To think they should have stayed home?

[Softlysoftly]

Am prepared to be told IABU because of degrees of separation and all that but here goes..

Toddler class this morning with the DDs, DD1 (3) in the class, DD2 (7m) with me waiting.

Got talking to another guardian, he had his nephews as the parent was unwell. The kids were also snotty (I don't expect snotty children to stay home btw or you'd never leave the house until June!).

Turns out the "unwell" is previously hospitalised now home and still bad with viral meningitis. The kids have been with the parents until this am when picked up for class.

IABU to think though sniffles are fine if there is even a chance of meningitis infection you shouldnt be near other toddlers/babies?

Feel terrible posting this as the family are lovely but I am a bit worried about the DDs who the boys were playing with before I knew.

I think that would be a bit overkill. Bacterial meningitis is the serious one, not viral.

From www.meningitis.org:

"Am I at risk of spreading or contracting the disease if I have been in contact with a patient with viral meningitis?

The risk to contacts is very low. Viral meningitis does not normally require public health measures to be taken because although some of the viruses that cause it are contagious, most people infected have no symptoms, or only very mild ones. A person with viral meningitis may pass on the virus, but this would be very unlikely to cause another person to develop viral meningitis as well."

Full link here.

Thank you I didn't realise there were different types!