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anyone know if you can catch chicken pox by being in a room where a child with chicken pox WAS

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nowwearefour · 09/01/2009 09:16

but now isnt? is it airborne or can you catch it from fabrics etc? or is it through direct contact with the child?

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nowwearefour · 09/01/2009 09:24

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pageturner · 09/01/2009 09:25

You can't catch it like that! It's direct contact with the scabs, not airborne.

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Picante · 09/01/2009 09:25

It is airborne. I guess it would depend how long the child had been out of the room.

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Picante · 09/01/2009 09:26

Lol at x-posts.

Sorry definitely airborne. A friend's ds caught it from my ds and they weren't even in the same room.

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SniffyHock · 09/01/2009 09:27

My children have just had it - my doctor told me that it would need actual contact, the example he gave was approx 10mins face-to-face conversation. I guess the equivalent for a toddler is playing in fairly close poximity for a fair amount of time. So I would say no, they can't get it from a room where it was.