Coughing kids after subtropical swimming experience

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So if dogs can come home with kennel cough after a few days away, can kids come home from a certain wooded holiday park with something similar ? Mine are barking till they retch after a 4 night stay?

they can catch a cold if they have been near someone else who has a cold..

whopping cough?

Wow. Quick replies. Thanks. Fully fascinated re the whoop luckily.

It's life, unless it was a coughing fit in the pool that is caused by too much chemical fume.

I just figured there must have been at least 30 mumsnetters at elvedon this week and I heard some similar coughing. Kinda wondered how far the mumsnet tentacles can reach?!

Vaccinated

I love the idea of being fascinated against whopping cough

My first emoticon
.... Woo hoo

We once ended up with 2 babies and a toddler all suffering with bronchilitus (sp?) after a midweek visit to a similar holiday park in Robin Hood's old stomping ground. I'm still to be convinced that the atmosphere in the SSP wasn't a breeding ground for the germ... but I'm not an expert, so that could well be a load of tosh.

Mmm. That's my vague hunch too.
We did have a lovely time though!
Echinacea all round next year

Are they prone to asthma?
Asthma can look like a persistent dry breathy cough

DS had asthma as a child and the chlorine in CP STP exacerbated it more than a normal pool, as we went every day and for a couple of hours. Blue puffers controlled it, but it was scary when it first started

I live in the Elveden area and have been barking like a seal all week, nothing to do with a certain holiday park and everything to do with a particularly nasty cold virus that is doing the rounds here. It comes with a nice dose of aches and pains, sore throat, congestion and in my case a developing middle ear infection.

Best of luck, and I hope you don't catch it too.

we're going on a very much needed long overdue holiday there next week
DS (20months) always gets ear infections anyway
He's going to get poorly isn't he

Could also be something to do that the 'gulags' (as DH christened the Comfort Plus chalet we stayed in) at Elvedon are often damp and mouldy in the bedrooms? We ended up with DD sleeping in with us as her bedroom reeked of damp and mould and despite complaining CP did bugger all about it. We all caught raging colds that week.

I have been nowhere near CP and I have a horrible cold, sore throat, barking cough. It is a virus I have caught. You are more likely to catch viruses in closely confined areas I guess but as you have children they are just as likely to have caught it from school.

We have returned with Noro virus before now

Going the weekend before easter and beginning to think it's not such a great idea as DD has GCSE's when we return

Cripes, we're off to a certain wooded holiday park in Robin hood country in a weeks time ( was very excited and all gloat-y until I read this thread)
Should we wear masks? (joke)

Thanks for the replies. I would go back. Our comfort plus gulag was well maintained. No asthma so perhaps seasonal plus proximity. Grandma has it now and never went near the water.

Me and my DD ended up with a horrible stomach bug after a long weekend at a lake district located wooded park.

I feel bad for CPs now! I need to add that we went for 17 years on the trot before the outbreak, we have been three or four times since too. The reason I don't like it now so much is because I feel it's lost a bit of it's charm.... but I think that's because we first went about 23 years ago when it was much simpler and they weren't quite so money grabbing at every opportunity

There's loads of this doing the rounds at the moment. Ds 1 and 2 had it the week before CP, dd came down with it 2 days after we left and then DH got it. It's quite tiring, lots of aches and pains as well as cough/URTI.
A&E is full of it.
we had a great week at CP - no one actually ill that week!

Well I never. DS age 2.9 appears to have chicken pox tonight. So he could have been more virus speaker than catcher.

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