Another Pox question!

[Elixiam]

We're in Spain, 15 month old has come out in chicken pox. We fly back Thursday night by which time it will have been 6.5 days since spots.. easy jet says it needs to be 7 days! So, would you just say it had been 7? All the info online i can find says 5-6 days after spots is not contagious and that's what it is for school etc, will we need a doctors "fit to fly" certificate even if all spots are scabbed?

Should I call my insurer now? In case we are unable to fly and also in case he gets worse and needs treatment because they may say I should have notified straight away?

Should I tell the hotel? It's been 3 days now and we've just been trying to stay away from people, going to the beach and sitting apart rather than the pool etc but as you can imagine that's a nightmare, we have two older children too (who have had pox)

Also would the insurance pay out for our holiday being ruined even if we can fly home as planned? We've hardly spent any time as a family and are all totally exhausted!

Hi, did you not tell your hotel straight away? How did you manage with meals? When dd got pix on holiday in Spain we notified the hotel and they brought meals to our room. She wouldn't have been well enough to even go to beach at first

From what you've said, I get the impression that you'll be flying home irrespective so it's a moot point. What you should have done is tell the hotel straight away, quarantine poxy child in your room and speak to the insurance company, who would usually ask you to see the resort doctor to establish when ok to fly. All spots need to be completely scabbed over before you fly and you should get a fit to fly note to confirm this

If I had decided to fly home irrespectively I wouldn't have asked for people's opinions. We didn't know it was chicken pox for the first few days, he wasn't ill, just had the spots which we assumed were bites as we'd been in the forest the day before they came out. Last night he started getting sick and that's when it clicked.