To cast aspercions at the hygiene of the rest of DS year 2 class

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OK, I know that kids will share things other than pencils at school, but this term he has had D&V, head lice and last night we had to make an emergency dash at bath time for threadworm treatment.
He was at a childminder from 7 months to 3.3, nursery until 4.3 and made it through reception, year 1 and my current childminder until this term without such problems.

Last night was my only 'doing nothing night' of the last 10 days and next 7 days, but ended up blitzing the house and the washing machine is doing overtime.

Hopefully it will reinforce the message of no nail biting that, DS has been ignoring of late!

His school rearrange classes each year, so he is one of 4 from last years class

What makes you think that the other parents aren't as scrupulous or vigilant as you? They might be casting the same aspersions about your household's cleanliness.

Could you offer to put something in the newsletter about the different critters and teaching children to wash their hands thoroughly?

Shave his head very closely - that at least helps the head lice.

MNHQ, why don't you asks Tech to create an interactive map of all the UK schools and year groups, so we can log outbreaks anonymously, and get alerts if our children's year groups have outbreaks?

We could also have a national map of hotspots.

Wonder if there would be a north south divide and a Watford Gap ?

This is all 100pc normal. And you can add to that chickenpox, swine flu (that was a 2011 special) and gastroenteritis x 2. Oh and salmonella (we only buy vaccinated eggs and hardly eat any meat so it most likely came from outside the house).

We have a very useful email among all the parents that alerts us all when one of us has found lice and then we all check and report back in. It does help stop it in its tracks. The only thing that is a bit annoying is when it's slightly passive aggressive as in "Oh, Delores came home with nits this afternoon having picked it up from someone at school" and you think "you have no idea where she picked it up and was just as likely to have been the vector for headlice getting into school as all those dreadful other children so get off your high horse and let's all treat it as just one of those things and get on with the combing and spraying"

So - your son has had all of these things. And he will have been infectious and passed it on to other children. So by your logic he must have really poor personal hygiene and be really dirty.

Or as anybody with half a brain could see children pick up these infections and pass them on regardless of personal hygiene.

But you seem to think when your son has them it's everybody elses fault but when other people have it then it's their fault.

I really cannot understand how someone can be so dim they can't understand the basic logic that if your own child has an infection and good personal hygiene but nobody elses can.

We keep worm medicine in the cupboard at all times as it's always at bedtime it's noticed.

OP, if your son was washing his hands before putting them in his mouth he wouldn't have caught them.

I dont know anyone with threadworms, impetigo, or slapped cheek.

Nits arent discerning

We could also have a national map of hotspots.

But hotspots of what? Users of MN? Keen condition reporters?