To avoid someone with shingles

[bummymummy77]

Sil has come down with shingles.

Ds hasn't been vaccinated and i would be totally down with him catching it but we're due to travel to the UK smack bang when the spots would come out, there's no way they'd let us fly.

Getting it from sil isn't so much of a worry, what worries me is that her dd is 18 months and hasn't had chicken pox yet so there's a chance she will catch it from her Mum and pass it on to ds.

There's a gender revel party tonight, ds's birthday party this weekend and thanksgiving that we'll all be affected if we stay away from them and will cause a family shit storm.

Aibu to want to keep ds away from them until we leave mid December? I know the chance is slim but we'll lose a shit ton of money on flights and Airbnb's if he gets sick.

Can't you get your DS vaccinated against chickenpox? From memory you have a few days after exposure to get the jab.

Face and arms? Doesn't sound like shingles. Shingles is only one side of body and very unusual to affect face and arms. Is the diagnosis certain?

When I was working over here about 7 years ago and one of the girls I was nannying for broke out on the plane we took her to a local ped doctor the next day. They told us we weren't allowed to leave the state and made us leave through the back entrance of the health centre. Nobody would come anywhere near the girls the entire time we were here.

There are a few unvaccinated kids here but the cps has been investigating families who've had pox parties. It's taken pretty seriously here. I do think the docs reaction was a bit ott though.

Musical I've known 2 people have shingles on their face, so not that unusual. But I agree to have it both locations would make shingles aeem unlikely.

Not a certain diagnosis. I did tell sil maybe she should get tested but the doc told her she's probably beyond the period they'd give anti virals and it'd probably cost a fair bit to test.

I don't really want to get him vaccinated to be honest. I wouldn't mind him getting it any other time.

I certainly wish I'd vaccinated mine. She had cpox badly and was so poorly with it for 2 weeks and then unfortunate to get shingles at 4 years old! She was in so much pain.

Id certainly recommend vaccinating!

I think the OP is aware her DS can't get shingles, she is right however that her niece could be incubating chicken pox from her co-sleeping breastfeeding shingles mother :) and therefore could pass it on.

I would avoid them. I am also not a fan of any child getting them unnecessarily regardless of travel so yes unless you are going to stop the kids from playing together I would avoid to be honest.

My sister had similar queries recently and forgot to stop the kids playing and her baby got chicken pox from their cousin who was incubating it at the time

I developed shingles at 39wks pregnant. My midwives and consultant responded in a fairly hardcore manner : I had to effectively quarantine myself and had full on barrier nursing in labour and postnatal.

This was in London last year.

I would avoid them till your DN either gets Chicken Pox and scabs over, or is beyond an estimated incubation period.

Surely they'll understand you don't want to take the risk. Unless there is a big downside you could also consider vaccination. A severe infection is horrendous - I've dealt with someone unable to live independently due to encephalitis related to chicken pox.

They aren't contagious during the incubation period except for 1-2 days before the spots appear

I'm in the US, and I can't recall the last time I heard of a child with chicken pox. Not in my son's lifetime, at least, and he's nearly 18 years old. Why don't you want to vaccinate?

I have had shingles.

When you have shingles you shed active chicken pox virus. You cannot catch shingles, but you CAN catch chicken pox from a person who has shingles. Avoid Your SIL until her lesions have completley scabbed over.

John - I do feel she should be a little careful. She was going to go to a local babygroup this morning, I hope she thought better of it.

There have been a few cases of chicken pox around here, we have high rates of non or under vaccinating.

Chicken pox is the one vaccine I didn't do.

Sorry to copy and paste but this sums it up.

There is also concern that the vaccine may not provide life-long immunity, which, if true, would result in more adults catching active chicken pox infections, opening them to generally more serious and dangerous symptoms.

I didn't want this to become a vaccine debate post.

There's still so much unclear about the vaccine. Like whether or not it will stop someone getting shingles in later life. If it comes out that it will i would probably get him vaccinated.

Can you not just explain that with your trip coming up that your doctor's advice is that you steer clear of SIL and DN? Blame it on the doctor, particularly if they 'flipped out'.

Dh left her a voicemail to that affect. We actually called our other doctor and they were even more militant and said she and her ds should be quarantined.

I still see it turning in to another reason to bash us though.

Her dd sorry. Seems my phone now corrects dd to ds ha.

Well today is the 21st day since sil scabbed over and we were due to all have dinner tomorrow and dn has broken out in the pox!

Thank FUCK I've been a neurotic germ phone around them the last few weeks!

This is the fourth time I've seen chicken pox break out exactly on the 21st day.

Off to buy travel insurance just in case!