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?

You do know supermarket delivery isn’t on demand? I don’t understand why people keep saying that despite it being obviously useless. If you’re happy to wait 2 days for your vitasoothe then yes, home delivery can help even amazon prime would be next day in most areas

Very irresponsible, My child had cancer, and for a very long time they had no immunity due to chemo, and contracting chicken pox could of been extremely dangerous.

I would keep them away from crowded places quite often, however many parents in my situation were not as cautious as me.
If you know your child is ill with the flu,chicken pox, etc keep them at home until they are not contagious anymore!

Wow some post are over the top here. The woman shopping for sweets lived in a house where she didn't have a single scrap of food in and would immediately starve to death. She could not get food delivered from any shop or takeaway. She has not a single friend or neighbour who could help either. So if she herself comes down with adult chicken pox and is literally unable to get out, they'll all starve?

There seems to be this thing it's "just" chicken pox.

For people that don't read sites like MN that's not really surprising. Even the NHS doesn't make much of a deal about it.

A good friend of mine works in the children's unit in a hospital, she has seen children die of it on her ward. She and her colleagues have had their children vaccinated because they've seen how bad it can be.

She advised me to get my DC vaccinated, I listened and did. I'm glad I did, about 18 months later CP went round my DC's school, ours and 5 others were the only ones not to get it. Talking to those parents their DC had also been vaccinated.

Two of the children in the school ended up in hospital.

Where we live the vaccination is now on the standard schedule. It's bollocks to say the vaccination wears off, it hasn't even been around long enough for that data. So people saying that are not talking facts.

The only reason it's not on the UK schedule is cost.

They had the MMRV ready to go but because of that cunt Wakefield they didn't didn't think people would be open to it.

Primal - they only did to me when I was diagnosed that if I come in contact knowingly I must immediately contact haematology. But it does say on the NHS site to avoid elderly, immunosuppressed etc

I'm well aware of all the risks. Unfortunately when my son had it had to take him to the docs for an infected spot then into the chemist to pick up his antibiotics. It was completely unavoidable. I also popped into a supermarket fir essential shopping straight after It was the only time I took him out but with no one to watch him there was nothing else I could do, he needed his medication and I needed to feed my kids.

But at the Dr surely you were in an isolation room?

Any pharmacy will deliver medication, you could have handed it in, asked for delivery and left.

Food is a bit harder, there are online deliveries and often a local corner shop will deliver the odd loaf of bread or a bottle of milk.

But it does say on the NHS site to avoid elderly, immunosuppressed etc

But not in as strong terms as discussed here. Avoid, not stay in isolation.

I was in the doctors waiting room when a woman announced she had chicken pox. After I had been sat there for about 15 mins
Never seen a nurse find a side room so quick to get her in, and I ended up waiting outside. TBH at the doctors I usually stand outside and they'll shout me as it means avoiding bugs etc a bit
A&E too but I usually get put straight in a cubicle

the UK seems to be alone in inflating the largely theoretical risk of an increased prevalence of adults contracting shingles, which is mitigated by allowing the virus to circulate amongst children.

I wonder if they are saying it's a risk because they don't want it (due to cost) on the schedule and people might start questioning why it's not. I question their reasoning when so many countries do have it on the schedule. My NHS friend told me they had had meetings about it, but then costs were prohibitive.

@yura Both my kids had chicken pox (one hospitalised) why would I vaccinate them?

Not all of us have delivery available or friends/family close by....

As for Nhs advice, it’s written for the lowest denominator and ignores the most rudimentary virology, you are significantly more infectious pre spots not once you have them

We had ours (DC and I, as I found out I had no immunity to anything when I was pregnant (my mother didn't get our vaccines done, twat)) done privately, it was about €60 iirc. At doctors but we had to pay. 2 years later it's now on the schedule.

It makes no sense why in the UK you can't have it at the doctors, no sense at all.

They had the MMRV ready to go though didn't they?

We also got the DC the Men B vaccine. Again at doctors but we had to pay.

Can't believe how many people haven't heard of chicken pox parties

Isn't it like an early example social level vaccination plan that's been extremely common, in many countries and cultures for a long time?

Some of the responses to it itt are like little microcosm examples of antivaxer "logic"

an early example social level vaccination

It's an early example of stupidity.

I had chicken pox as an adult at the age of 47. I nearly died as I developed encephalitis. As a result I have gaps in my memory. I was off work for three months.

This was because some entitled parent felt that she could bring her poxy children to a party and not mention it. I only discovered this after I recovered. I wish I had sued her for my loss of earnings.

I developed chicken pox on holiday as a child. We continued to do all the normal things like trips to beach, towns etc. I was taken to pharmacy, then doctors, there was no advice given about stay inside.

Gosh!! Maybe they thought it was obvious.

Maybe mumsnet or the nhs should do some sort of public information campaign.

Some people really aren’t getting it are they?

Yes, your CP infected child WILL infect people before the spots appear. Not much you can do about that.

Yes, if you have no one else to care for your child while you pick up their prescription then you have to take them in - good chance they WILL infect others, and there’s not much you can do about that.

However, if you take them on non-essential trips, including to buy sweets from the supermarket with a second bloody adult, THEY WILL UNNECESSARILY INFECT PEOPLE THEY OTHERWISE WOULDNT HAVE COME INTO CONTACT WITH.

Just because they’ve already potentially infected 50 people (for example) doesn’t mean there’s no point preventing them from infecting another 50 people.

Why is this so bloody hard to understand?!

Just feel sorry for the child being taken out of their unwell with chicken pox

I was going to post about this.
Chicken pox is rife here.

There was a family at a playpark we were at with a toddler covered in non crusty chicken pox spots, then another in the cinema a few days later (I left), then yesterday at a farm park there was a boy on the bouncy castle covered in them..
My kids haven’t had them so I don’t know the etiquette but I assumed you kept them in until crusted? Or at least go places like woodland walks away from other children surely?
My neighbour covered her sons chickenpox in foundation on the second day and went on a flight to Portugal because she didn’t want to miss her holiday!!

Honestly think people who do this kind of thing should get fined or something.

It is very easy to cancel a holiday due to CP. travel insurance covers it with no issues.
We were due to go on a cruise when my DD came out in it and we got the money back no problem.

Poor poor child having to have foundation put on his spots.