MIL is coming to stay for Xmas. Poor woman has had norovirus - started Thursday with awful vomiting, but should have been symptom free (ie not being sick and not feeling sick) for 48h by the time she visits today for several days. It should be Ok, but I've been doing a bit of research into it and some places say 72h symptom free and that she can shed virus for a week. If it was any other time apart from Christmas I'd postpone her visit, but obviously with it being Christmas and her being on her own we can't do that. I think the level of risk after 48h is manageable if we take some precautions. But equally don't want to make her feel like a pariah. But with two DC, I'd really rather they didn't catch it (as I'm sure she feels too!)
Anyway....do these precautions sound OK/normal (I tend towards the OTT so want to judge opinion before I talk to her about any special measures for her stay, if any....
- kids use our bathroom, so she has her own bathroom/toilet
- clean toilet/bathroom and wipe door handles daily
- no food prep done by her (awkward as she is usually very hands on, which is usually great but might be put our)
- tell her we can't use the dish she prepared for Xmas dinner - prepped around 36h post-vomit period
- ask kids not to cuddle in her bed in the morning (opinions espec on this? she would be really sad, as would kids)
- change handtowels in bathrooms daily. obviously own towels.
- no kissing on mouth
I should also say that if we get it, we get it - its not the end of the world (might get it from somewhere else at any other time of course!), but obviouslly I would much, much better we didn't.
Also I don't really want to give list of do's and don'ts to the kids and get them all unnecessarily bug averse or DGM averse. PLUS I don't realy want Xmas ruined by me being all hawk vigiliant over her for everyone's sake. What precautions would you take?