To be absolutely fucking fuming that DS2 has been sent home from nursery with impetigo?

[AwfulCuntForTheButter]

The staff were incredibly cavalier about it and said 'it's been going about for a few days'.

They're quick enough to call whenever they want money, but they couldn't let parents know about something highly contagious?

DH2 has been at nursery since 7mnths. He's the most sickly child it's awful but I don't blame the nursery, that's the nature of a bunch of snotty slobbery wee people all rolling around together. You can't tell sometimes.
I know it's frustrating though and I am sick of him being sick.
Also I to am an awful cunt for the butter I'm going to have a spot of toast with some now.

There is chicken pox doing the rounds at DS's nursery at the moment, and they had conjunctivitis a few weeks ago. They put a note on the door as you walk in. I've still sent him in (luckily he hasn't caught either) because I can't afford not to. It's enough of a nightmare having to take time off work and pull him out of nursery when he's actually ill, let alone just on the off chance. He would literally never be in if I did that.

If they've knowing left an infectious child stay there for days and been blase about it, making no effort to try and prevent the spread then fair enough....but I doubt that's the case. He will get
Worms
Head lice
Chicken pox
D and V
Coughs
Colds
and the non specific thing that nobody can diagnose but just leaves him feeling a bit rubbish.

It's only just begun! Honestly, don't waste your energy being angry at the nursery!

Nits, worms, impetigo, chickenpox, d+v..... and others!
Better get used to it OP
YABVU

YABU there are always bugs, etc going around, they can't let you know every time

MrsGradyOldLady that makes no sense. My daughter made it through nursery without ever catching chicken pox so by your argument everyone should be up in arms if their kid catches chicken pox at nursery since my daughter's living proof you can get through nursery without it.

I do think they're out of order for not telling all the parents something is going round. A group email is hardly a time consuming challenge these day. If parents know to be on the look out for symptoms they're more likely to spot them early and keep their kids home thus minimising infection rates hopefully. I wouldn't have a clue what I was looking for with impetigo but if I knew it was going round nursery I'd read up on it and keep an eye out for any signs on my DD.

Get a grip!

Children catch things from each other all the time. They don't seal them in plastic bags once they enter the nursery setting you know!

Our nursery would put an information sheet of any nasties doing the rounds.

So you'd get there in a morning read there's Hand foot and mouth or chickenpox or diarrhea. But end up leaving your child there cos if you didn't take them in every time there was a lurgy they'd never go to nursery.

It's the joys of nursery life.

Hope they get better soon.

Foot and mouth
Molliuscum
Scarlet fever
Slapped cheek

Yabu

This is going to happen at school too so you are in for the long haul unfortunately.

YANBU

they should advise the parents as soon as they are aware something contagious is going round, it's not difficult, and that's all parents are asking. In this case, they didn't, so for that I agree with you.

Then it's entirely up to parents if they take a risk or not. Some kids, or adults!, have underlying issues which make common illnesses or problems much more dangerous.

I work at a nursery and we have signage for anything contagious that goes up on the door with the date on when we're aware of an outbreak.

Having said that, impetigo isn't always the easiest thing to recognise (particularly on very young children who can get facial rashes from dummies, comforters, teething etc) so you can't really blame anyone for a child being in nursery to spread it (although once apparent they should be excluded for 48 hours or until the lesions have crusted over).

There are lots of things that aren't excludable e.g. conjunctivitis, so this won't be the last time he picks something up.

As others have said, this is just part of nursery/school life, albeit a pita. Hope your DS is feeling better soon.

pseudo it makes perfect sense to me. Chickenpox is contagious before the spots appear. Impetigo is contagious from the visable open sores.

My 3 didn't catch it. I'm not making it up to support my argument

Also, some childhood illnesses can come on really suddenly.

My DD went off to nursery completely normally one morning - no symptoms whatsoever. She came back 4.5 hours later grumpy and fractious with the first two or three chicken pox spots.

No doubt she was highly contagious that morning, but I had absolutely no idea she was coming down with something when she went in without so much as a sniffle.

I agree with pseudo

My three have never had headlice, only one has had impetigo (teeny tiny dpatch under one nostril) and only two have had chickenpox

And as wyrd says some of these things come on rapidly. I think sometimes infectious children are sent into school/nursery through ignorance but generally people honestly don't know that child had something or is about the come down with something

Did they notify you that impetigo was going round?

Yanbu to be a bit cross if they didn't.

However as people have said it is a nursery. These things happen and you cannot protect them from everything

Hand,foot and mouth was going round my DD nursery. They had a sign up warning parents what to look for and how long to keep off school. I calculated the risks ( I have an 8 month old ds) but decided to send her in any way. Luckily she didn't catch it

impetigo normally starts off looking like a cold sore, or eczema rash, its only after a few days that you notice it does not go away and then you realise that its impetigo, and you then get help.

Chicken pox is also contagious even when the spots appear, they dont stop being contagious until they are dried over and scabbed.

Common childhood illness are just that common, they are not always easily identified more so when a child suffers from cold sores, rashes, eczema, teething etc...

YABU to be furious, over a childhood common illness.

Fucking fuming? Really?

some people really do make such hard work of parenting and life in general that I wonder how they don't just drop dead from the stress of it all.

Whenever I picked up my little ones any news like that would have been met with a shrug and a roll of the eyes. You'll have forgotten about it in a fortnight. Calm the fuck down. It's impetigo not AIDS.

His immune system is strengthening. Thank the nursery for the opportunity they've given him to be healthier and stronger in later life.

Some things just become more prevalent as time goes by. DD (16) went to nursery but never got half the things people have mentioned here - slapped cheek, impetigo, headlice, worms, hf&m. School brought the joys of headlice, on a regular basis, but she's not had the others.

Chicken pox, conjunctivitis, ear infections, yes. Maybe you should send her to a naicer nursery?

Hope your child didn't infect anyone before you picked them up OP.

its contagious and spreads like wildfire in nurseries, as does chicken pox, bugs, s&d, worms etc

yes they should have notified everyone to warn, but if your dc has it he needs to be absent from nursery till crusted over

Hand foot And mouth shouldn't cause a child up be excluded in England. It's on the dept health guidelines.

All of mine have had all infections/virus's mentioned above and also head lice and worms. Delightful.

Op if you are fucking livid over impetigo you are going to burn yourself out by the teen years.

YABU. What were they supposed to have done? It gets better in a few years' time, in the meantime he'll catch everything pps mentioned and lots of other random infections.