WIBU to take potentially infectious DD to the cinema?

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DD threw up all over her bed in the middle of the night last night, several times. She was still feeling a bit rough this morning but has now bounced back in true 4 year old style. Her preschool has a 48 hour rule for sending kids in after they've been sick which is fair enough. She's going to be bouncing off the walls tomorrow wanting entertainment. I'm disabled so have limited options as to what I can do with her. I'm looking at an 11am showing on a school day. I figure we'd book tickets in advance so just stop at the collection machine and then go in and not sit near anyone, we can always move seats if someone's bought ones near us, it'll be deserted. Okay or not?

OP, you've received some helpful (and some unhelpful) responses on here.

I have a vomiting phobia so I'm always very nervous about situations like yours, BUT our school has recently changed the policy for V&D to 24 hours instead of 48 , which would suggest that it's fine for you to take your DD to the cinema. I can't imagine they have done this lightly so there must be a reason, I just can't for the life of me understand what it is and it fills me with terror when I hear that a bug is going around!!

I'm glad your DD seems better OP.

Couldn't agree more with polly. Drama all round or what? Goes back to what I said though - have conviction in your own parenting choices and you won't need to be 'told' what to do by a bunch of mn strangers , you'll be able to risk assess and decide for yourself

Trouble is, the op hasn't shown a clear understanding of how infection spreads so appears to be risk assessing without crucial detail.
As someone with a compromised immune system, I don't expect people to go OTT on germs. I do my bit for myself where I can. But there's no need to put other people at risk if you can avoid it.

Like the poster on the first page, I've always gone by the 24 hour rule. So I'd take her.

Seriously !!! She's sick ! Keep her at home ...
Selfish

I think a day at home just incase is a better option.
That's what I do with my dd anyway.

I actually work in a hospital Grantaire so I'm fully aware of what sanitising wipes do and don't do. Most of the posters here are talking about absolute worst case scenarios, a frail person with an already compromised immune system sitting in the same seat at the cinema as a 4 year old who vomited 24 hours previously would be at risk but healthy people who refrain from licking the seat should be fine.

And Iheartking I'm sure 4 years of illness was dramatic and awful but unlikely to have been caused by germs from a small child's upset tummy.. correct me if I'm wrong.

There is a horrible 4 day sickness bug going around.

Please don't pass it on.

I hope everyone gets the flu jab every winter, you're infectious before you have symptoms. If you don't get it you're the same as a poorly child at the flicks and putting others at risk.

Polly I got a sickness bug from a small child. So did 11 others. They all recovered in a few days. For some reason I didn't. I was ill for a long time. It was horrendous and yes, it was caused by germs from a small child who should have been kept at home. Apparently it's more common than we realise for this sort of reaction to occur.

So, you know, feel free to fuck off.

That's awful Iheartthistle, what bug did the child have? I've never heard of that happening before, were you unwell anyway?

No idea, we assume norovirus. It felt like it just destroyed my system basically. Constant nausea, food intolerances. Camera showed inflamed stomach lining. Still flares up occasionally. I'm much much better now but it was a long road.

I had a 4 month old baby at the time too

Flu jab is different though as its not stomach flu. They give jab to elderly/pg/diabetics etc so they dont get ill themselves.
Also there is no enforced 48hr off school etc for flu

I get that with people with compromised immunity catching something it can be dangerous however (and I'm not meaning the OPS case) it's just no possible to quarantine yourself for x amount of time after illnes for many people.

Last week I had no option but to leave the house whilst in the middle of a sickness bug. I would hate if someone had gotten ill from my germs but sometimes needs must. It's not malicious or careless it was necessaity.

I appreciate not everyone can wait 48 hours after a bug. I get that and the risk of transmission is low.

But sending a kid out and about in the throws of a sickness bug, if it's otherwuse avoidable, is selfish IMHO

My nursery has always adopted a 24 hours rule for sickness bugs and honestly I'd never heard that it should be 48 so whilst I personally wouldn't go out with her if DD was off sick from nursery if it was 24 hours after and she was well I wouldn't think twice about going to the cinema.

Obviously midweek it wouldn't happen as she'd be back to nursery and me to work but if she'd been sick Thurs night/frI morning I wouldn't have though twice about going out come sat.

Schools and the NHS have a 24-48 hour rule for a reason... So many in our society have depressed immune systems for many reasons.. cancer treatment , elderly etc.. . It's not just to stop little Mary from spreading it to little Johnny.... And I find it odd that anyone would want to give a message to their child that says if you can't go to school then let's have some fun instead. Not vomiting for a few hours doesn't mean that they're clear... It makes me cross!!!!