to keep DS off school until after half term due to a.....

[superv1xen]

scabies outbreak?

ok i think i might be winning the prize this week for "most precious parent" after my post yesterday re DS's social life....

...but today he brought a letter home saying there had been several cases of scabies at school and to be vigilant about signs of it in your DC...so
i am seriously considering keeping him off tomorrow and friday and sending him back after half term as i REALLY do not want him (and then possibly me, DH and DD) to get this horrible condition will just ring the school and say he's got a cold or something.

he is only 4 btw, it isn't his gcse year....

I think I'd be tempted to keep him off, too.
But you can't keep him off forever, and it could linger a while amongst the preschoolers.

If you can, keep him off. Scabies is a pain to treat, and if he gets it, everyone wil need treating, not to mention the washing...

I agree, I would keep him off too, its only 2 days and scabies is awful to deal with and spreads very easily

Might it not have been spread already?

I very rarely keep children off of school, but in this case I think that I would.
Scabies is seriously unpleasant I believe.

oh lord i do hope not :( :(

Can you ring the school to check that the children that have it are going to be kept away?

Oh they would be surely.
Well I would hope so!

well i have kept him off. he couldnt believe his luck :o

rang and said he was ill with a bug and wouldnt be back till after half term

we are all off out to meet my friend for lunch in town in a bit

naughty superv1xen...

Not at all, I'd have done the same

He's only 4, I used to pull mine out if we had something more interesting planned and I would definitely have kept them off for something like that

Dozy question, is scabies the same as ringworm?