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To leave dd at nursery when they have an outbreak of chicken pox?

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anychocswilldo · 14/05/2012 10:05

Dropped dd at nursery this morning and there is a sign on the door saying there have been 2 confirmed cases of chicken pox. I wasn't too worried as I always thought that chicken pox was one of those childhood things that u 'get out of the way' I also assumed that if they have only been confirmed over weekend or this morning (sign wasn't on the door on Friday), then chances are dd has already played with infected children and may already have it anyway. So I let her stay because she loves it so much. However on telling my mum about it she said I prob shouldn't have let her stay and now I feel awful. I'm at home with dc2 and I don't know if I should go and get dd from nursery. Would there be any point at this stage was ibu to have left her in the first place? She is 4 but dc2 is 15 months, was I wrong?

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Sirzy · 14/05/2012 10:06

If you kept her off every time another child had a childhood illness then she would never be in!

MoaningMinnieRisesAgain · 14/05/2012 10:10

DS came down with chickenpox at the weekend, he was at preschool on Friday and was probably contagious then, but we didn't know. Nothing you can do except wait and see.

I have had to send DD to school even though I suspect she will come down with it soon - but she hasn't got it right now. I would rather they got it over and done with while little as it is worse when they are older. Incubation period is up to three weeks so you could potentially keep them off for 3 weeks then they develop it anyway and need another week or more off.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 14/05/2012 10:11

I don't think you were wrong at all.

But if your Mum is anything like mine, (and my Mum would have said the same thing) she is far more over protective over her grandchildren than she was over me. My mum says she's like that because as you get older you gain more of a sense of mortality, so she gets more paranoid. Happy days! Grin

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 14/05/2012 10:20

No point whatsoever going to get your DD now. If she's going to get it, she'll get it now anyway. Really don't worry about it. Million of kids get CP and are absolutely fine.

lazylula · 14/05/2012 10:22

You were right to leave her. You woul need to keep her off for sometime to avoid all risk (talking weeks).

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anychocswilldo · 14/05/2012 11:28

Thank you all, I hate second guessing myself! Yes outraged that's like my mum!

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Mrsjay · 14/05/2012 11:30

YANBU what were you supposed to do rush home with her and pu t her in a bubble Grin she may catch them she may not , childhood illnesses are really unavoidable unless you put them in the bubble Smile

Kveta · 14/05/2012 11:33

if the outbreak is new, then she will have been exposed to infected children last week anyway.

and YANBU - DS has gone to nursery through an outbreak of CP, when every other child in his room got it (apart from 2 who had already had it). He remains the only one to have escaped, for some reason Confused He has already spent a day playing with one friend who broke out int eh spots that evening (so DS was def. exposed), and also 2 sessions at playgroup where he was playing directly with children who went on to develop spots later that day. So at least 4 confirmed exposures over the past year or so, plus many more from individuals at nursery. You can't protect them from exposure forever!

I think he is just waiting until a really inconvenient time to go down with it now...

Mrsjay · 14/05/2012 11:35

Kveta dd2 is 14 and never had chicken pox I have never kept her away from nursery school when they were going around , some maybe are immune to them

wonkylegs · 14/05/2012 11:35

I am immuniocompromised and mustn't go near CP or other infectious stuff but if I kept DS off nursery every time one of these notices went up he'd never be there.
There are 75 children in the top class (not all at once, only a handful are FT) and chances are somebody's got something at any one time.
I use those notices as a caution to be aware that its going round so you can keep an eye open for symptoms and in my case get treatment quick if needed. As long as obviously infectious kids are kept at home this seems a sensible and realistic approach.

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anychocswilldo · 14/05/2012 12:02

kveta that's exactly what I thought! She was probably playing with these kids last week. I do worry a bit more for my 15 month old because she's smaller, saying that she isn't a little baby. Nothing I can do now anyway...

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DeWe · 14/05/2012 12:09

I didn't get chickenpox until I was 20. That would have been a lot of school missed if I'd been kept off every chicken pox epidemic.

ErikNorseman · 14/05/2012 12:14

If she has no other health issues then it's not a bad thing if she gets cp now. DS had it the other week and I was quite relieved. I had it at 10 and was miserable and really ill.

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 14/05/2012 12:37

Yanbu. Most the time you dont know it's chicken
Pox til the spots come out. They r infectious before that point too and no one takes any notice of a sniffle kids r hardly ever without runny nose. She would definately have already been exposed and keeping her Off nursery is pretty much pointless now unless she becomes ill. Just one of the many bugs viruses etc that kids get if u Kept them off every time there's an out break or she has a sniffle she would never be there :)

alarkaspree · 14/05/2012 12:40

anychocs, my ds got CP at 11 months and it was very mild, he barely suffered at all. I wouldn't be unduly worried about your dd2.

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