Would you take a child out who has chicken pox?

[ruvyallan]

Like out to shops etc?

Absolutely not.

If no longer contagious - spots crusted over - yes

Otherwise no it would be incredibly anti-social to take a contagious child shopping.

No

No!!! Obviously....

Have they scabbed over? If not, no.
We have a terminally unwell child in our family and contact would probably be fatal to him.

No.

You have to ask?!!

stay in. Just stay in for the time required.

No, unless they're at the no longer contagious stage.

No! Chicken pox can be incredibly dangerous to some people and pregnant women.
It's very very selfish to take them anywhere until spots have crusted over.

No. Mine felt unwell with it, so no.

Obviously not if the spots were not crusted over.

No

Not until they are crusted over. My DD has just had it and we are on obsessive spot watch with the other two. It took a week from the first spots till she was crusted over enough to go out. The only issue we had was needing to go to the pharmacy to get her antibiotics but I asked a neighbour to watch her for me in the end

I suppose some parents have to: as Covid taught us, not everyone has family and friends who could bring them food and essentials.

Not knowing much about childhood illnesses or children as I don’t have them, isn’t chicken pox only transmitted by very close contact with the unscabbed blisters? So not a huge risk in a shop?

Not to the shops if they're still fluidy, no. We did go to the woods one evening though, to get out of the house.

You legally can, truthfully it would depend on what I needed from the shop and if the husband was home to have DS. If I need something like calpol or virasooth for him yes without a doubt if no one could go or watch him I would take him to get what he needed.

Are you sure the spots haven't scabbed off you just saw them. DS was vaccinated when he got it and was scabbed really quickly

Not unless there was no other option: they were too little to leave on their own, we had no food/meds/nappies in the house and no way to order from Uber eats or similar, no one to leave them with.

I’ve witnessed plenty of other selfish parenting when it comes to chicken pox though: the parents who took their pox-riddled children round the shop I worked in “because they were bored”, which caused my colleague to catch it and pass it on to her vulnerable toddler in time for him to have a much needed operation postponed.

Then there was the school mum who told me she’d taken her child Christmas shopping a week before Christmas in the nearby busy shopping mall while the kid was covered in them “because why should she miss out?” Without a single thought to other people having to cancel their Christmas plans because someone in their household came down with it too. Fucking dickhead is a nurse as well

Jesus! You really have to ask?? I am on medication that affects my immune system, if I come into contact specifically with chicken pox I could become seriously ill (I had to have test's/vaccines etc before beginning treatment) how irresponsible to even consider it!

No. Shingles seriously affects the elderly. CP affects those who are immune compromised, it can also seriously affect adults who haven’t had it.

No. DD had it just after we'd all had covid, which took three weeks to work through the household, and DH was away with work. It was a very long weekend but we stayed home.

No because it would be a stupid thing to do.

I would take them out into the fresh air where there weren’t other people, once they felt well enough to be climbing the walls. Not to the shops, playground, on public transport, etc, until spots have crusted over.

No, but why do you ask?

I've had to cancel a holiday and feeling absolutely gutted about it. A few friends are saying I should just have covered her up and took her but I felt I couldn't do that and have it on my conscience so just feeling very guilty at the moment. Daughter is in tears begging to go.

Once they have all crusted over then yes but not before.