AIBU to take child with chicken pox to an outside event today?

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Husband has one opinion and I have another. WWYD?

Day 5 of chicken pox for oldest child.
I have 2 other younger children with no signs as yet. But neither have had in the past so probably will get it.

Some scabs starting to form but also still some fresh spots.

Today is booked to go to an outside running event (for kids) this afternoon and we have paid £60 total for this with all children. It was booked mainly for the oldest one who loves to run, but the younger ones will also come and enjoy so I had to buy tickets for all. Outside run with parents, refreshments, few little stalls etc.

Unfortunately oldest one knows about event and has been excited all week - told him about it 2 days before CP started so didn't know to withhold the info.

Would you still take him? Planning on going just for the run, will try to avoid being too close to others. Don't know any other children / parents going so not going to be "chit chatting". Won't go to the stalls / mix and mingle. Will do run then leave.

Husband has one opinion and I have another. WWYD?

YADNBU

Please do because antibiotics would be a waste. Chicken pox is viral 😂

Pox doesn’t turn inward. Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?

She didn't get antibiotics for chickenpox you muppet. She got them for the infections she got thanks to the chickenpox.

Still not buying that she was seriously impacted by chicken pox twice.

Actually wasn’t doing it for any reason lol 😂 “ “ pregnant ladies “ just how I wrote it
sorry 😔

Chicken pox for most healthy children is a self limiting illness and not something you need to routinely vaccinate against. It’s valuable priming for a child’s immune system!

To answer the OP, no you shouldn’t take your child out somewhere crowded with an active infection. If you want fresh air, go to woods or somewhere secluded and away from other people.

I was exposed to a child who has active chicken pox on a holiday in Wales and I was 6 weeks pregnant then, my little one was diagnosed with hypoplastic right heart at 12 weeks scan. He came out at 38 weeks but sadly passed away at 4 months old. I know it could be anything that caused it but I cannot stop thinking that it can be one of the reasons. Please don't do it.

Chicken pox for most healthy children is a self limiting illness and not something you need to routinely vaccinate against. It’s valuable priming for a child’s immune system!

Hmmm, I would say that medical professionals across the globe disagree @AnxiousOCDMum

It is most odd to me that CP is seen as some childhood passage rite. I remember having it some 35 years ago. It was horrible, I was unwell and deeply uncomfortable. I remember my parents trying to sort child care.

What rot that we should just shrug our shoulders and treat it as something we cannot avoid, when we absolutely can avoid it - and so many countries do.

Why?

Absolutely not. How selfish.

Because becoming seriously unwell is very rare. Getting it twice rarer still. Getting it twice seriously, no way.

And because until the poster found out that antibiotics don’t treat viral infections she claimed that was the treatment given by doctors for chickenpox 🤣

Suddenly it’s for another infection and the poster is calling people muppets. The situation described is extremely unlikely and the kid with “inward, external, heartbreaking vaccine issues” is impossible. The posters with minimal scientific knowledge do stand out on these threads.

To be fair , I was diagnosed with chicken pox 7 times as child and later found out it was actually an intolerance . Unless you have been tested then there is no way of knowing . And nhs won’t test . I had to go private

I would go. Seem to be in the minority though

The cost being cheap is subjective. I don't have £300 to vaccinate my two children and if I did have £300 I would spend it on food or getting them some summer shoes as that is a far more pressing issue than chicken pox

Due to having it twice close together and because she got really ill she had to get blood tests done to rule other issues.

You know when you watch one of those zombie apocalypse movies and there’s that one person who’s like “no, it’s just a little bite, I’m definitely not turning” and then everyone dies and you think no one could be that stupid. Then you see posts like this and realise people suck 🤣

What utter bollocks.

What do you think vaccination is if not 'priming their immune system'?

I've seen children brain damaged and killed by chicken pox. My niece has needed plastic surgery as her facial scarring was so severe.

I had DD vaccinated privately the same day as she had the MMR on the NHS.

My other sibling decided it was too expensive to vaccinate his children. Suspect it was a lot cheaper than the 4 weeks annual leave they had to use up when they got it consecutively.

You can book online in Boots and it's £150 for the two doses.

I showed this thread to my mum, who's a GP, and I gave her reply earlier - if you are someone with an unusual susceptibility who fails to develop immunity from a first bout, it's not at surprising that you would have a serious reaction twice. In fact, according to her, the second time could be worse as you're re-provoking your already faulty immune response with a second exposure.

Re the chicken pox trying to go internal post, she said it would be impossible to make that as a determination as, if the virus is in your body, it's throughout. If, however, your immune system is weakened, it is possible to develop internal lesions. Also, as she said earlier, if your system is already weakened, simultaneous vaccine plus exposure to the virus could potentially impact as a double whammy and make you quite ill.

But both scenarios above are unusual.

Thankfully, you are.

Are you usually irresponsible?

You don't have to.

What medical qualification do you have then?

Well it's clear you don't!

I don't think anybody doubts that you saw the child seriously ill, but you seriously misunderstood the problem. The whole internal vs external thing is complete nonsense.

I was so ill when I had it that a friend came to stay to look after me and my dog. I could barely walk as far as the bathroom for a few days.

The neighbour who gave it to me was a teacher, too. She was nearly hospitalised, she was so ill. She was a fair bit older than me, in her early 50s. For the first few days I was ill, her lovely husband got my shopping and walked my dog!