and down his throat etc so needed checking, particualrly as he was coughing badly too.
Both times the receptionists put us in a room on our own, and made sure we went in as soon as possible. However, our Gp practice has spare rooms, not all places have them.

However, you don't know that you didn't move next to someone who had something considerably more infectious. One friend of mine went to the Gp with a routine appointment for an ongoing problem and mentioned while she was there that she had the worst headache ever-she was promptly sent to A&E by the GP-with meningitis.

I wouldn't have waited in the waiting room with a baby that age if I was worried about infection. Not with a dp, you could have left him and came back.