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Chickenpox woes

45 replies

Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 11:50

So been worried the last few weeks seeing the amount of children at DS nursery with the pox spots and low and behold he came back from nursery no day with the dreaded pox. I've got the gels lotions etc and have been advised to keep him off the rest of the week from nursery. Here's my issues...... AIBU to take him a walk into town? Maybe grab a McDonald's to take home for lunch etc? I have so many little bits and pieces to get .... And my DP doenst return from work until after 6pm. Is it unadvisable? We've been so bored the last few days as we can't enjoy the garden as he's never been a fan of the heat.... so it's been board games cartoons going on the tablets etc. We are both going stir crazy!

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SheldonSaysSo · 05/07/2018 12:29

Maybe if you tell us how old your DS we can suggest some ideas to help with the boredom?

moreismore · 05/07/2018 12:31

I’m not quite sure why everyone is angry at you instead of angry at your GP surgery who could have taken the time to advise you over the phone or direct you to where to find further advice online etc.

Hopefully you’ve had enough helpful comments to know what’s what now!
Hope he feels better soon.

Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 12:46

Hes 4. And would spend all day on his tablet if i let him!

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Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 12:47

Tesco sweets??

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PitterPatterOfBigFeet · 05/07/2018 12:48

I don't think we have to have a go at OP just for asking as long as she accepts that no she has to keep her child home.

Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 13:04

Oooooh He's definitely staying home. That of which I'm Sure!

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bruffin · 05/07/2018 13:26

Just a warning about not taking to GP
I took DS to the GP and was kept in back office, two weeks later DD came down with it and as I knew it was CP so didnt bother taking her.
19 years later DD has decided to do Camp America and a week before she is due to fly out they suddenly want proof she had chicken poxs. Its not on her medical records. I did tell her to send a picture of her pox scars
We was ringing round London on a bank holiday weekend trying to find an immunity test that we could get back in time. It cost me £60 for the test and us quite a few days of stress.

On a more serious note, the day before DS's spots came out we bumped into a little girl with leukemia in Tesco and they played in one of those helicopter rides. I had to ring her mum to tell her about DSs CP and she had to take her DD up to GOSH for the 4th time for the special vaccine (cant think of the name of it, but its not the normal CP vaccine)

DidimusStench · 05/07/2018 13:39

Sorry for swearing OP. I try not to bite on posts such as yours however, today I was unable.

I’ve seen plenty of kids and adults suffer very ill effects from CP. A few have even died. It’s not as uncommon as you’d want to believe. I get exasperated with the naiivety.

You know CP is contagious, you wouldn’t have been advised to keep him ‘off’ if it wasn’t. Diseases don’t just spread in school. They spread on the street, in Tesco, McDonalds... contagious diseases are contagious. And so you see, as an HCP, I get a bit Hmm when people say ‘but I only need to...’. The disease is still contagious and CP isn’t one that people come into contact with all the time, like the common cold for instance.

@bruffin FWIW you probably would’ve paid more than £60 and had to wait a couple of weeks for a GP to fill out a health declaration to say your DD had chicken pox. Health declarations in my area are around £80.

heatwave2018 · 05/07/2018 13:40

I hope this is the chicken pox troll again. If not you are disgusting not only do people not want to see your child with chicken pox but you can make a lot of vulnerable people very ill by going out! Only go out if an emergency! Don’t force the illness on everyone else

bruffin · 05/07/2018 13:44

Didimus

We already had the health declaration, which said no to chickenpox, which is why we had the problem. We had that months ago and only cost £26. The reception lady wanted to charge £150 Shock but then said she would see what GP said. Then DD spoke to admin and they said no only £26
Also had to source Hep B even that was close and cost £160 but she needed that for her uni course when she gets back as well.

youknowwherethecityis · 05/07/2018 13:46

OP came here to ask if they could. Everyone (pretty much) said no. OP has said they are taking this on board and won't be going out.

They didn't know, so asked here (which is sensible) now they do know so no one needs to have a go at her.

DidimusStench · 05/07/2018 13:52

I sympathise @bruffin private medical bills rack up before going abroad for a lengthy time! I had to do the same but for TB as I had the BCG as a baby but there was no record of it being done. Hassle all round!

Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 14:21

I'm no troll. Just stupid! We are currently watching toy story and after we are going to sort out his room and maybe do abit of a clear out. That's good for thought 're getting it on his doctors records for later life. Cheers for the advise.

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TheSandgroper · 05/07/2018 14:36

Hello OP.

LoopyGreen mentions the young, the pregnant and the elderly. Bruffin makes the point about a girl with leukaemia. Anyone who is immunocompromised is at risk. This may include those who haven't yet had chicken pox or those who have had chicken pox that has since been negated by further treatment (eg chemotherapy).

These people aren't always obvious in your community yet you stil have a responsibility towards them because, there but for the grace of God, go us all.

DM had chicken pox (after a severe case in her teens) after multiple bouts of chemo. Whether this was because she came into contact with the virus again with no immunity or whether her perhaps expected dose of shingles didn't quite eventuate, we will never know.

What I do remember is that we went into the hospital a few mornings in a row to be told how close the ward was to ringing us in the night to get in quick as the wonderful nurses were fighting for her life. She was in rigor for six days and needed extensive OT to swallow and talk. She died six months later but she never came home again.

That's a thought I have never allowed myself to think in the past 10 years.

I will also point out that if DD hadn't already had her scheduled vaccinations, neither I nor she would have been allowed in to visit (airlock ward and all). We had to ring the Flying Doctor and tell them that they had carried a patient who had been diagnosed with chicken pox.

You have chicken pox in your house. It is unlikely to last forever. Stay home.

Semster · 05/07/2018 14:44

19 years later DD has decided to do Camp America and a week before she is due to fly out they suddenly want proof she had chicken poxs. Its not on her medical records. I did tell her to send a picture of her pox scars

Yes - when we moved to the US we had to prove to various schools that my children had had chickenpox. Luckily I'd taken photos of them when they'd had the pox, and I showed them to our US doctor who wrote a 'To whom it may concern' letter saying they'd had chickenpox, which we keep with their vaccination record.

OP - hope your son is feeling better soon and you're not too bored.

Hisnamesblaine · 05/07/2018 17:04

I've took loads of photos. Would it be worth ringing the doctors and asking them to put it on his medical files?

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iklboo · 05/07/2018 17:39

If you've not had it OP I hope you don't catch it from your LO. I got it from DS when I was 40 and was really quite poorly.

teraculum29 · 05/07/2018 17:41

its highly contagious,and if u didn't had a pox as a child I m afraid u will have it too. soon

BlitheringIdiots · 05/07/2018 17:50

Don't go out. Stay home.

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