To take dd with chickenpox to playground?

[chickenpoxy189]

Dd2 (5) is on day 2 of chickenpox. She’s got lots of spots but isn’t ill at all and is getting very frustrated from being at home all day.

She’s got lots of energy, but we only have a tiny garden.

Would it be unreasonable to take her to a local playground tomorrow that is usually empty during school hours? It looks like the weather’s going to be really nice where we are.

Obviously we’d leave if anyone else turned up.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138821/Baby-boy-died-following-severe-bout-chicken-pox-doctors-sent-home-THREE-times.html

Sorry for the fail link but I'm at work. It really fucking pisses me off when I see posts like this!

My ds was severely immune compromised a few years ago. Cp could have killed him.

I barely took him anywhere on Drs advice, so I’d recommend what I did with him- walks in open spaces where nobody will be; our local nature park was perfect for running off energy.
Please don’t let your little one on the play equipment and risk others getting poorly. I think you’ve done well posting here because it shows you’re putting thought into it.

Hope little one is better soon!

@Irishgurl I am so sorry for your loss, you must have been so angry at her, knowing it was so avoidable :( I had a stillborn baby girl 8 years ago and it still hurts every single day.

And OP, you say "...we only have a tiny garden". You have a fucking garden.

This is a Daily Mail thing isn't it?

Oh irish
I'm so sorry.

My DD had cancer and some fucker thought it was FINE to go out and about with chickenpox. They probably thought that people objecting were virtue signalling twats.
Their kid was probably a bit bored and they probably had to work a bit harder to keep them entertained.
Anyway my DD got CP causing her unimaginable nerve pain AND masking the symptoms of relapse. Its the only time in the two years she was sick that she begged to be allowed to die.
So we spent her last ever New Year in isolation.
She died in the April.

So yeah, I'm with Irishgurl. Its as bad as the AIDs thing.

The park will be empty. Who on earth is she going to infect exactly? Its not the bubonic plague

DS1 was immuno compromised as a baby after sepsis, I had to be very, very careful where I took him. We ended up quarantined most of the time, mostly because of attitudes like that!

Ditto when my mum was going through chemo and radiotherapy. Some dickhead thought it would be fine to “pop in” with a runny nose and a wee cough. Nearly fucking killed her.

Same with the nursery mum who infected us all with a tummy bug about the time mum was dying which meant I missed precious days with my mum and supporting Dad. Because someone couldn’t be arsed to think of the bigger picture.

And according to the NHS site it is possible to pick up the virus from “inanimate objects” ie park equipment.

for all affected by seeing people they love suffer or worse because of thoughtless arseholes. I know it’s in no way close to enough, but it’s all I have.

So many people affected dreadfully by chickenpox and yet some parents think it is a 'minor inconvenience'. Thank you for your kind wishes. It was 12 years ago now but I still go cold when someone mentions the dreaded 'chickenpox' word.

12 years for us too Irish

I wasn't for a minute suggesting that a mother of a chickenpox child would infect some deliberately like the AIDS case in the news. I was just saying that the illness itself can be as devastating as AIDS.

I wouldn’t. When I had chemo chickenpox was specifically mentioned as something I should avoid.

I took my children outside for fresh air when they had it but not in a area they'd be likely to be in close proximity of other people.

What did annoy me is that I took my DS to an activity park when all his blisters had dried but he had so bad the poor thing, he still looked like he had the plague. One mum came to me and started shouting that I was selfish to take my son there. I tried to explain to her that he wasn't contagious any longer but she would not have it and was trying to get other people to agree with her. Thank God for me, my friend who was with me is a GP, so she could calmly confirm that he wasn't contagious any longer. Yes, I did feel quite smug at this point, but if she hadn't been there, I would have felt quite bullied.

Very unacceptable. How do you know all the adult helpers have ever had it?

For fucks sake! You sound like my FIL! He once stated that he should be allowed to smoke indoors around my children because it was safer than putting a hosepipe from the exhaust through the car window. Seriously! Ridiculous comparisons do not help an argument.

However, some others have given good advise OP. It's annoying as he'll having a child that is clearly not suffering from the infection running around the house (both of mine were like that) but it won't last too long. Better than touching the playground equipment and risk passing it on. However I'd consider a walk in the park, keeping the spots covered. I went to the forest with my two, where very few people were and made sure they came into contact with nothing that would pass on the infection when the 4yo was allowed to go back to nursery (but on her day off) and the 3mo had it.

Ugh and the ffs was at this comment!

This is just as bad as having intercourse with people knowing you have aids

Not the one I actually lasted in the other reply. Stepping away from the phone now!

Thanks all. I hadn’t realised that chickenpox could be spread by surfaces.

I think I’ll drive into the Chilterns instead then and let her run around on top of a hill with nobody else around.

@JAMMFYesPlease

I read the comment about AIDS to mean that the consequences could be just as severe, which is true.

Thank you for reflecting and listening.

My ds almost died from cp at 11 weeks old. He still has health complications as a consequence aged 4. It's a common childhood illness so we don't perceive how potentially serious it really can be.

Thanks for taking the comments on board OP.

Some sensible views on here today. And nice that it hasn't grown into a slanging fest.Hope your little one gets better soon OP.

Oh, just as an aside you cannot catch shingles.

It's a reactivation of the Herpes Zoster virus which is in your system after CP.

You cannot 'catch' shingles.

chickenpoxy189 hopefully this time will pass quickly for you both!

5 days in hospital on an antiviral IV when my baby was 7 months. Don't fuck about with chicken pox 👍

It is only 2nd day with chickenpox, children can suddenly become a lot sicker with it. Day four with mine he suddenly became quite ill, we ended up needing antibiotics, so please be careful, boredom is better than overdoing it.

So sad to read all your posts about your children Inadequate I know.

Just to add, where I am we now have frickin measles going about because some people won't vaccinate their perfectly healthy children.