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?

Only on Mumsnet would you find batshit attitudes like these!

@Arthuritis OK then, compare with the flu. Hth

And a person I serve said her daughter who was standing next to her, had just been diagnosed with scarlet fever!!!! Not sure of the implications of this but to immno suppressed people I don't ....

did she actually know it was chicken pox? My own mum told me I had heat spots and even I said she was wrong. I was 8. turns out I was correct.

@PramCush it doesn't help actually.

Chicken pox is airborne so can be transmitted through coughing, sneezing. Flu is mainly spread by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your own eyes or nose. So there's a lot that I can do to protect myself against the flu - vaccination, not touching my eyes etc, using hand gel, frequent hand washing.

It's not so with chicken pox. I can't protect myself against that. I rely on others to keep themselves out of circulation if they have it.

Ignorance like this is infuriating, you are definitely not BU ! Chicken pox can be extremely dangerous to some people. Bloody chicken pox parties !

The woman and child were there with a friend so spare me all the “the kid had to eat” handwringing - if there were a life or death situation revolving around the child getting sweets, the friend could have gone in, or stayed in the car with the kid, or gone to the shop for the friend in the first place. It’s one thing taking your sick child to the pharmacy because there’s no one to take care of them. This is quite another.

The attitudes on display in this thread lead to deaths - frequently? No. Does it happen? Yes, and your need for fucking sweets doesn’t negate that.

It’s attitudes like this that led my 5lb 7 week old preemie to contract whooping cough in nicu - who on earth would turn up to a nicu with a severe cough, whether they realised it was pertussis or not, I have no idea.

He started getting sick the day before we came home, less than a week before his 8 week jabs. A few days later I was calling an ambulance for him because he was unresponsive.

I was vaccinated while pregnant and they told me he was likely less severely affected than he would have been had I not been vaccinated.

People can prattle on about likelihood and minor illness and being contagious before you know it, blah blah blah... the point is, if you make non-essential trips out with a child that you know to be carrying a contagious illness that can be seriously harmful to some people, you’re a selfish piece of shit. End of story.

Haribo - they're not the most pleasant! I'm on lenograstim and I hate doing them because I know the side effects

I caught chicken pox from a customer's child where I worked as a Saturday girl when I was eighteen. The morning I was due to sit my first A-level I broke out in the pox. Predicted A-level grades - BBBB. Actual grades - DEUU. Twenty-eight years later it still makes me angry.

It's not so with chicken pox. I can't protect myself against that. I rely on others to keep themselves out of circulation if they have it.

there is actually a chicken pox vaccine.

To be honest you get exposed to a million things every day, everywhere you go. I can't get worked up about someone who is ill going out to get stuff. Soft play yes, supermarket, no.

And I'm pregnant - that's my issue, not other peoples.

Chicken pox is not airborne. It only gets transmitted /.. / by droplets from sneezing or coughing

You might want to check the definition of an airborne disease.

Anyone want my genes, I went to chicken pox party in the 70s no result. It went around my primary school still not a spot, I'm pregnant with DS2 and DS1 gets CP cue panic from my obstetrician blood test. Complete antibodies despite never having had it.

Apparently a few people are immune. However this means I wasn't aware that it can be a serious illness as my 3 were really mild .

To be honest you get exposed to a million things every day, everywhere you go

And just think how much less you’d be exposed to if people kept themselves at home when sick with something that can be a serious risk to people? It’s hardly bloody rocket science.

What is this story that the mum was there with a friend? How does OP know it was a friend? She knows jackshit! She saw 3 people shopping for sweets. They might have been old classmates and might have bumped into each other then and there.

And many people with a compromised immune system can't have the vaccine or it doesn't work.

Yep, just the kind of bullshit excuse I’d expect. Why are you so determined to defend this person - very defensive eh?

Living in the US it's so weird reading these threads.

In the 11 years I've lived here I've seen two children get chickenpox - neither of them were vaccinated. Other than that it's just not something you ever see.

OP - if your husband hasn't had chickenpox I'd recommend he gets vaccinated. It's not something you want to catch as an adult.

I haven't read the full thread, but I almost started this thread the other day. A woman was proudly telling one of the Tesco staff that her THREE children she had with her all had it at the same time (all covered in fresh spots, being dragged around the shop, touching EVERYTHING).

Wtaf is wrong with ppl?

This behaviour, and some posters' attitudes on here , are utterly vile and disgusting. Selfish, ignorant, and appalling.

I am immunosupressed, I will be for life.
My friends daughter is for the same.

Your selfish ignorant attitudes that It is acceptable to go out with a highly infectious disease = I could early die, and so could my friend's daughter.

Grow up, get educated, and feck right off with your attitudes that it's ok to go to a busy supermarket with an active highly infectious airborne disease.

You disgust me,

*early = easily

Who knew there was such a thing as a chicken pox party!!! Bet it gets itchy !!!!would you like a bottle of beer or is calamine more your thing!!!!

I took DD to dr with hers as we had been around pregnant relative and wanted to tell her for sure that’s what it was. It was confirmed and Dr said to stay away from playgroups, playgrounds etc but walking down the street and in a shop with child in buggy will do no one any harm.
I followed this advice as surely dr knows how it is transmitted, we went for a walk in the park one day(no one else around) and popped to the shop quickly another day - she was fast asleep with canopy down when she woke up I left and didn’t take the hood up until outside.
Reading this thread I feel terrible and hope I didn’t expose anyone.

I thought the NHS didn’t vaccinate as they want people to get it and it be alive in the community as when it isn’t and people rarely get it it is more dangerous?

Our nursery has just had the worst outbreak they have ever head, the sign on the door was up for months even some of the US children that had been vaccinated have caught it.