Chickenpox and park visits

[giveusabreak]

DH is adamant (on the basis of no medical training whatsoever) that we are fine to take DCs to the park. #1 has just developed spots today but otherwise well #2 is whingy and will probably get it tho no signs yet. I read the NHS website and interpret "infectious" as meaning you keep them away from other kids in general. sharing swings and slides probably means she would pass bugs on so we shouldn't do it. I know we've been relaxed about mixing with other kids with CP but we have always been given the choice in advance. If you take them to the park then you are effectively just letting them pass on the bugs without other parents having a say. He says the DCs will go nuts stuck at home for a week (we do have a garden) which I think is him being selfish not wanting to be stuck with whiny little children

I'd stick to places where there are unlikely to be other children, ie you are right, he is being a bit thoughtless.

Are there any open spaces you could take them on a longish walk, with buggy etc...where there are less likely to be other families in close proximity?

nope their parents won't thank you for it and as it is airborne your ds1 could easily pass it on.

As I thought he can be a selfish git at the best of times . I am going to take them into the countryside. the joke is that he is back at work on Tuesday so it is me not him who will have the bulk of the childcare of miserable bored scratchy children

Typical eh

Hope it's not too bad for you x

My dd1 has just got it..... dd2 had it for the last week of Easter Term.... Tis v depressing!

Its not so much the other children you need to be concerned about but parents. Chickenpox can be dangerous for pregnant women for example.

In your shoes I'd take them for a walk somewhere where you're not going to be in contact with people -a walk in the woods, the countryside, a deserted beach ( it depends where you live really -I used to take DS for walks on the common).

A park is likely to be busy today, lots of children and adults that could be exposed to the chicken pox virus through close contact

DD has got chickenpox too (she's just woken up covered in spots). I'm going to have to rethink our trip to the Natural History Museum tomorrow!