to think that if you posted on Facebook that you were vomiting all night

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on Tuesday, you should not be at your (and my) child's nativity play this morning????????? Gah. Just gah.

Morning sickness??

Well if they were puking over Monday-Tuesday night, and haven't since, that's more than 48 hours...

Nah, Tuesday night to Weds morning, so 24 hours.

Nah, not morning sickness, a bug she caught from her 2yo.

The exclusion time does not apply to parents just to children

Besides they told me that the 24 hour period was for infectiousness and the following 24 hoursd was to give the chance to recover properly.At our secondary it is only 24 hours.

Poor woman - I'm not saying she was in the right but probably felt like she would have let her DC down by not going.

Hugless is correct. It is the vomit and poo that spread the virus. It is not airborne but can be found in airborne droplets if someone has thrown up or not put the loo lid down when flushing. If she was feeling better and being careful about hygiene it was probably the lesser of two evils.

Norovirus is airborne though. OP YDNBU. But then I'm an unreasonable Germophobe anyway

Depends on how you define airborne Miss PixieTrix.

There's an article here. There's a bit about it being ariborne (or not) about two thirds of the way down. There are also myths about how it cannot be caught which might put some minds at rest.

www.emetophobiahelp.org/norovirus.html

read this and thought you might be referring to me but then realised the days don't fit.

I went to DS nativity play this week after throwing up all night. It was his first one and he will now probably be my only child as time is against me (would have loved more) so there was no way i was going to miss his first nativity.

I stayed near the back and didn't go near any other children. If i'd have needed to be sick then i would have left.

The thing is the kids (its a preschool so 3 and 4 year olds) are ill with one bug or another all the time at the minute so i will have caught it off them in the first place so me being there isn't going to bring in some germ that hadn't been there anyway. Infact i was only saying to someone today how in the 20 years before i had DS I hadn't had a sickness bug (I was never around kids), then since having DS 3.5 years ago have had about six bugs which can only be because i'm around kids more. 48 hours rule doesn't apply at work so in theory I should have picked up more from work.

Sorry but I'd have had to have been tied to a hospital bed before I would've missed my child's nativity play.

I would've gone too (and tried really hard not to breathe on anyone).

Ps - 4 kids from my kid's class came in from sick leave (all with the same bug) specifically to be in the Xmas assembly so god knows how many germs were swimming round the school hall today!!

If you're an adult and able to practice good hygiene and distance yourself from people then 48 hour rule less important IMO. Completely different for preschoolers who do a lot of 'sharing'!