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?

Like all the people walking about with Whooping Cough a few years ago. I caught it, and believe me, it is not fun as an older adult.

I took my son everywhere I went when he had chicken pox.

Single mum with minimal help, I wasn't staying in for 3 weeks!!

You are a perfect fool, then.

But people will catch chickenpox, it's generally better that they do it younger.

Adults catching it because they were not exposed or vaccinated as children will suffer more, and immune suppressed people will always be at risk.

It doesn't alter the fact that for the vast majority, catching it early or being vaccinated is the best case scenario.

Isolating perfectly healthy children from chickenpox is doing them no favours.

Chicken pox can make my son who has had a liver transplant, die. But as long as you are not inconvenienced hey...

Presumably you wouldn't take him to a CP party hungryhippy ?

If it's such an issue, stay indoors or get vaccinated.

I'm not going to be told to stay in for a whole week! It would have risked my mental health declining.

I hear you hungryhippie... I’m in a similar situation- chicken pox is one of the ones that would really do harm to my ds.. but hey staying in just ‘isn’t possible’ to some people..

Id - I'm immunosuppressed and work two jobs and can't be vaccinated. What do I do for the rest of my life then?

He cant get vaccinated cos its a live virus and it would give him chicken pox! And why should he have to stay in all his life cos some dick thinks its a good idea to take a child with chicken pox to the shops?

Some people are so unbelievably selfish and full of themselves... and we wonder why our world is going to pot....

@Ollivander84 stay in.

If people think it's okay to tell me I should stay in, shouldn't it work the other way round??

Sadly as humans, we pass things on.

What's to say if I went out alone, that I wouldn't pass the CP on?? You know......carriers

Same here hungryhippie.. but People like those on this thread have to have a life just they way they want it- they can’t possibly think about someone else for once and they just can’t possibly have their lives inconvenienced in any way... would be a VERY different matter if it was one of their loved ones put at risk by selfish behaviour

Yes but the difference is I would have to stay in forever. Not for a week or two

I think staying home for a week is a bit different than staying home for all of your life....

Cross post Ollivander

And actually, I do keep him home. If someone in his school has chicken pox, he is the one who comes home.

Sadly, there are risks all the time.

I could walk out and get ran over. I don't stay in just in case.

I didn't know when my DS was going to get it so I couldn't have planned and got everything I needed in.

I didn't have food.

Oh and FYI, he went to nursery with it because it wasn't actually diagnosed until his spots had scabbed (I took him to the doctor who told me it definitely wasn't CP).

In fact I'll post this, I wasn't going to. I spent 8 years being constantly ill and dismissed by doctors
It turns out I have a condition where I destroy my neutrophils, so effectively it's like when you become neutropenic on chemo
Severe is under 0.5, mine are 0.3

Once a week I inject a drug into myself that gives me severe side effects. I shake uncontrollably, get a fever, bone pain like the flu, can't stand clothes or the duvet touching me, faint, and have a 24hr headache. That's a whole day EVERY week for the rest of my life.
I do this so I can hopefully make more neutrophils and not kill them off

It's so rare in adults I am the only person my haematologist sees with it. In hospital I have a private room, I have blood tests every 12 weeks and spend the day in haematology

If I get an infection like last week when I had a UTI, I have to immediately go on antibiotics so I don't get neutropenic sepsis and die because I can't fight infection

There are no grants or benefits for this, I don't get free prescriptions and I work two jobs to pay my mortgage despite the weekly side effects and the shattering fatigue I get from my bone marrow working overtime. I'm entitled to no help whatsoever

I'll swap anyone this condition for staying in for a week with chickenpox. I was diagnosed age 31 so it can happen to anyone

Chicken pox is not a mild illness for all children. Wasn't there a poster on here a few years ago who's child almost died and was seriously ill for a while as it spread to their brain?

People can be fucking stupid and it makes me sick.

Nobody is saying stay in, just in case. You knew he had chicken pox yet still took him out, risking the lives of other people for your convenience. Total disregard to the lives of other people.

DS2 currently has chickenpox. He's scabbing up nicely now but he's been covered. I'm glad he's had it now at 6 years old as he's been spotty but quite happy in himself. DS1 takes immune suppressant meds and he's been absolutely fine thankfully. You do have to be very careful with chickenpox but I think some posters on here are being a bit OTT.

Ollivander that must be so hard

You are right Princess.. you only have to send a few weeks in picu ( as I have done with my ds) to know that and see the possible outcomes.. same with measles...
Ollivander- that sounds rough- I feel for you...
I also keep my Ds off if cp is doing the rounds on consultants orders...
taking a child out to a public place when you know they have a potentially dangerous infectious disease is selfish- people can make excuses all they like but it’s selfish. This is 2018- shopping can be delievered... this world is only going to get worse and worse until people step up and start thinking of others

Old and frail people cannot catch chickenpox if they have already had it.
Yes they can. Rare, but they can. Check the NHS website.
Oh, and people who are immunocompromised (I am so immunocompromised I have to wear a medic alert) can catch it if they've had it before and it's bloody dangerous.