To think there's a middle ground on taking ill children on the school run

[Molehillmountain]

If you've got a child with chicken pox or d and v I get it that you can't leave them at home. But aibu to stick said child in pushchair with raincover a reasonable way away from others and warn them that x is poorly. Because other parents seem to let them just run around and play. And what about coming to school events like plays and fairs?

Plays and fairs, I would say hell no, stay home! But yes, I think it's important to keep poorly siblings as isolated as possible during the school run. You can always ask another parent to walk your well child in or let the school know you'll be a few minutes late so that you can drop off after the bulk of the kids have already gone in. There are ways around it without having your sick child infecting everyone around them.

Can you not get another parent to pick up and drop off,

I wouldn't take an ill child out, not nice for them, and downright dangerous for some if they catch an infection.

hmm, i haven't got a pushchair as mine are too old so i would take ds (4) to pick up/drop off dd if he had a dodgy tummy, cold or ear infection but not if he had chicken pox or anything like that

not plays and fairs

but I would put a sick child in its buggy (prob not d and v because not fair on them to sit in it on the way home if they go) and avoid everyone. Wrapped up nicely in their buggy isn't a hardship when they're ill IMO and can't see how you would even risk air borne cross infection if you kept out of everyone way

I think the fairs etc is a comp

i have a baby in the buggy, so what am i suppossed to do if one of the other ones is sick? tie her to the buggy with an umbrella? lol

Sorry-I def think the fairs etc thing is a complete no no but have heard so many say "what were we supposed to do?" line that I began to wonder. No problem with children in pushchair-that's what I do but I am being driven mad at the moment with people saying "well they we're sick once but they're fine now" and allowing their child to run around playing with mine. Also, I have gone to some lengths at times to keep contagious children out of the way so then go a bit when obviously early chicken Poxy children are continuing as normal. I just wondered if I was being over cautious. Thing is, it's not so much getting chicken pox itself that's the problem but how does anyone know if there's a newly pg woman around or indeed an important event coming up for a family.

I did the buggy and rainhood thing. Realistically, if they're trapped inside the rainhood and not going to touch anything then I fail to see how the risk is real. Especially since I was doing the school run to the school where he'd caught it in the first place so a large number of the little darlings running around the playground were inevitably incubating it.

Ds5 has chicken pox at the moment and I've had no choice but to take him on the school run. We don't have a pushchair, so he's held onto my hand, no running about or mixing with anyone else. I've dropped the others off outside school and gone as late as possible do I don't have to hang around at pick up.

My dd has chickenpox too and yesterday I drove near to school and when I saw a mum I know asked her to take my 2 ds's in for me. This morning I did the same and asked someone else!
Luckily I have a good friend who could do pick up.
But I did have buggy with raincover in boot as last resort but would have tried to get someone to take them for me in playground, before any contact!

you do know that chickenpox makes some people miscarry, and for anyone doing cemo/cancer journey it can kill?

I wouldn't be able to take that risk.

bit shocked people do.

If I have to take a sick DD to collect her sister I kinda hide her behind me and stay away from the main stream of parents/DCs coming out of school. That gives everyone the "beware lurgies" signal and friends are free to ask how she's doing without being breathed on. It's more awkward here because the standard form of greeting is a kiss.

yes quote, but they have to get close enough to catch it first, the air bourne element has a limited radius!

What I did object to was the fact that the school didn't tell us immediately that there was a chickenpox outbreak until after DS actually came down with it. If one of the parents/GPs/siblings were immunocomprised, surely the most important thing is for them to know that as soon as possible, plus if I'd been alerted to the outbreak I'd have spotted it much earlier (because I'd have had CP in mind as a possibility) and not taken DS shopping.

Cherie, do you know roughly what the radius is? Always wondered. Would help me when trying to avoid either catching or transmitting bugs!

well the distance between isolation rooms and main bays in hospitals is only a few meters so that's probably enough