To take child out with chickenpox

[10thlittlemonkey]

DD age 3 had chickenpox. Today is day 7 since they first appeared. She's loved the multiple pyjamas days but we are starting to go stir crazy! She had new spots appear yesterday overnight and I'm not sure any of us can handle another 5 days cooped up indoors. Other than spots she's here usual self (ball of energy!) I was thinking to go out for a walk along the river. Maybe grab a quick take away coffee and cake and perch somewhere outdoors. Thinking 'covid social distancing' style rules would apply here for our own sanity surely?
AIBU?

You have just been informed and the NHS has a nice easy yellow box

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chickenpox/

Important
Do not go near
• newborn babies or anyone who's
• pregnant or has a
• weakened immune system, as chickenpox can be dangerous for them.

Clearly you never had a moral dilemma as you had already set out an action plan.

The NHS has you the wrong way round I think

Nope. No re-exposure is required. Shingles is you body deciding to reactive the chickenpox virus that has laid dormant since just because it wants to! Happens a lot when you are run down etc, hence why it’s common in the elderly.

Chickenpox can be caught from shingles, but it requires contact with the actual shingles, rather than be airborne like chickenpox

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/shingles/

so maybe you need to get on to the NHS and tell them they have it wrong

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Shingles isn’t caused by being exposed to chickenpox, the misinformation on this thread is astounding. Shingles is your body randomly deciding to reactivate the virus!

Do you have a garden? This would be a better option than going out somewhere.

It is drizzling and cold today so hopefully you won't have met many people on your walk. I hope you have decided to walk one of the less walked routes of the country park and taken your own flask from home rather than using the take away coffee stand.

Absolutely no going inside, no going on the park and keeping huge distance from others.

I’ve already responded to a comment similar to yours.
You proved the point I was making to the OP, you presumed, but don’t know.
Nobody knows who is vulnerable to such an infectious virus and to risk it for the sake of “I don’t want to be cooped up” is ignorant and selfish of the OP.
Her replies since have convinced me she is in fact a selfish person and cares very little to the welfare of others.

Most are or should be as are many adults depending on immune status

Given she has very carefully thought about exposure and limiting that and being away from people outside and getting a coffee from a stand where she wouldnt be in breathing distance or even touch the person, wearing gloves as most people are today would mean shes not even touching surfaces, Im not sure how selfish she is.

Shes not really posing a risk to anyone in that situation, which she chose on purpose

Had she been going to soft play wiping her toddlers nose all over things, yes very different scenario.

What ‘physical protection’ are you on about?! Do you mean that normally someone who has chickenpox then doesn’t get it again? Because that isn’t how you get shingles?

Shingles isn’t caused by being exposed to chickenpox! Shingles happens when your body decides to reactivate the chickenpox virus for some unknown reason, but it’s very commonly at a time when you are run down, stressed, unwell and you taking 3 different immune suppressants would mean you fall into that category! It has absolutely nothing to do with be being in contact with someone with chickenpox!

I see some people are sadly displaying a common sense bypass on this thread. Please tell me where the danger lies in taking someone infectious outdoors to a remote place? What is going to happen?

Don’t let her touch stuff in play parks just to be safe. Don’t take her to a cafe or anywhere else indoors. Otherwise crack on and ignore the loons on this thread.

I wonder if it's something they only offer to adults.

My son was just re vaccinated for everything he had done as a baby starting 6 months after he finished chemotherapy.

And if there’s a queue at the stand?
Where I live, we have a coffee stand, there’s a “Mums with prams” group that go for long walks and end at the coffee stand. They’d be there queuing, nonethewiser that an infectious child is right next to them. Or is OP going to make her young child stand away by themselves? Unlikely.

She could have also chosen a drive-thru and then a long walk but is choosing the coffee stand instead.

Like I said, selfish and her replies prove it.

Outside walk, yes, go for it. Don't go anywhere near a cafe, playground etc.

I sympathise, it's a nasty illness, and keeping a 3 year old confined is hard work. But that doesn't change the fact that you should really really avoid people.

Good god woman - GO! Your poor child has been ignored all morning and must be desperate for her coffee, cake and a perch!

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And if there’s a queue at the stand?

It's outside, silly. You can't catch viruses if you're outside according to this thread.

Gosh I hope this isnt too obvious but, erm, wait until the queue has dispersed?

Its a raining cold February week day, there is not likely to be a queue and if there is, she would wait I would think.

You’d think it would be obvious but OP doesn’t seem to be the most patient of people.

It's £140 a child - £70 a dose. Much cheaper than taking unpaid leave or not being able to go on a holiday due to chicken pox.

I’d be worried even if you just used the local kiosk as you or your dd might need to use the loo.
You can’t leave her on her own outside if you need to go and if she needs to go she could infect others.

I took my toddler with chickenpox out to the local park but parks these days are always heaving with people, we did stop at a cafe and the service staff was not impressed at all. Life doesn't stop if you have an infection, if you're immunocompromised you stay at home but life will go on knowingly or unknowingly people will go out with infections it's on you to isolate.

You can't catch shingles from a child with chickenpox - the virus stays dormant in the body and is reactivated by age, stress and other illnesses.

We always get a few people per thread along with the antivax era who try and claim otherwise

DH caught Covid from a friend. They were just going for their weekly walk, outside.
The friend had tried to be very careful re infection as his dd was going through chemo but he still got it as did my dh a couple of days later.

Shingles can be triggered by contact with chickenpox
Shingles is far less contagious than chickenpox.
Many who are immune compromised either cannot have vaccinations or find them ineffective due to the nature of their compromised immune systems.

Most of us have had to work through the hell that is childhood diseases without taking them out to infect everyone else.

Perhaps you should have vaccinated your children against chicken pox - its been available privately for many years in the UK and has been a mainstream vaccination in many countries for as long.

Sadly there is no vaccination against self absorbed entitlement and lazy ageism.