To be absolutely livid that a mother brought her child with chicken pox to class?

[Elphie54]

My DD is 20 months. She goes once a week to a music class that she absolutely loves. Today one of the kids was ther pale and had the pox starting to spread across his face. I asked the mom politely and she goes “oh yes, both of my kids have it. It’s not that serious.” I internally screamed “no you daft bat, it is serious!!!” I mentioned it to staff, who have now emailed all parents on the roster that there was an exposure (I’m assuming after confirming with her, email did not say which child). We called DD doctor and they have her coming later for CP vaccine. AIBU to be absolutely livid?

I don't understand why, if people don't want their children to catch it, they are not getting the vaccine privately? I do understand that the cost could be an issue. You either want to vaccinate or for them to catch it young though right? Otherwise you are just delaying it and it can be more serious if they catch it as a teen or adult.

We were at a Theme Park in the Summer and there was a little girl there with CP. look thoroughly miserable and sat in a buggy. What on Earth are parents thinking. Yes it’s annoying and boring and dull day at home for 5 days whilst the spots scab over but you don’t know who you’re going to infect- pregnant women, imunocompronised, elderly, babies. Idiots.

I dont understand this, most children will get it, it is unavoidable, if it bothers you that much you are free to pay privately and get your children vaccinated. If you are not going to do that then surely getting it as a child is preferable to getting it as an adult. If this lady was Russian then perhaps she didn't realise how hysterical people in the UK get about it. Surely the vaccination would be included in the NHS programme if was deemed dangerous enough!

Obviously she should have stayed at home with her child but what are you hoping to achieve by avoiding anyone with cp?

It IS on the vaccination schedule here, and required for entry into public school.

It isn’t in the UK

Apart from the above, even if one thought it was a good idea to 'get it over with' and didn't mind their child being exposed, nobody would want to do that right now as the incubation would put the spots right in the middle of Christmas.

It's irresponsible however when my dd2 got chicken pox I got calls from other mums who wanted to bring their kids to my house to catch it (she had caught it from her sister, her friends parents wanted them to catch it before primary school the following year).

I ended up catching chicken pox when I was pregnant with my youngest because of an idiot thinking it was okay to send their child to school with chicken pox.

Its incredibly selfish. If people want to take their kids to others they know have it, that’s their choice but to take it upon yourself to decide when to potentially infect others is awful.

There could be pregnant women, immune compromised people or less seriously just people that would rather their child didn’t have chicken pox over Christmas or people that may be going on holiday soon, etc etc. I would be fuming. I hope the vaccination works.

Why would they have been wrong to notify everyone of exposure? What if one of those parents or children were immunocompromised?

Even if 'everybody gets it anyway' and 'it's better to get it out of the way'; yes, those are , mostly, true; but if you DELIBERATELY expose your child/someone else's to it, and then, tragically, there's the rare complications which do happen, you'd never forgive yourself.