Why bring your kids to me with D&V virus

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Just why would you?

I work in a clinic, think dentist, opticians, out patient unit, this week a lady came in with both her dc's for a last minute appointment.
I casually said " oh your kids have broken up already ?" To which she replied " oh no we all came down with d&v bug and I didn't want to waste the chance to get this done before the holidays."
I was about to say " but you're all feeling better now ?" When she literally shot into our staff toilets and the little one turned green and was sick

Now I'm lying here with, you guessed it D&V worried about my other patients and colleagues.

I did sterilise everything after they left I kicked them out
Why do people do this ?

Because some people are selfish knobends

Yep, I hate people who do that too. Working in a clinic doesn't make me immune from your germs, if you're not well enough for work you're not well enough to visit me at work.

Selfish woman

Thank you all, I shall retire to bed stomach allowing knowing I don't live in an alternative universe from the rest of the world.

Can't stand selfish idiots.

SIL cane to visit palm her DD off on us a few months back. Visit was planned but neglected to tell us her DD had chicken pox. She came in the house to tell us and she was back in her car 5 minutes later heading back to Glasgow.

Felt a bit of a twat as its a 200 odd mile journey and shes a single parent but I was very busy at work at the time and didn't need DD catching them.

I am properly cursing this moronic mum right now ffs DD's 1&2 are now officially sick

This is awful. How old are your dds?

Fucking idiot she is.

Seriously, you'd rather take sick children to an appointment than do it on your holidays?

Hope you all feel better soon.

Oh realise you might not want to say exact. Just wondered if one was under 2

I hate this.
I remember my sisters party one year. One girl turned up having been vomiting all day. Didn't tell anyone until she was leaving. Every single person and their entire families came down with the vomiting bug.

My friend also came to see me, sat down and said "Oh, have you ever had chicken pox? Just asking because i've got it and don't want to spread it"

SERIOUSLY CAN'T STAND THIS

I really hope you and your children are better soon

I am a midwife and had some of my clients bringing sick children with them to antenatal appointments. Not on. And extremely selfish. They also let them play and slobber all over the children's toys, which of course had to be thoroughly cleaned and sterilised afterwards. What's on people's minds sometimes is a mystery to me.

Because they are entitled precious people & the world is lucky to have them, so they do not have to adhere to the rules.

How selfish, I can't stand people who do this :(

Hope you and your family feel better soon x

I have a phobia of vomit, think calling ambulance if I'm sick because I can't deal with it. Literally think I'm going to die.

Hate, hate, hate people who do this!

Fucking arseholes! like the mum who brought her child to the pantomime last Christmas, let him share my dc's sweets and then announced he'd been off school that day with D&V. Guess who had a puking child by 3am 🙄

What do the paramedics say to you when they show up just for a person vomiting?

This happens often in the school where I work. Parents are so rushed and so busy that they'll send them in knowing they're 'green' because they simply haven't understood that the 48 hour rule is essential to protect everyone.

It's partly selfishness but also the fact that everyone's a bit more entitled these days. When I was at school a day off sick meant I'd be in bed for the whole day and not allowed out to activities or clubs at night. Now I see so many children off sick playing out and going out to clubs after school. I had one child turn up to the after school club I run who'd been off sick with d&v that day. Her Mum was furious when I said she couldn't attend (the club is held in the school). I can't remember my parents friends being that entitled when I was younger.

To be honest auryene,I think youre being a tiny bit harsh. Midwife appointments are necessary and it can be impossible to rearrange and not everyone has access to childcare.

Nothing wrong with going out with the virus builds up everyone's immune system!

Just kidding. My DC had the CP really bad DD2 had it so bad she needed nearly two week off school, the head called day 3 day 1 she was sent home from school with it after lunch to get that special extra mark for attendance threatened to fine me if I didn't take her to the doctors for a sick note I wasn't very nice on the phone to her after she threatened me and pointed out all the reasons I wouldn't be spreading the virus to unborn babies, babies and people with immunity issues. I followed it up with an email that all the teachers read and commented on their shock that she would say that! When DC had it I had arranged to pick DC up 10 minutes late and the teachers would bring them out to me! The head is whole other thread luckily I love all their teachers otherwise I'd be moving the DC.

Please have your children vaccinated against chickenpox it is not a good virus!

Inknick not harsh at all, if you have D&V you don't have childcare ! You stay home sorry but my DD's are teens/teens and been there done that. I've lost money staying home but it had to be done. Ditto with school you don't send them in. What if the person after is immunosuppressed ? And I have seen patients after this women and her kids, what about them ? Bloody tired and fed up so sorry for the rant

Mimsy They give the vaccine in the US as a regular course, but in the UK they don't give it out. Also, I had the vaccine as a child and still got the chickenpox...

Yup - people are bloody entitled these days. They're also really ignorant about illness. Apparently something like 20% of every visit to the doctor is unnecessary these days, because people simply do not understand about ordinary illnesses and/or they're total hypochondriacs. I think the fact that more people work is adding to the problem too. When both mum and dad work FT it can be really hard to cover childcare if a DC falls ill on a day when both parents have something important that can't be missed. I went via the school office the other day and found a boy I know, aged 9, sitting there green at the gills, looking awful. He had literally just been dropped off by his DM! It was 8.20am. The school nurse wasn't even in yet I was appalled. She had clearly just dumped him and rushed off to work. Poor kid.

Don't even start me on cp both mine had it as babies and of course were too young to build up immunity so caught it again this time really badly when they were older. We ended up in hospital with dd2 for almost 2 weeks

My GPs gave the entire family norovirus just after Christmas a few years ago. This was my first new year with DH and he had bought really expensive tickets to a big fancy ball which we obviously couldn't go to. I also worked as a carer at the time and missed days of work/money because no way could I pass that on!!
They didn't even mention it until my DM rang to see if they were ok as we were all ill. Good start to the new year diet though.

Maybe I am being unreasonable here. I just wouldn't want anyone to miss a midwife appointment.

Also, I do occasionally have the lovely responsibility of cleaning up vomit from waiting rooms. I'm not unsympathetic.