Cinema with chicken pox?

[toomanypushchairs]

One of my dt's has chicken pox, the other 3 children want to go to the cinema. Would it be awful to take him?

Its very contagious, and if there was a pregnant woman there she could pass it onto her baby, if she hasn't had chicken pox.

my older 2 had it years ago, I can't remember how long they are infectious for? today is the 6th day

until all the spots have crusted over.

thanks

i thought there was no recorded incident of it being passed on after 5 days

advice seems to really vary, thanks, will think about it

I'd say no - you are exposing too many people to it who may have a million reasons for really not needing it right now!

Having said that - I think they are most infectious before you even know they have it and are not infectious once they just have scabs.

I'd say no too. The risks to others - not just pregnant women but to any adult that hasn't already had chickenpox - are too great. Rent a couple of movies they haven't seen before, make your own microwave popcorn and have a movie day at home instead.

i'd say no too if spots haven't crusted over. really not fair to others.

nope wouldn't do it- not fair. chickenpox is usually mild but can be serious to some groups (including pregnant woman) so don;t think its fair to knowingly expose someone unless you can ask them whether they mind being exposed first of all.

You're not allowed to fly until all spots have crusted over so think an enclosed trip to the cinema would be unfair (especially as one of your others may be incubating it unless they've had it).

If it's more than 5 days after the spots first came out then it's not contagious - that's the NHS advice. Ds took several weeks for all his to crust over!

http:/NHS link here

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tortoiseshell that link says 'until roughly five days after.' The sixth day in my opinion is too close for comfort as toomanypushchairs isn't deciding for her and her children's health but for others.

didn't go to the cinema, went to see Grandma instead. have looked at the link, thank you. Next question now.... couldn't go and see Nanny as she doesn't want shingles. Am sure from when the older 2 had chicken pox that there is only one way it can be passed? Can you only get shingles from chicken pox, or only get chicken pox from shingles? Am thinking my mother is just paranoid!

You can only have shingles if you've had chickenpox.

thats what I thought, but am not sure that it can just be caught like c.pox. thought it was more like the cold sore, herpes virus? need to be run down etc, don't need to have been in contact with c.pox?

if nanny has had chicken pox then she should be fine. I think shingles usually crops up in the body from the cp you caught earlier that stays latent inthe body. Adn you can get it from someone else if you haven't had cp.

Shingles only occurs if somebody has already been infected with chickenpox previously. Once you have had chickenpox the virus lays dormant, this can however develope as shingles if you are rundown. The shingles lesions will usually follow a nerve pathway hence usually affecting one part of the body.

It is possible to conract chickenpox from somebody who has shingles but you cannot "catch" shingles from somebody with chickenpox.

HTH