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 ?

I've never forgotten the selfish cunt mum who brought her kid to the nursery Christmas party with swine flu so he "didn't miss seeing Santa". I spent 10 days in bed, sicker than I've ever been until I was blue lighted to hospital when I became unresponsive. My dad spent new year at my bedside because they told him my organs were shutting down and I might not make the morning. All because some absolute wank decided her kid trumped everyone else this was 7 years ago btw and I still get unreasonably angry if I see her.

People are just bloody selfish.
Like the mum at my sons school who turned up to pick up one of her children. The eldest had chicken pox.
She let him run around in the playground at pick up time.
Look, just because your son has a mild dose of it doesn't mean others will be so lucky! She was annoyed that he wasn't allowed to attend school as "he wasn't really that ill".
Or whoever it was that turned up to the toddler group I use with D&V. Had to be there, going by the incubation period.
Well you gave it to my 3 year old who then started barfing up everywhere in the middle of the camping weekend dh had taken our children on. They were so looking forwards to it and it was rather spoilt.
Dh caught it as he had to clear up all the sick. Ds1 caught it too as he helped. Days of work and school.
I then caught it as ds2 did a funky one in his potty and as I cleaned it out, I caught it.
Horrible.

Inick then you rearrange the appointment until everyone is well. A routine midwife appointment is rarely so urgent it's worth spreading a bug to other pregnant mothers or the midwives working there

I had a mum dump her child at my kids first birthday party. She had a lot of headlice and norovirus. My son was seriously ill. I was seriously ill, I couldn't take care of him. My friend had to go to hospital, my then partner missed a week at work (he worked with food) Then once we recovered we had a bloody nit infestation from hell to deal with. Took a month to get rid of them completely.

My dentist has a sign up to say they charge for late cancellations, but they always make allowances for d and v.

Some people are real selfish knobs with no consideration for others is why.

I have a low immune system and regularly ended up in hospital last year with 'just a virus'. At a recent hospital appointment, my consultant was wearing a mask as he'd picked up the same virus but didn't want to let his patients down (have to wait an age for an appointment).

Could have kissed the man on his forehead for his consideration.

Parents who bring their ill kids into school after just being sick, and it's obvious it's tummy bug ill when their kid is stood there looking green, immediately gets filed under my twat list.

Hope you're feeling better soon OP

I've never forgotten the selfish cunt mum who brought her kid to the nursery Christmas party with swine flu so he "didn't miss seeing Santa". I spent 10 days in bed, sicker than I've ever been until I was blue lighted to hospital when I became unresponsive

NotReallyArsed that's awful! someone did similar in DCs last school. Another kid in the same class spent 17 days in Intensive Care after catching it from said kid who's parents didnt want them to miss anything!

@TwoBusyCnuts

The one time they have turned up, they were pleasant. It's an aniexty disorder. Thankfully, I'm not sick that often. And when DS is sick I am able to deal with it. It's when I am sick the problem lies.

I have panic attacks, and struggle to breath while my body is trying to expel the badness. It's pretty scary, and tbh I'd rather have a root canal than vomit once.

But they are aware of my issues, and I have a lot or things in place now. I don't know why I'm feeling the need to explain myself to you but such is the society we live in.

Intheknickersoftime are you for real? Apart from my midwifery clinic visits, I also attend labours and I also visit very sick, very premature babies in NICU, like every other midwife. Do you really think it is more important to go to a routine appointment than the risk those women are putting other women and babies? Do you know that prem babies can and do die of D&V?

I think we've discovered where the problem lies, people forget that we have other patients and it's 'not just us ' I may well have infected a whole clinic of staff and patients thanks to this. Sadly I can't take time off immediately to want and see if I catch it presuming they tell me they are contagious but by the time I am aware I may have exposed chemo patients, babies and old people whose immunity isn't up to dealing with it. Frankly if your sick, stick a bloody Red Cross on your door and don't go out !

aurynne, I thought it was important to go. It can be difficult to change appointments. I'm sorry I even bought it up. God people love to get on their high horses on mumsnet don't they.

Difficult to change appointments?

It's more difficult being in hospital or dead Knickers.

Don't think that's people on their high horse!

I had to ring the NHS once as DS had done something stupid - I explained my 3 had chicken pox but they insisted I take him to the children's hospital

I turned up with all 3 and the nurse screened 'but they have chicken pox!' I said 'I know I explained it on the phone and they sent me anyway'

We were seen straight away - away from anyone else!

So not always Mums fault - he had to go - it was an emergency

I've missed a wedding and a big family birthday because Ds had v&d. Years later I still get accused of being precious. Elderly people, pregnant women and babies at both places for hours eating and drinking and kissing ds. Not on your nelly was he coming.

