Chicken pox and a pissed off parent!

[playfelt]

If you have no one at your house right now with the chicken pox then what makes this mom think her child got it at daycare - the incubation period is about 10 days and it will be from someone they were around that had a cold but no spots yet. Time to email the mom an info sheet on the disease.

Also chicken pox is no longer excluded from school or city run daycares because of the contagiousness although most invoke their no open sores rule to have the child stay home for a few days till scabbed over.

[Momof4]

do you not have chicken pox vaccines in canada? or are they not manditory. In the states a child must have them at least by school age but I'm pretty sure they push them quite young....I optted out until they told me my kids couldn't go to school without them. either way, don't think its the end of the world and doesn't it make you furious to think this Mom has enough nerve to blame you and your house for a sickness her kid could have picked up anywhere? Reminds me of about a month ago when a Mom (micromanager as well) blamed me for her, her daughters and her husbands BAD colds. said: "it was their first Day Care illness"...in the mean time NO ONE in the daycare was ill!!!! I could have punched her in the face.....I just turned it around and told her she could not bring her daughter back until the "sick" are well for a full 48 hours. That ticked her off........whatever. .I think you have to have plenty of nerve to blame someone for an illness.

Kidlove, in Canada we can choose if we want to vaccinate our children or not vaccinate at all, and I'm not positive but I believe if children are not vaxed they have to provide a form to the school board before entering Junior Kindergarden.

[DORITOSGIRL]

The pox vaccine is not mandatory, but any child not receiving it has to provide a letter to the school, at least that is my understanding. My girl had it in September and if I had known how ill it was going to make her, I would have opted out until she was older. She was really sick with high fever, cough, runs and upset tummy for about 6 days.
This child who caught the pox had the vaccine as well.. No other child in my care has come down with it, and its not in the class at school either. So she obviously contracted it elsewhere.

I have two interviews this week so I can get these children mom is getting notice!

[Mamma_Mia]

My DD also got the vaccine at a young age and she didn't get any reactions!! I guess it just depends on child. That sucks that you's got so ill.


So even if you've had the vaccine you can still catch the pox?? or If you had the pox once can you catch it again? I'm confused......

[playfelt]

My girls had the pox twice. The first time when they were 6 and 8 but a very mild case and we were warned then that it might not give them full immunity. They got it again when they were 22 and 24 along with my 18 year old. We blamed that on their dad who had a mild case of shingles and was contagious before we realized what he had.

Non of them had the chicken pox vaccine since it wasn't around when they were little and never really thought about it when they were older.

[playfelt]

I'm still confused though, what makes this mom think the virus came from your house? Does someone at your house have chicken pox now?

[BlueRose]

So even if you've had the vaccine you can still catch the pox?? or If you had the pox once can you catch it again? I'm confused......

Yes you can still get the poxs if you have vaccine. it doesn't always "take". Having the vaccine just means its less likely to get the pox.

Yes just because you have had the poxs does not mean you will not get it again. I have had the chicken pox twice, once as a kid and once when I was 29. I also have a friend who has gotten 4 times.

When I got it the 2nd time, I have no clue were I got then from. My only guess is that I got it from one of my customers (I was working retail at the time).
People can have the chicken pox and never know it. that is what happen to my dad. he never got the spots, but when his dr. checked his blood work, it came back positive to him having had it. He was going to get the vaccine, but since he had had the pox he was not aloud to get it.

[sunnydays]

Yep...my oldest son had it three times when he was little...mildly each time. My youngest two are vaccinated, but I know they may still get it...I am hoing just mildly though. My neighbour just told me that headlice has gone through her daycare...brought by her school-aged daughter...who goes to my son's school Apparently it is at epidemic proportions! Guess which little boy is getting his head shaved?! IMO headlice is far worse...so much work involved in getting rid of it!!! Ack!!!

[kidlove]

wow, I thought it was a once ever thing? I guess it would be like any other virus, the strain can be dif, maybe stronger...or perhaps it depends on your immune system at time of contact. maybe if you have a cold already and your immune system is down, you will be more likely to pick up. Yuck. Had a Dr appt yesterday and had to bring my kids with me, while in the waiting room a little girl came in with what looked like the pox all over her face and hands, her Mom allowed her to go over to the toys and play!!!!!!! I told my kids to have their hands in their laps the entire time. Sure enough, as soon as the nurses saw them in the wait room, they called them back ahead of everyone else, must have been highly contagious. Thanks to that Mom for letting her kids play with the toys in the wait room. Spread on woman! (not sure why there are toys in a dr office wait room anyway)

[sunnydays]

Yeah...actually I have noticed in the past couple of years that they have removed all the toys from doctor's waitingrooms. I remember when my oldest was little, our doctor had an entire toyroom/germ breading ground! I don't even like my kids to touch the magazines in those places! Not that it does any good...we get sick anyway...in fact I am closed today for a sick day for me and my daughter....which is why I am on this forum at this time of day!

wow, I thought it was a once ever thing? I guess it would be like any other virus, the strain can be dif, maybe stronger...or perhaps it depends on your immune system at time of contact. maybe if you have a cold already and your immune system is down, you will be more likely to pick up. Yuck. Had a Dr appt yesterday and had to bring my kids with me, while in the waiting room a little girl came in with what looked like the pox all over her face and hands, her Mom allowed her to go over to the toys and play!!!!!!! I told my kids to have their hands in their laps the entire time. Sure enough, as soon as the nurses saw them in the wait room, they called them back ahead of everyone else, must have been highly contagious. Thanks to that Mom for letting her kids play with the toys in the wait room. Spread on woman! (not sure why there are toys in a dr office wait room anyway)