to take dd to hospital appointment

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DD is 10 months and yesterday had a vomiting bug (no diarrhea) . It lasted only a few hours and she is fine this morning. I have an outpatient hospital appointment today. She should have been at nursery today but I can't take her if she was vomiting yesterday.

I have a hospital appointment this afternoon. I feel bad about cancelling at the last minute as it is a waste of NHS resources. But I would also worry about taking a potentially infectious child to a hospital.

I have no one I can leave her with. DH is away.

AIBU to take her with me and keep her in the pushchair so she doesn't touch anything to reduce the risk of passing on her germs?

If I had D&V I would not attend a hospital appointment, no. Why would I? Why does anyone, especially someone who was a nurse need it explaining to them why someone with D&V needs to stay away from the hospital unless they are going about that specifically? The mind boggles!

Sigh.
Please don't

The whole point of infection control/prevention policies and procedures is to protect staff and other patients. No, you should not unnecessarily enter a hospital the day after you had a vomiting bug, whether you are a child or an adult. I hope that senior sister realised she was doing the wrong job STDG, she was talking absolute rubbish. That is why we have PPE etc.

Depends which clinic you are going to.

I can't take our DS to DH's clinic as its Oncology. I have taken him to the dermo ward with a cold.

No, don't take her. Wards are closed every year because of D&V, and it's because people don't think that the 48 hour rules apply to them!

Keep her home and rearrange your appointment for when she's better.

Depends where you are going in the hospital. Fracture clinic? Fine imo. Immunology? Maybe not.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I didn't go to the appointment and it's been rescheduled. I felt bad that I was wasting nhs time from an appointment cancelled at the last minute. But I figured that if the doctor I was supposed to see got infected, that would cause more appointments to be cancelled if he was off sick.