Would you take your DS to School if your DD has Chicken-pox?

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DD is 2.5 has Chicken-pox.
DS is 6 and has recovered from it recently.

Would it be safe to take DD with me if I did the School run?

Would it be advisable?

What would you think if a mum at your child's school brought their child who had chicken-pox with them to do drop off and pick-up?

Could you arrange to take him half an hour late? It used to worry me when I had babies to be honest.

If she is in a pushchair (ie restrained from actively mingling) and out doors then I've seen it done loads of times and it doesnt bother me.

I had to do it myself a few years back, again I would agree if the child in question is in a pushchair the risk is prob alot smaller.

I had to do this 18 mths ago. I put the youngest in his pushchair and made sure the rian cover was down over him. Nothing else I could do really.

Was that even when it wasn't raining Manky?

Can't you get a friend or neighbour to take her and pick her up?

Sorry-him.

Yes, just when we were in the playground because we have to wait in close quarters with a lot of people...probalby didn't help but made me feel better about it.
People were ok about it, we were not the first ones to have to do it.
If I had kept eldest DS at home while the other two recovered he would have been off school 4 or 5 weeks intotal, including his own bout of it, as they all followed after each other!

in pushchair with raincover, tbh if your ds has just had it then it will prob be incubating in his class

I'd take him but get a teacher to meet me away from the class so we didn't have to minlge as we have a girl with cancer and nobody else who can do the drop off.

I did when the little one had it - but made sure we kept away from the crowds. Though tbh so many people said xxx hasn't had it - bring him over here so he catches it and we get it over and done with that I might as well not have bothered.

DS had chicken pox last week, and I had a very kind friend pick dd up and drop her off morning and afternoon si I didn't have to take ds into the playground. We currently have a lot of pregnant women in the playground so I didn't want to risk it. Obviously I was very lucky to have such a kind friend.

Plus ds got it from nursery and dd has been vaccinated so (currently) no chicken pox going around the school.

ComeOVeneer - You're right, there are so many couples who are trying for babies, and there are so many pregnant women around, sometimes it's not so easy to know who's pregnant and who's not. I don't want to risk it, but I may have to.
So far this morning I've asked a friend to drop DS into school this morning and pick him up this afternoon, but I'm not sure how long she can keep doing it.

Yes I did it - I just kept DD away from people (held her) and told everyone so that if anyone was pg / otherwise vulnerable they could keep more of a distance. It transpired that all of DS's class had already had it, bar one who has been repeatedly exposed and not caught it, so no-one was in fact bothered.

Whenever DH was at home I left DD with him, but otherwise I took her with me.

A friend of mine says it's not contagous(sp) when you're outside. It's only when you're inside that it's contagous. Is that right?

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Erm, no either you are contagious or you aren't. It is passed on by direct contact and inhalation of droplets so far easier to catch it inside rather than outside in a larger space with air movement to blow away droplets rather than inhale them.