Totally get this. I have also previously grassed up parents who post pics of their ill child on facebook (why?! Who does that?!) on the Sunday and yet said child is at school on the Monday looking green.
Always reminds me of the Agatha Christie book "The Mirror Crackd from side to side" which... actually I'd better not continue for fear of revealing the plot.

My receptionist, who's 73 and diabetic and a total sweetheart has now caught it
I just can't believe this even my dh is ill. So we are all fighting for the bathroom and feeling crap, because 1 person decided her needs were greater than common sense

I am sometimes amazed at how often people who have been in contact with a specific person with d&v, cold or flu virus develop symptoms within a few hours/day.

I have had 2 dcs in school and the last time I had d&v was 1991 when my dcs were toddlers - did not pick it up from them - in fact do not know where I contracted it. Never developed any bugs from them.

Worked at GP surgery with all known germs but never knowingly picked up a bug from a specific person.

I had a horrendous cold following a long distance flight - haven't got a clue who I caught it from but my dh with severe lung problems never caught the cold. In the same way he has had a virus but I never catch it.

9/10 I never know where I pick up a virus but other people seem to bounce viruses around between themselves!

Well as I did know and I came down 48 hours later ( standard for incubation) I presume that not all of us have your immunity. But luckily my other colleague does and so far seems fine.

With you all the way.
Someone took a sick child to a birthday party, which my niece also attended before my sister brought her on holiday to join us (came straight from the party on to the holiday). Six days later, out of the 10 members of the holiday party, nine were ill, including my daughter who had to go to the GPs as she was starting to show signs of dehydration and my 1yo nephew who ended up in A&E he was so dehydrated. Apparently about 2/3 of the party guests were ill following the party.
We did see my gran on the first day of the holiday before anyone was ill, and were terrified that we might have passed it on - she's 96 and was already ill with a cold (which turned out to be pneumonia and has had her in hospital for weeks. The last thing she needed was D&V).
Think, people. Think.

I'm a SAHM and when both of my dd were preschoolers a friend once asked me if I could look after her dc as they had d&v and their nursery wouldn't have them. She had to go to work and didn't want to take annual leave. Errrrrr...no.

Absolutely horrified by these stories! Why are people so selfish? There is currently a sickness and diarrhoea bug at my child's nursery that just won't go away and they have to keep asking parents to adhere to the 48 hour policy. It's hard to judge whether there is an issue here with employers giving parents a hard time for needing the time off or parents simply being selfish or too casual about their children showing signs of the bug.

We all got noro mothers day weekend (from my little nephew - other family members came down with it too)
We were ill for a week
Dh had his first days off sick for a decade
Ds1 had to be given an injection to stop him vomiting
It was hideous
But we all stayed indoors for a week
My mil left care packages (and bleach!) By the door
Noro is vile and to knowingly spread it is just moronic
I was once in hospital
Woman next to me was vomiting a lot
She stopped eventually but when ideas visiting time 4 people stood round her bed complaining of d and v That morning
Hcps must year their hair out
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Someone at a soft play party my youngest dc attended brought their vomit ridden toddler(vrt) along 'he is better now cos he kept his breakfast down'. He wasn't and a good two thirds of the class came down with rota virus. Confirmed as rota as the original thought was that the soft play centre had given people food poisoning instead so Public Health got involved. Vrt was identified as Patient Zero.

Fuck me, I have never been that ill in all my life. Yes, I send the kids into school with a cold/sniffle e.t.c and once sent the youngest in with cp unknowingly but d&v is a 48 hours from the LAST episode of d/v and is absolutely non negotiable.

I am sometimes amazed at how often people who have been in contact with a specific person with d&v, cold or flu virus develop symptoms within a few hours/day.

Why?

A Dad that brought his kid in for a hospital check up suffering from noro (himself) first thing in the morning had passed it on to the receptionist that quickly shes was sent home by the afternoon and spent a week in the bathroom. She was immunocompromised.

Same with colds and coughs. They're not just a cough or a cold to me or my daughter. (asthmatics) I winded up in resus last year with 'just a cold' I was soldiering on with.

I have a friend who describes herself and her family as having cast iron stomachs. Despite five children going through primary school and avoiding several illnesses & d & v bugs five years later and the only time any of them have ever been ill is when they caught food poisoning from a takeaway.

Basically it just depends on how good your immune system is as to how you fight it off. Mine is shit so very rarely can I.

OP I am SO with you here.

My partner and I have spent the entire weekend chucking our guts up and mopping up our 3 little ones vomit because some twat he works with come in after being sick that morning because he thought that calling in sick would affect his annual review