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told to leave my 2 year son outside

340 replies

caz1987k · 09/11/2015 20:40

My health visitor can out to see me after my 2 year old son have a temperature and rash had a A&E visit over it she was saying you have to put cold water in the bath 1st or he will be burned and drown my son is not left in the bathroom alone she was very ignorant and was basically telling me how to safeguard my son in the bathroom my son has 3 different types of eczema and have had this since birth has been to see a skin specialist about this she was Intent on making me see a different specialist she even made appointments for me to see my GP my GP said my son does not need any skin specialist she left a voicemail on my phone for me to call her when I called her she was telling me I have to safeguard the outside of the property that I'm living in in this she told me I had to get a cage that attaches to my front door so my 2 year old son can go outside and play I was told buy her to leave my son unattended outside in a cage I would never leave my child unattended at any point been outside and is watching when in the bath has anyone got any advice on this matter as I'm not a stupid person that would leave a 2 year old in a cage outside but there are young mums out there that could possibly take notice to what thishealth visitor has told me

OP posts:
Savagebeauty · 09/11/2015 20:42

What?????

Oysterbabe · 09/11/2015 20:43

Um........ What?

ElsaAintAsColdAsMe · 09/11/2015 20:43

The health visitor told you to put your son outside in a cage? Confused

MascaraAndConverse89 · 09/11/2015 20:44

Say what??

lexigrey · 09/11/2015 20:44

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Gobletofgin · 09/11/2015 20:44

A cage? I'm not sure I get this....

TokenGinger · 09/11/2015 20:44

Your need to type your post again and add some punctuation. It makes no sense.

Kim82 · 09/11/2015 20:45

I can't work out what you're on about, your post doesn't make sense.

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 09/11/2015 20:45

Are you in the UK?

UmbongoUnchained · 09/11/2015 20:45

Could you repost this in English?

FattyNinjaOwl · 09/11/2015 20:45
Confused
ineedamoreadultieradult · 09/11/2015 20:46

Erm....

Fugghetaboutit · 09/11/2015 20:46

Ever heard of a full stop Grin

MrsReiver · 09/11/2015 20:46

Sounds like you need to complain about your health visitor.

Shizzy · 09/11/2015 20:47

You what? What did punctuation ever do to you that you refuse to acknowledge its existence?

thegiddylimit · 09/11/2015 20:47

I wonder if this is one of those posts that are generated by computers based on a typical post on the forum? Clearly the computer thinks we're nethuns who don't know how to punctuate.

InkleWinkle · 09/11/2015 20:47

Not sure about the cage thing...
Did she think his skin issues were caused by being scalded in the bath?

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 09/11/2015 20:48

She told you to leave him in a cage outside? She actually said to out him in a cage then go inside and leave him? You mean a playpen?
She told you not to leave him in the bath unattended? Well that's fairly sound advice, if patronising. I can't really make head nor tail of the rest of it to be honest. Sounds like she was just trying to help re the eczema.

Oysterbabe · 09/11/2015 20:48

I mean... what do you mean by cage exactly? I'm picturing a dog crate.

timelytess · 09/11/2015 20:48

I think I understood your post. If you are genuine (and many on MN are not) then your health visitor has given silly advice that you should ignore.

Contact the skin specialist's PA and find out if your son needs to be seen again.

Gileswithachainsaw · 09/11/2015 20:48

I'm assuming the op doesn't speak English as a first language which is why it's difficult to fully understand?

where do you live? do you have large dangerous animals nearby? dingos, crocs, bears etc? by cage do you mean a fence?

Senpai · 09/11/2015 20:49

A cage? Are you trying to say play pen which is a fenced in area kids play in?

TheBouquets · 09/11/2015 20:49

I saw something about these cages recently. I think it was designed to allow DC who live in flats to get fresh air! I would not have one myself no matter where I lived. Maybe the HV has seen the same article and thought it might help with the eczema. I know another skin condition which is supposed to be improved by sunlight but in November I don't see much sunshine!

Mulligrubs · 09/11/2015 20:50

I genuinely can't make sense of this post. Your son had a temperature, you went to A&E and had a HV visit over it? And HV lectured you on safeguarding in the bath and said you need to out your child in a cage outside?

ZebraLovesKnitting · 09/11/2015 20:50

Basically your health visitor is giving lots of unwanted advice and being very interfering? Although I'm very confused about the cage business.

Just ignore her or tell her you don't require her services, you're perfectly happy with everything. If you're so-minded you could make a complaint about her to her superiors I suppose?