To take everyone to Scotland when ds has chicken pox

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We have booked a lodge in Scotland from sat to Wednesday as a half term break but ds has come out in spots today.... He seems ok in himself but obviously has the pox

Should we still go away? Thoughts please!

Bunnyjo I am so sorry for your loss def makes me think about the consequences

Sorry going out to somewhere where you may come into contact with others before the pox has crusted over is irresponsible.

You can't do anything about what happens before you know you have it but you can and should ensure that when you know you don't spread it to anyone. Tough if that ruins someones holiday, it could ruin someone elses life.

I wouldn't knowingly take an infectious child traveling
potentially harmful if someone is pg or immunosuppressed
I'm shocked you're even considering this

This is why I have had my ds (ongoing resporatory problems, frequently immunosuppresed) vaccinated.

YABU. And irresponsible to even consider it.

Now how long will it be before some idiot comes along to tell people who are immunocompromised (Transplant survivors for example) to stay indoors forever so that THEY don't have to do the decent thing and keep their germs to themselves for a whole 5-7 days.

'hides thread'

If you can keep them away from other people, and they seem in good sorts, i'd consider it. Both my two were far too Ill to travel once they got started, poor mites

knackeredmother, I am also considering vaccinating my children - sadly, the vaccine wouldn't work for me as I don't build immunity to CP.

Handbag, in my defence you did post and say you carried on with your holiday as when your DD felt well enough - you certainly didn't make it apparent in your first post that you kept her isolated from other people. CP for most people is a bloody inconvenience and a pain in the arse, for people like me and MrsDeVere (who I am glad has hid this thread) the effects are catastrophic.

If it's a lodge in the Highlands I'd go for it, it's very easy to avoid people up here.
He's got the spots, so will soon be uninfectious.
If he's well enough to travel I'd do it.

but if still infectious can transmit cp by droplet or airborne
it's really reckless.if you miss holiday that's shame,but what you must do
spots today likely to be uncrusted by sat.so still infectious,still transmittable

Handbag, that doesn't surprise me. I had to go into the GP surgery when I contracted CP at 15 - I had a GCSE exam and needed a certificate from the GP to prove I was unable to sit the exam. My mum told them I was infectious and the receptionists still directed us to the waiting area! I was in hospital after having a mc and haemmoraging when I got spots from my last CP bout - they put me in isolation until I was discharged and the GP had to visit me daily to check my breathing etc. Our understanding has changed, especially in recent years.

if it's a lodge in the middle of nowhere for country walks and snuggling up inside with dvds then i'd go anyway as you've got less chance of encountering people on an isolated hillside than in whatever town you live in now.

but, if it's a 'holiday park' with 'facililties' then i wouldn't go because your DS can't use them at all and the rest of the family shouldn't really use a swimming pool or sports equipment either.

Generally i've noticed on MN that people are very very vocal about how you must keep children with CP inside the house at all times. But I think it depends where you live, I could easily take a child out around here to the woods and not come within a mile of another person, and in the unlikely case I saw a person coming we could walk the other way before they're anywhere near in infection distance.

You know, we actually have immuno suppressed people in Scotland. People on chemo, people with degenerative illnesses and everything. Some of them may be in the next door lodge to you.

My friends went to Disneyland California with the kids and the night after being in the park the youngest one came out with CP and the following day the older one did too. They were stuck in California for two weeks with it. They probably infected so many kids in the ball pit of the restaurant they ate dinner in before knowing they had it.
I'd go so long as he is feeling ok, make sure to take plenty of whatever it is you use to ease the itch and dab the spots.
You can always get take out food when you are there and at motorway stops on the way just have one person stay in the car with him and bring food out. Or pack sandwiches.

I have a dd that is immune compromised and currently in hospital with chicken pox ( vaccinations don't work for her ) . She caught them of her brother who caught them from someone probably at school . Once I saw one spot I kept him off and we stayed home

Please think on my dd is 9 and deserves to make 10 /11/12 and so on you can not tell at a glance who may get poorly with them

It's. meant to be Baltic up here this weekend so that might keep you all indoors anyway

Errr, I do Euphemia

If the pox appeared on Wednesday and you're going on Saturday then the spots should be nearly dried up by then. I would go but keep him away from close contact with other people until the spots are totally dried up. Chicken pox is spread by close contact not by being in the same postcode as somebody with it. Unfortunately it's most infectious when you've no idea it's there - which makes the pregnant and immunosuppressed very vulnerable to it. That's how it will remain until this country decides to vaccinate - like most other Western countries do.

Maybe wait until Sunday until he's very crusted over to travel? I'd go but take precautions - a Highland lodge is not exactly Disneyland, and you'll know how poorly he is by then.

I wouldn't go OP. You already know you DS has it (different from the other case on her which developed when away) and imo would be irresponsible to go. I don't care how isolated it is, people will still be working and living there (yes, even north of Stirling ;-) ) and it is your responsibility to minimise the risk to others. In my book that means staying at him, keeping your DS inside and away from others until you are positive he's not infectious.

In any case, he may well start to feel really quite ill and would likely be better at home if that happens.