Chickenpox bollocks

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One of the babies in our friendship group was diagnosed by a GP with chickenpox. The mother has decided on the same day that the GP is wrong and it’s some other, non contagious rash. To back this up she got another doctor OVER THE PHONE to diagnose her baby with another rash, and say it’s not chickenpox. How this is possible I have no idea.

AIBU to not want to meet for lunch with her and her baby next week as I do think the baby has chickenpox and I don’t want DS to get it!

Of course YANBU.

YANBU. Why are people so weird and/or stupid about chickenpox?!

Just cancel. The woman's not worth risking a chicken-poxy xmas for, right?

If your child catches this; the chances are it will develop into chicken pox slap bang in the middle of Christmas. My DS was quite ill when it initially came out on him, achey, shivery,generally wingey and wouldn’t eat. Not fun. I would stay away.
Ps- the mum sounds like a nob.

Chickenpox is pretty obvious usually.

And no, I wouldn’t deliberately expose my D.C. to it either.

Although your friend sounds like a nob if it is the pox and the spots are already all out the risk of infection will have been last week, by next week they won't be infectious any more.

Interesting responses - our other friends in the group don’t seem to have a problem with meeting up and seem to have just accepted her baby doesn’t have pox.

Well that’s fine for them. This isn’t a “go with the majority opinion” decision though.

You decide for your child. What anyone else does is irrelevant.

So basically she doesn’t want her Christmas plans ruined by chicken pox so will risk ruining other people’s.

Who goes to a dr for (non complicated) chicken pox anyway!?

Chicken pox is so obvious. Have you seen the rash? If it's pox it'll be scabbed and fine by next week. Both of my kids were scabbed over in 5 days.

Isn't chicken pox most contagious in the days before the spots break out? So if you have seen them recently, you may well have already caught it.

Regardless of whatever nasty rash it is, I wouldn't be wanting my DC catching it, so would stay well clear.

YANBU I’d be avoiding her for a while! Honestly, chickenpox is fairly easy to identify so I’d say if the GP says it’s that then it definitely is.

As another poster said people can be very weird about CP. I know someone who posted on fb that she was having lunch in a packed Wetherspoons with her DS about a week before Christmas a couple of years ago. Who had just come down with CP a day or so before. Someone queried this. “Oh don’t worry it’s ok, I’m a nurse” was the response yeah sure that makes your Christmas shopping and lunch out much more important than everyone else’s health.

Interesting responses - our other friends in the group don’t seem to have a problem with meeting up and seem to have just accepted her baby doesn’t have pox.

Nah, they probably have had the vaccination or already been through it. They're just not telling her that.

Yanbu, cancel your plans if the baby isn't scabbed over.