To be mad that some woman took her infected child to Tesco covered in fresh chicken pox?

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Isn't it contagious like that??
I thought they had to be dried out.
What about people with compromised immune systems or very small babies.
She was with a friend buying sweets, not urgent!! Wtf!!
It is contagious like that isn't it?

If, on the other hand, you take the chance of infecting others in the full knowledge that you have disease or are incubating a disease then that that is an entirely different scenario.

Well then I guess that is us. Small child was in contact with other small child who was brewing CP. I wasn't going to throw a few grand away just in case. He had no CP when we left. Insurance definitely would not have covered that. He came out in spots once we got there.

Tesco do home delivery, last I heard.

Not on demand though.

kateandme - yes this would probably be enough to spread. The germs are carried like the cold and flu virus through bodily fluids and going kids often wipe their noses and put fingers in their mouths without washing before they touch things. The liquid in the spots is also contagious too so once they appear and scratch them they can spread until they scab.

It was unfortunate for my daughter’s class mates over Xmas as she came home from school with no spots but by bed time had quite a few. She’d been at school (Christmas play time too so lots of kids). She was unfortunately the spreader as 2 weeks later the rest of the class started coming down just as they finished for Xmas and some over Xmas. My daughter had caught it from her half sister. Her dad had tried to keep both children away from their sister when they were staying at his whilst she had the pox. They had to stay with him as I was working and he wasn’t. We thought she’d got away without catching them but it was about 3 weeks until she came out from first contact. Think first contact was actually before the skster’s spots appeared as I’d got a message warning me she had them. When my daughter’s went back to stay with dad the sisters spots had scabbed over so they’d caught from pre spots.

Yanbu. I caught CP when pregnant (from a child at the doctor’s surgery). It’s really serious. I was put on antivirals within 2 hours of my first spot and had many extra scans. We only knew if DS was fully unharmed once he was born, so had an extremely stressful pregnancy. Never mind feeling trerrible actually fighting the illness.

When my older DS caught it from me we took every precaution to keep him from spreading it. Yes, it is entirely possible to stay away from people for a week.

celticprincess thankyou

Are you sure it was chicken pox?

could someone answer me.if you have chicken pox and say go into a shop or playground etc.if your in the contagious stage and you touched things in that room/area.would this be enough to pass on the infection if someone else came along and touched the same things.does it carry in this way?

Yes it could. Chicken pox is an airborne disease.

I get really annoyed everytime we have a chicken pox thread.
A friend of mine caught it during early pregnancy. Her daughter is profoundly disabled as a result. She cannot walk, talk, see, she is oxygen dependant and needs 24 hour care. Her mum has dedicated her entire life to taking care of her for the rest of her life.
All because someone was completely selfish enough to go to a shopping with an infected child.

@moreginrequired if its difficult for you to stay at home, get your child vaccinated. its fairly easy ton prevent chickenpox.

It’s such a bastard of a thing because you can be spreading it like a sprinkler for about 2 full days before you know you’ve got it. Potentially you could infect loads of people. And then there’s a 6 week wait to see if they’ll get it. My baby was only 2 weeks old when we went to visit friends; her little boy broke out in spots just 2 days later. She couldn’t have cancelled, because she couldn’t have known.

However, once you know you/your child has it, then it’s a different ballgame! Any suggestion that it’s still contagious, and you just don’t go where you could bump into people. You don’t know who’s pregnant or immuno-suppressed or just plain never had it. And if it turns to shingles in someone, that’s bloody nasty

(My baby didn’t get it, by the way, which was amazing as apparently you have something like a 90% chance of catching it if you’re exposed, and her little boy was all over her. I was very grateful when the 6 weeks was up!)

Incubation period of chicken pox is 7-21 days, not six weeks, and you can't catch shingles from chicken pox.

I'm glad your baby didn't catch it. DD was a baby the first time she got it and it was miserable.

@wittyjack your baby probably didn't get it because they were protected by antibodies from you. Maternal antibodies last around 3 to 6 months so there's lower risk to a newborn of catching it than a 6 month old.

you can be Vaxed and still get chickenpox

Yes, as many people on the thread have mentioned. You are better protected if vaccinated in childhood, though.

I don’t understand posters saying “I have no one to take the other child to school”. You really know no other parents in the local area whom you could ask a favour from?

Yes, no vaccination is 100%. 97% (one shot) or 99% (2 shots) is a lot less likely though. there are also people who get chickenpox several times.Very possible, but unlikely.
IF staying at home for a week or so is something you would like to avoid, you can reduce the chances drastically.

YANBU advise is to keep the child at home. And the argument that it's better for children to get it young so don't complain is nuts, as it's not just young children who could be at risk in a supermarket. Clearly if you don't know they are infectious there's little you can do, but if you know they are then it's out of order.
For some chicken pox is mild, but for many it's horrible. If I could afford the vaccine for my youngest, then I would have it. My older kids suffered awfully (aged between 18 months and 7 when they had it) we had so many pox, on foreskins, in anus', vaginas, under eye lids, it's absolutely horrible and 4/5 days of no sleep (why you would take a child out in this period I've no idea) and then they have facial scars. Great.

I don’t understand posters saying “I have no one to take the other child to school”. You really know no other parents in the local area whom you could ask a favour from?

Not everyone does have someone they could ask but school have procedures in place. Ring the school, explain Child A has chickenpox and usually they will allow you to take Child B into the office five minutes late and collect them from the office five minutes early so that you don't have to take Child A into the yard.

For some chicken pox is mild, but for many it's horrible

Even children who get a mild/normal bout of chickenpox usually feel fairly grim during it. My eldest had it mildly - spots appeared on the Tuesday, were fully scabbed by Friday, and had disappeared altogether by the Sunday - but he felt rotten with a high temperature, sore throat from the ones inside his mouth (it was a struggle getting him to drink never mind eat), headache, and itching that was driving him loopy.

I live rural and genuinely don't have anyone who can do the school run. No one.

Oh for gods sake ... what was she supposed to do? Stay in her house and starve because her child has got chicken pox? Not everyone has got babysitters who can take care of their sick kids while they shop.

Yes, stay in! Or go to a small shop where you can park directly outside. Or send a neighbour
There seems to be this thing it's "just" chicken pox. Imagine if you had an immunosuppressed child and someone was out shopping with a child covered in fresh chicken pox...

I'd be grateful for my little one to catch chickenpox from another child as it's much easier to deal with while you're young and then you have lifelong immunity.

Getting it as an adult if you're not immune is a nightmare!

I was in hospital visiting a friend and a parent and child had to be esvorted out because she decided to bring her child with chicken pox to the FUCKING cancer ward because her daddy was there despite the fact she could kill every single paitant there she did not get why she was stopped from ebtering further and told to leave immidetly and had strop refused to leave and had ti be escorted out by sercuity....

@JuJu2017 there is a magic thing called food delivery. all
major supermarkeys do it. and small village shops are usually happy to be called, put stuff in a bag, bring it out and you just pay