To want to scrub DS's school down with dettol *mostly lighthearted*

[mumonashoestring]

as well as the kids in his class

I know it's normal, I know it's important for his immune system to be challenged, but I am completely fed up with my lovely cheerful little chap coming home with colds, coughs, viruses and now cold sores and spending his weekends poorly and sad.

Bloody plague-ridden miniature savages...

[swizzlestar]

Ah yes, the year R rite of passage..... We're going through this with ds. Unfortunately he has glue ear and enlarged adenoids to add into the mix, so really hasn't been well since he started in September. He's been coughing for 6 weeks I worked out this morning!

Dd on the other hand, has the constitution of an ox!! Rarely gets ill.

[fieldofschemes]

I work as a cleaner at a Primary school and it's very true, as a pp said, I leave the school spotless in the evening and by the following afternoon it's back to square one. I'm very careful about cross-contamination and sneak in bottles of bleach though.

[Justwhy]

I had ringworm in my class for many many weeks. I got it on my arm.

In the 4 years I worked in the school not once was it deep cleaned. Nor the carpets cleaned. I'm surprised I'm not dead.

[LBOCS2]

My delicious, lovely, snot ridden germ monster has so far this year given me scarlet fever, hand foot and mouth and no less than three really heavy, disgusting colds. She does a particularly good line in coming in for a cuddle and doing a really big cough in my face.

She doesn't start school until next September. I'm not looking forward to it...

[2fat2care]

No kids get immunity from "dirt" i.e. mud, or eating things of the floor, or being in the garden and licking snails. They don't even get ill from stuff like that. The likelihood of bacteria being in the kind of numbers on things like that to make them ill is very small.

Viruses (cold, stomach bug, flu etc) exist in normal environments where other people are. and on things that other people have touched. and on food that other people eat.

This seems to be a fundamental difference that many people don't understand.

And OP YANBU!

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

Can you do my DS' too? There is a sickness bug going around that is pretty nasty atm.

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

All the kids in the school nursery had chickenpox last year at same time too. Lovely little virus carriers.

[Ericaequites]

I'm in the United States. State schools have closed for a deep clean after d & v bugs sent more than half the school home. It makes too much sense to have this occur every half term/bank holiday in primary school.

[Gingernaut]

Yesterday morning, a small child on the way to church with his mother decided to come over all 'Exorcist' on the bus as it was pulling into the bus station.

I was three sets of seats ahead and the other side of the bus from him, but wherever I went in town afterwards, I could smell vomit.

We told the bus driver and he took the bus out of service.

Great. I've already had colds (with the accompanying wheezies and labyrinthitis) and nits (no children of my own).

I could really do without a close up view of the toilet bowl....

[elliejjtiny]

YANBU

My 3 year old is going to have yet another operation cancelled (3rd time this year) because once again he has a cold.

[mumonashoestring]

Gingernaut oh yuk, hope all that stayed with you was the smell

ellie oh that's so unfair on the poor little chap :( At least we haven't had to put anything like that off for our little plague-vector

Rubberduck hehe YANBU also, what a time that would be for a cold! And yes, tissues do seem to be considered a bit of a luxury item by some. Ew.

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

Our school was very quiet this morning. Hardly anyone around and I am wondering how many people the bug took out.