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?

@soupdragon

What about single mothers?”

“You make it work”.

Ignorant statement at best. Not everyone can manage to “make it work” and not take their young child out once. My mother was working full time and no one looked after her kids other than her and the childminder, who couldn’t take us when ill.

Chickenpox parties do make sense.

It's better for children to catch it younger, and the alternative is an expensive vaccine.

Only a tiny number of children catching chickenpox suffer serious consequences, and they likely would suffer more if they caught it later.

What if you have a baby with chickenpox and have to take your older child to school?
You are most infectious before you even break out in spots so it makes no difference being out and about. It’s out there.
I thought everyone knew this?

Er… it is wise to expose children to the chicken pox virus when they are children, so they will become immune.

Er... No it's not, Just get them vaccinated.

The chickenpox vaccine is relatively expensive, especially if you have more than one child.
It's part of the cost of having a child imo.

Naturally acquired immunity is thought to be lifelong, whereas it is suspected that immunity via vaccine may diminish with time.
No evidence of that whatsoever.

I agree absolutely that chicken pox should be isolated but sometimes just sometimes needs must and if she needed something urgently the. She needed it.

People are stupid. When DC1 has CP he was well enough to be looked after by my parents for a day. I came back from work to discover that, because it was Thursday and that's the day they go to Tesco, that they had gone to Tesco. With him. Both of them. Words were had but it was too late by then obviously. It hadn't occurred to them.

Chickenpox parties do make sense.
No, they really don't.

It's better for children to catch it younger, and the alternative is an expensive vaccine.
The vaccine isn't that expensive for the average family, £55 will get you the first dose which make most 97% protected. Save up.

The vaccine is out of the reach of many families.

If they had money to throw at vaccinations, there are probably a few they'd prioritise over CP.

You keep on making excuses.

I had the vaccine (2 doses) and still got it, albeit a very mild strain.

I managed to keep both myself (and DS who kindly gave it to me ) quarantined for a week. You make do, there are pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems for whom chickenpox can be lethal.

My daughter got chicken pox when she was about 6/7, she ended up in hospital. On call doctor was on the verge of calling an ambulance for her. It's not something to fuck about with.

Are you absolutely sure they were chicken pox spots? And not bites? My ds once broke out in spots right before we were due to fly . I panicked and took him to doctor and he said they were bites, but they looked very very similar to pictures i'd seen of pox spots. They had pretty much gone the next day luckily so definitely wasnt the pox.

Don't be so fucking ridiculous. If we were wary of every person we walk past and every potential ailment we would never go out. How are single mums meant to do their food shop? Get a grip.

People cannot stay in for over 7 days isolated

I've stayed in for 2 weeks (adult CP)
I've stayed in with DS for 10 days (his CP)
I also stayed in (hospital) with DS for 10 days

I've also stayed in for over 10 weeks (abusive controlling ex)

YANBU however your argument about if the old lady gets ill is- by your logic nobody with even slight cough would be able to step foot outside their house.

How are single mums meant to do their food shop?

Online shopping.

I've been immune compromised. CP could have killed me. Some of the ignorant attitudes on this thread are astounding.

Seriously. Someone above posted It makes no difference being out and about!? I thought most educated people at least knew you dont go and and about with chickenpox.

If you cant afford to take a week per child off work you have to vaccinate.

Will even posters here saying theyve lost babies due to others carelessness not make people think :(

Seriously Chocolate!?!? Online shopping or you have to ask someone on facebook etc to drop a bag of shopping round.

Most mums have been there and stayed in a week with their kids and know the drill and Im sure most would help someone out stuck at home. My husband worked away but I stayed home with both mine!

Had the spots crusted over? If they had then there is no longer a risk of infection.

You are contagious for 2 days before the spots break out, so in all fairness, there could have been another child in the supermarket without the spots who was just as contagious and you'd never have known.

I was a single parent, in the days before internet shopping, with no family locally, I had no choice but to take my sick DC out to get food, as between them they had spots for 3 weeks. I went late night shopping and did everything I could to stay away from people. It was a truly awful experience and I felt like a modern day leper.

The thing with this is the people who risk contaminating others don’t live with the consequences. So the mother at a later point may say to others “oh I took little Freddie to Tesco and it was fine” but they have no idea whether they have infected others or how many.

An aquaintance of mine attempted to fly home their child who had had CP for 2 days and attempted to conceal it from staff. There was lots of outraged posting on facebook when they were rightly turns away at the gate when it was spotted. But god know how many people they could have already infected on the train there, check in, departure gate and the reverse journey when thy had to go find a hotel. Wildly irresponsible. And the parents are well educated.

One of my nieces caught chicken pox at a pox party with her cousin and bro

Dn1 has brain damage and can’t live independently
Dn2 (the original poxer) is degree educated and a mum to 2

Dn1 MAY have reacted the same way to accidentally catching the pox. The guilt has destroyed her mum who is now a druggy alcoholic

I totally get the immune compromised thing.

I’ve had my children vaccinated.

I still think the most ignorant attitude is that you have to keep isolated for up to two weeks.

If you have a baby with the pox and kids to get to school you just have to get on with it! Not everyone has an army of friends with space in the car for someone else’s kids!

I still had to take my youngest on the school run when he had CP, there was no one else to have him. But he was wrapped up in the pushchair, didn’t go near anyone. But taking them round the supermarket? No. That’s just stupid.