AIBU re vomiting and diarrhoea

[SatsumaSatsuma]

Hi. A teaching colleague has been up all night cleaning up d and v as her teenage son and DH are dreadfully ill. I know she was very very 'hands on ' helping her son clean up.

Today she came in to school as normal and we were scheduled to work together for much of the day, in close proximity.

AIBU to think that the 48 hour rule should apply to people who have had direct contact with body fluids of someone who is very sick, and not just the sick person themselves?

In my personal life, I get to choose whether to isolate myself from a friend if they have sick family members. But in this scenario, the staff and children have no say at all!

There were some worried looks being exchanged in the staff room today.

AIBU?

Ps I do feel sorry for my colleague but am now obv anxious about catching it myself

I don't think it applies to the carers. If they're super-careful they can avoid infection - I think adults can skate by without succumbing.

What I'd adults in the house already have it? It's presumably quite a nasty bug.

I am assuming that a lot of people will be off work if they stayed home because a family member has it, I can see what you are saying though yanbu but if you hand wash it should be fine

If you are meticulous with hygiene, you won't catch it, so won't be able to pass it on. You have to get particles (boak) in your mouth to contract the infection. I know this as I'm an emetophobe and I can just about avoid catching any d&v bug, even though I have four young children and a dh who often gets it from them.

Who is going to pay the wages of the person who has come into contact with D&V?

I work with children and have had to mop up poo and snot and sick sometimes all at once I am hardly ever ill and cant remember the last time I had D n V

I think you are very unrealistic. what would happen to nurses who can spend every working day cleaning up d &v?

Fwiw, your colleague IMO was insensitive telling you and other colleagues the details of what she had been cleaning up.

by that token you are saying that health care workers should stick to one patient a day and have full decontamination at the end of the day!

I very rarely get d and v bugs from my kids, even when dd and ds2 had noro neither me, dh nor ds1 got it because we washed or hands, kept the loo etc clean, cleaned taps and door handles and so on.

Even if the staff member had caught it, she's not infectious till she shows symptoms herself I believe. And presumably she's washed her hands since cleaning up so won't be bringing the actual bodily fluids into work! Besides, DD was sick in the morning then straight after lunch one Friday, I suddenly felt ill and was vomiting within a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon, so just over 48 hours later.

Crohn has it.
You only infectious when you have vomited the virus particles and continue to spread them around on your hands/ as you vomit.

Yabu and very silly

In theory OP. Yes. In Practice no. The DCs were Ill with it last year. DM was in hospital. I obviously chose to not go for the following 48hours given the environment etc. However if we all lived by this theory half the parents wouldn't be at work and if we really want to analyse it. You could come into contact with anybody who might have been doing similar and not known. The shoplady giving you the Paper in the morning could have been upwith vomiting son. The postman handing you the Parcel could have left his ill wife at home after looking after her all night.