Kids with chicken pox

[ohmydaysagain]

How is it that so many parents do not stay home with their spotty kids anymore? How is acceptable to just pop to the supermarket or take older siblings to school and let the ill kids run around the yard playing with the school equipment, some entitled parents go to the park or anywhere else they feel like! I get so annoyed when your kids are contagious just bloody stay at home! It's only around a week till the spots are scabbed and then you can go out again!

Yep I was in a restaurant the other week with a lady who openly said her kid had chicken pox...
Agree with you op unless it is absolutely necessary to go out you don't unless to a secluded place

I have to be honest, I have only ever noticed the CP hysteria on here.

I say this as someone who a) has never had CP and b) take medication to suppress my immune system.

I agree with not taking contagious kids out in public etc.... but a complete ban on them being outside at all isn't possible for everyone? I have 3 kids, if the baby was to get CP how do you suggest I take the older 2 to school?

• Obviously baby (well DC3 is 17 months now!) would stay in pram and I would't dither about but I simply couldn't keep her inside for the whole contagious period?

🙄 oh get a grip.

I live abroad and children here with chicken pox are expected to go to day care/nursery/school as long as they don’t have a temperature.

How that works out for immunocompromised people I couldn’t say, but it’s the official health department advice.

There's a difference between going out and going to restaurants , packed parks etc where your around pregnant woman or little babies long enough to pass it on ...
A walk or a quite spot on a beach where your not near people fine
It's called having some consideration for people that chicken pox can really affect

I have always kept mine home when they are ill relied on friends/family for the school run/childcare for work and done the same for the other parents but this past few weeks there has been an epidemic in our area. I have seen kids with obvious chicken pox not scabbed up at the local farm, in the shops, the cinema and at the park. The school run is hard but I'm sure if a baby had the pox it's not too hard to keep them in the buggy and away from everyone else! One child was sent into school with chicken pox as the mum had plans for a lunch out that day and didn't return to pick him up till home time despite numerous calls from the school, she was totally unapologetic about it. I just don't understand this entitled don't give a shit about anyone else attitude that seems to be becoming the norm these days.

There's certainly a lot more anxiety about CP than when I was a child, I had it (badly) at 6, as did most of my schoolmates.

In fact, I think it's only in the fast few years that there's been this much panic about it. When DD1 had it at 3 (she's 10 now), it wasn't really a big deal. CP parties used to be a thing; the idea was that it was better to have CP as a child than to avoid it and then catch it as an adult. (And both my DH and his DB had it as adults and it was horrendous, so people who say this do have a point.)

I certainly had no idea that there was a CP vaccine until after both my DDs had had CP (DD2 had it 3 years ago).

I understand why there's some anxiety about it if you or someone close to you is immunocompromised. But CP is actually most infectious before the spots come out, so you're in fact at risk when out and about anyway.

That's not to say that you shouldn't avoid taking your DC out in public if you know they have CP.

I also think some just don't realise
This lady in the restaurant said kids with pox weren't contagious once the spots came out but was only contagious for a week before they appear so the ' damage is done . Why shouldn't we go out ' was her exact words

We can't afford the pox jab for my little one and we are now 10 days post exposure to this child ...
Dp has a week of work next week and I am fully expecting dd to come down with pox next week as they was in close contact