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Babysitting dilemma

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kando · 27/02/2004 10:09

I am supposed to be babysitting for a good friend tomorrow night, who has just phoned me to say that her DS woke up this morning with chicken pox. What do you think the chances are of me picking the infection up from him and passing it on to my dds? (Some of his spots are weepy, but he'll be in bed by the time I get there tomorrow evening.)

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kando · 27/02/2004 12:38

Anyone??!

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survivour · 27/02/2004 12:42

kando, my advice is a definate NO, your friend will have to make other arrangements.... when my boys got chicken pox, I stayed at home with them. They can have a fever with it, they get stroppy, and don't think he would want to sleep much, she is your good friend..... she will understand. I have had chicken pox 4 times!!!! take it from me. Sorry that I'm not the bearer of good news.

dinosaur · 27/02/2004 12:44

Um - DS1 has just had chickenpox - I think they are still pretty infectious until the spots have actually scabbed over - which in DS1's case has taken about a week.

Also if he's like DS1, he may wake up and be itchy and need Eurax/calamine on his spots.

So if you haven't had it yourself, I think you do run a bit of a risk of being infected. Having said that, your dds are going to catch it some time or other, so if you haven't had it, you'll probably get it from them in due course anyway.

dinosaur · 27/02/2004 12:45

You've had it four times! Blimey survivour, I've been blithely assuming that I won't catch it froom DS1 because I've had it once! Oh dear!

LIZS · 27/02/2004 12:45

I thought they were infectious until all scabbed over. He will continue to come out in spots for a day or two. If you haven't had it or got immunity then there is a possibilty of catching it as it is an airbourne virus. So I'd say slight without too much contact but perfectly possible.

survivour · 27/02/2004 12:54

The nsh direct book states, that you can develope pox 7 to 21 days later. And that if you have had it before you are likely to have shingles.Pox is no longer infectious 5 days after the last scab has dried. And it can be passed through contaminated clothing, so I assume it can be on our sofa's aswell??????? Dinosaur there was a thread on this= how many times have you had it? chicken pox, not too long ago.

dinosaur · 27/02/2004 12:55

thanks survivour - will look for it

dinosaur · 27/02/2004 13:05

I've done a search for chickenpox and couldn't find a thread about how many times you can have it! Can anyone else help?

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