To think if your child has D&V you don't take them swimming?

[CorporateRockWhore]

So I took DD (4) to her swimming lesson tonight; it's just her and one other girl, who is 6.

During the lesson, I heard the Dad say to the Mum 'I hope she isn't going to be sick in the pool' but didn't think much of it.

In the changing room afterwards, I heard the wee girl ask her Mum if they could have pizza for tea. The mum replied 'No, no being sick.'

She then clocked my face and added hastily 'in the last few days.'

AIBU to think that if your child has been puking you keep them out of the way of other kids for 48 hours? And you certainly don't take them swimming with other kids?

Sorry, she said 'No, not after being sick'

SIGH.

YADNBU

Neville I can tell you've had previous issues with The Puke Bringers.

YABU if that's the case,and it sounds like she was.

But some people don't give a shit,like the ones who have kids with chicken pox (before they have crusted over)that bring them everywhere because they are "bored" staying in.
No consideration for pregnant women,cancer patients or anyone else.

See, DS has a cough and therefore can't meet his tiny new cousin...but that's the breaks, right? You don't just carry on as normal without thinking of other people.

Now I'm going to have to hold some sort of bucket vigil all night. HATE the puking...

Swimming pools are the worst place to take an infection! Warm and moist, ideal environment for encouraging bacteria and viruses to spread.

The child definitely shouldn't have been at the pool till at least 48 hours after no symptoms.

You are totally right in fact I'm sure I read somewhere it should be a week before you go swimming

FFS my first dip into AIBU and I get my letters wrong

YANBU fecks of back to chat

We have no idea wage the symptoms passed.

It could be that following d&v the mother wanted to get the vitamins and minerals up before having junk food, or that total fuck wit parents putting others at risk for the sake of ££££ spent on lessons.

ICanSee yes, I don't know for sure, but it wasn't the best lie ever told, put it that way. I knew she was covering up! Grr.

Some people are selfish bastards! I have driven DD2 to her swimming lesson, she's been sick on the way so I've cleared her up and gone back home again.
Yanbu

I will take your word for it.

Did you tell the staff at the swimming pool, I most probably am wrong but I swear I remember that the pool can be tested quite quickly if it's safe to swim in.

I wanted to mention it but the wee girl's grandparents were chatting to the manager, so I didn't feel I could say!

YANBU. A woman turned up at DS's class a couple of weeks ago with her DS. She said "I'm surprised he's well enough to swim, he threw up 6 times last night". I tried to nicely suggest that maybe swimming wasn't recommended. She replied with "well, he's here now. He'll be sad if I don't let him swim" and plonked him in the pool.

Even more selfishly, the lessons are in the hydrotherapy pool at the local hospital. Used every week day by genuinely sick people

Have emailed them. Don't want to cause a problem but it's a non-chlorinated pool so I guess germs would be rife in it...yuck.

Yes, but would they be going back to school the next day if they were feeling better with no fever? The answer is probably yes. So why not swim lessons too?

You're more contagious when the bug is incubating and during the throws of illness than after you got sick and the fever is gone. I have a very good immune system and constantly accidentally get people sick because I carried home bugs from work, the bus, etc. So even not having symptoms isn't a guarantee of not being contagious.

But yes, tell the pool. You don't want other kids getting sick just in case.

maybe she is a child who is just randomly sick. My brother was, he had a list of things that made him sick, top of it was fizzy pop as I remember. sweets were bad, asking for pizza my dad would have been totally . It was just him, gross but non catching.

But Princess the rule is 48 hours for a reason surely?

yabu, how else would I have discovered that a child turns school milk into cottage cheese within the space of an hour? [sarcastic] to be fair he hadn't been sick at home first.

hopefully she was carsick with the heat. dd gets carsick.