Chicken pox!! Should we cancel/change holiday?

[elmo89]

So my elsest son who is 5 has just broken out in chicken pox in the last 2 days. We are due to fly to majorca on the 19th July for an 11 night holiday. I also have my youngest who will be 1 on Tuesday who has obviously been exposed to his big brother and most likely is going to come out in spots too. Problem is giving the timeline of 2 weeks since exposure is when the spots start to show it seems my youngest might start getting spots at the start of our holiday if he has caught them which apparently is super likely 🙈
Anyone any experience in the same situation?
What would you do? Would you risk it and go and hope for the best?

Or would you change to another date or next year in the fear of the youngest showing the symptoms on holiday and possibly being quarantined to a room in a hot country and possibly not being able to fly home?

Do you have insurance?

If so keep your plans as the insurance company will only pay out if your plans are disrupted by actual chickenpox not possibility of it.

Also as youngest is 1 go and get them vaccinated today. It about £70 but can work even after exposure.

Other option is getting your youngest vaccinated. I think the vaccine is still pretty effective if taken within 3-5 days of exposure

Eldest started showing spots on Thursday so youngest would have been exposed from Tuesday if I’m getting this right so I think we are too late. Also he isnt 1 until Tuesday so don’t know if that matters either

I’d get the youngest vaccinated tomorrow if I were you. £90 usually per vaccine, boots do it and if you’re local to West Yorkshire there’s a surgery in leeds that do it too.

Still do it. It could be enough to fend it off or make it very very mild.