To fly with chicken pox?

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My son is two days into having chicken pox, we're due to fly to Bora Bora on Wednesday!!!!!
Should we try and get on the flight?? It's a been booked for a year and cost a small fortune!!! We have two other children who have already had the pox. Will he still be contagious by Wednesday?!

You're going to need a fit to fly letter from your Drs OP.

Ive been sat on a plane and watched a family get booted off because their toddler DD was covered in spots and the family couldnt produce said letter

Do no fly, it is incredibly unfair on the other passengers.

We had it the other way around in that our DD came down with it on the second day of our holiday, it was horrible she was very poorly with it too and had some complications, we had to extend our trip by 7 days before a Spanish doctor would give her the go ahead to fly home and we still got stopped at customs and had to show her fit to fly cert. eventually got all costs back on insurance but was no fun. Crap timing but that's life with kids they get ill at the most inconvenient times
Hope you manage to reschedule it soon

There really is no need to call the OP a dick.

If you are flying on tuesday that should be 5 days since the first spot appeared and if there are no new ‘juicy’ ones your child should not be infectious accordingbto the NHS site. In most cases young children get chickenpox much more mildly than adults so fingers crossed no new spots. Perhaps visit your doctor for confirmation rather than accepting the so called wisdom of unqualified strangers. Fwiw many years ago we were flying to Portugal and my eldest had chickenpox, my doctor suggested putting a hat on him! It does seem irresponsible actually but the pointbis seek professional medical advice. Good luck!

Ring your insurance company this would surely be a clear cut claim?

As someone who had chicken pox as an adult and felt grimmer than with any other illness before or since, I can tell you that flying and infecting a plane full of people would be the height of selfishness.

He might be ok by Wednesday so as others have said, make an appt for the GP for Wednesday morning (or Tuesday evening if flying early) & let the dr decide. If the dr won't give you a fit to fly letter (costs about £20) then at least you'll have the proof for your insurance to claim back. It is shit timing though so sorry it's happened to you guys Op.

Airline can still turn you away, even with the drs letter but most will accept it if he seems well enough.

Both my daughters had chickenpox while we were visiting my mum - (different years). Both times we had to get the ferry home instead of flying - bloody nuisance, but no choice.

Please don't. It's hard on you, but for the sake of your son and everyone else travelling with/near you it really is your responsibility not to spread this disease. (I have an immunosuppressed husband and know how dangerous chickenpox can be)

Oh what rotten bloody timing.

Given it will be 5 days since he got his spots he should be ok to travel by Wednesday, but I wouldn’t take the risk of him getting really ill with it. We spent some time in intensive care & the little girl in the next bed was in with CP complications. She was so, so ill. I wouldn’t want to be in an overseas hospital with all the complications that entails, with a very ill child.

Obviously, if you stay home, he’ll be running around by Wednesday with no complications 😖

Home alone?!

It's hard OP but even if they did scab over, I'd be wary of going.

My DS had chickenpox. Most scabbed over but a couple got infected about day 6. Course of abx cleared that up but a week later he was in HDU with encephalitis. The virus had travelled to his brain and he was severely ill. This was after abx and the spots going away. I know this is an extreme and rare reaction but it's just not worth the risk.

Hope he feels better soon

What difference did the ferry make????

"What difference did the ferry make????"
Not breathing in recycled air.

Please, please read my post on the previous page. I had chicken pox as an adult and came very close to dying.

YABU but I think you know that

Claim on insurance and make the next trip a last minute one - and keep everything crossed.

I know someone whose LB died as a result of complications from Chicken pox whilst in holiday. I wouldn’t risk travel until 100% better. It’s what travel insurance is for. Ring them and let them know.

We had this last year (less exotic destination though!) Airline and travel insurance were really good and we went out 4 days later. I think you would be very u to go on Wednesday although it is a total pita kx

I can't believe you even have to ask. You're really willing to risk your child's health (people can get complications from chicken pox) and everyone else's to go to a place far from home? That's just nuts.

When DS got chicken pox we were due to go on holiday. We weren't sure what to do so spoke to the airline, they very clearly told us that they would turn us away if we turned up and our child clearly had any signs of chicken pox.
They did however allow us to change the dates of our holiday at no extra cost. So off we went on holiday but 2 months later instead.

No sick child would want to travel long-haul. It would be unfair on him.

You'll likely share planes with a couple of hundred other people. Ta horribly inconsiderate to expose anyone and recaklessly murderously dangerous to expose a person with immune complications, a pregnant woman or a newborn.

You son would have an undeclared pre-existing condition and travel insurance could decline to cover any complications arising from it if he needed medical attention in Bora Bora. You would be liable for all costs.

While chicken pox is very often mild and passes without significant complications, it is not without risk. You son could experience some very serious complications - do you really want to be dealing with that in a foreign country, with no travel insurance, where you don't speak the language and you wouldn't even drink the water? Yet you would be subjecting a sick child to this?

It is absolutely horrible luck but in so glad you are cancelling. You really have no other choice.

Yabvu. This is what travel insurance is for.

You even had to ask????

I caught chicken pox on a plane from an infectious child and I missed Christmas because of it

I hope he’s not going out when he’s infectious either.
This could have killed my dd when she was having chemo.

I hate bloody chicken pox. I have a dc who is immune compromised. We are currently stuck at home as it's too risky to go to nursery, clubs, soft play while chicken pox is doing it's rounds in our area. We have had to cancel birthday parties mire than once.

Do you have travel insurance op?