To think they should have told us?

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Picked up DD at tea time from nursery to see that 3 kids have chicken pox. The tail end of it but they have it and have been in for the duration.

Ok parents still need childcare when their kid is ill but couldn't the nursery have at least informed other parents?!.

I asked one of the staff and she said 'oh yea, it's making the rounds'.

I thought kids are supposed to be kept off until the spots have healed over?!

My daughter is currently feeling like shit and we are expecting the spots soon .

AIBU to think they should have told parents?! FFS they put out a email notice, a poster on front door and told us inside when we dropped kids off, stating there were nits going around a few months ago but they don't think to inform us about this?

The guidance given to childcare settings is 5 days exclusion from the first spot appearing, according to the HPA
They should have put up a poster though

That makes me mad Busy

busy your not in a park dean resort are you ? There was a boy with some nice big spots on our holiday a few days ago!

I would ask to see their policy and ponder taking it further if they have genuinely been in the whole time. As pp say cp can be really dangerous to some. If i had mine now i would havr them vaccinated.

No Canaries. Definitely still glistening Our son hasn't had yet. It's not that inconvenient if he catches now but that's not the point. Maybe people with Immune issues or pregnant women. It's one thing to not know you are putting others at risk (pre-spots) but this just annoys me. We are having to ensure we move away when they come near even if we have paid to do an activity ourselves

I think it's terrible they didn't warn you - for all they know you could be pregnant or have someone with a weak/suppressed immune system living at home with you.

When OP said they'd been if for the duration I assumed she meant the whole day, not the duration of the infection.

Could you clarify OP?

I think its quite unlikely they've been in the entire time, most nurseries and schools wouldn't accept them in while they are contagious. But once the blisters have popped and scabbed over, they look a horrible state but are not contagious and have to go in to school etc. My dc have had in in the last few weeks! The scabs take ages to disappear completely, especially if they keep picking them like my youngest keeps doing.

YANBU.
They should not be taking kids with obvious infection (new spots) or else need to be clear that they deliberately run the nursery like one big pox party!

Are you sure there wasn't a notice up?

Tbh nursery shouldn't have allowed them in unless spots were scabbed over but you do realise right that by the time they spots were showing it's too late? Your dd had already been exposed for days. It really shouldn't need a notice or staff to say "it's doing the rounds" it's a nursery full of kids it's one of the risks of attending nursery. Surely you are resigned to it when you sign them up?

The symptoms of pretty much all these things are cold symptoms for days befire it becomes apparent it's more than a cold and you can't keep kids off at every sniffle or they would never be there.

Things like stomach bugs pass through poor hygiene so that's something that dies need addressing. However coughing and sneezing and runny noses aren't something you cab do much about.

Busybeez99 it might be inconvenient as some airlines won't let you fly with chicken pox so you may be stuck there. Friends of ours had to fly half the family home & half had to stay as they wouldn't let the infected child get on the plane but insurance wouldn't pay for everyone to stay. It was a miserable end to a holiday.

Yes they are stuck here but should be away from others until spots healed up

I'd much rather her get it young so she can avoid it better when she's older - I've seen what shingles can do

My DD had chicken pox at 18 months, not many spots. She then got shingles when she was 3.

If as you say they have been in every day then yanbu

As pp have said, once the spots have scabbed over they are fine to be back at school. The spots can be visible for weeks afterwards though.

Some schools don't 'tell' you, they just put a notice up. As others have said cp is always doing the rounds as is D&v etc

Bluesky DD here too, very poorly with CP at 6 then shingles at 9.

It's not up to the nursery to decide on whether parents should risk their children catching it / passing it on. They should be telling all parents if any child has it.

I would guess nursery won't accept them until 5 days after first spot although as others have said it's largely irrelevant by that point as they're infectious before the spots. Both my DCs had CP badly and the spots looked awful for a week after they had scabbed. An acquaintance refused to speak to me at toddler group and told a number of people that I should have brought my 'infectious' DS to the group

I've never had a childcare setting inform me about CP and can't really see why they would. I don't have immunosuppressed kids and CP is around every winter so they're as likely to catch it from someone in a supermarket as they are to get it at nursery. Tbh small children are vectors of disease (hence them being given the flu vaccine) and you either take your chances or isolate yourself from them.

Ask to see their sickness policy

Yanbu.

It's standard practice to send out a generalised letter with nits, chicken pox, measles and hand foot and mouth etc.

Some diseases are notifiable such as meningitis and Scarlett fever.

It's almost impossible to stop spread of such infections such as chicken pox because the incubation period occurs 2 days before any signs.