CMs - would you take a child whose sibling has chicken pox?

[RunAndBeMum]

I have a child due to start with me, but her brother has chicken pox. I don't know what to do. Mum is still happy for her to start but surely she will definitely catch it, and then that puts my son and other mindees at risk. If my son gets it I'll have to close and potentially lose a lot of money. Has anyone been in this situation? What would you do?

But she may not catch it........at some point your child will catch it and you will have to close so perhaps to get it over and done with?

I had 2 mindees go down with it last year the other 3 had close contact and never caught it. you cant exclude for something they might get

Hard on you but agree with the posters, you cant really refuse for that reason, I would be shut half the time if I was trying to prevent us all catching stuff from mindees.

Hope you are lucky and this passes you bye.

The incubation is up to 21 days. You can't exclude a healthy child for that long. Or, if you did, I would find another minder I think. Sorry. I can see that it is a real nightmare. My DD went to school when DS had chicken pox.

I would take the sibling, but I may warn other parents that 'one of my mindees has been exposed to chicken pox'. Tough one, but you can't really exclude for this. I had 2 siblings and one caught chicken pox, the other didn't, but one of the mindees did.

I would also take the sibling. There is no guarantee the child will or will not catch it and you can't exclude "just in case". My DD has been exposed to it very closely on 3 separate occasions and hasn't caught it. I would however do what HSMM suggests and warn the other parents that there has been exposure.

I had a 21 day incubation period from last spot to 1 st spot from 1 sibling to the other for my kids .I thought we'd escaped it for my second child.

I don't think you can exclude due to a sibling but you can warn other parents.
as it was I was very lucky with our cm because on the days my son goes they had all had it so she was able to still take my son.

I can see where you're coming from but as others have said, you can't exclude 'just in case' a mindee gets the chicken pox.

I had a mindee whose sibling had CP and didn't exclude, sibling caught the CP and was then excluded. No other child caught them! I used very strict barrier methods of cleanliness when I knew mindee had been exposed and warned other parents that a mindee had been exposed. Not much else you can do I'm afraid.

By the time the spots come out, the child has been infectious for 5days anyway so could have passed it on in that time. I've been acm for 5yrs, my son also has been exposed to it several times and hasnt caught it yet. I wouldn't exclude for chickenpox.

Thanks for all the replies. The child has started with me and no-one's gone down with chicken pox yet!