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 ?

We all caught a nasty strain of noro - never felt so unwell for so long, and the stomach pains for weeks after...

All because MIL and sister insisted on coming to 1st birthday party straight from holiday where the whole camp had been over ran with it.

Lesson learnt the hard way by everyone!!!

I despise people like this. Absolutely cannot stand them. One is my ex friend bitch

So she has 4yo and 6yo. Her 4yo got D&V from somewhere. Child is puking at weekend. Come Monday, child no longer puking but has diarrhoea so ex friend decides she'll send the poor child to school anyway. Child gets sent home from school. Teacher informs stupid friend that there must be 48 hours from the last D or V before child returns to school. The following weekend friend comes to mine as planned weeks earlier. D&V child now looks fine. My dc and her dc start sharing sweets out. Her 6yo didn't want any and gave hers away to my dc (kids handing sweets to each other). I ask my dc to share properly make sure her 6yo has some, they tell me she doesn't want any. I ask my friend if 6yo is ok. Friend replies: she has diarrhoea but she's fine . Then I learn that 6yo had been off school the previous 2 days with vomiting. Two days later both my kids and me start throwing up. Fucking bitch from hell brought kid with active norovirus into my house and made us ill. It was also December so lovely for the run up to Christmas . I no longer socialise with her and will not say anything other than hi if I see her. Cannot stand such selfish pigs.

I cancelled my dentist appointment because dd started throwing and had caught the bug would have been unfair to attend the appointment and infect others unfortunately this is why the bug is extremely infectious because people still go out.

Utterly selfish.

No individual's appointment is more important than the potential harm they can cause by going out and about with D&V!!

And no, a midwife clinic appointment isn't so important that you shouldn't stay home with your kids or stay home and keep your own bug to yourself. It's just utter selfishness and no consideration for the fact that everyone they come into contact with are now at risk.

I do a clinic then home visits - and could take your horrible bug with me before I've even had symptoms.

So those pregnant women and/or newborns are then at risk of catching a horrendous bug. Both pregnant women and babies will be more likely to end up in hospital with dehydration and it could potentially kill them, all because one person found it too tricky to phone a clinic and explain that they or their kids had D&V and ask for another appointment. Really?

And that's without even thinking about the fact that I'm a human being too and don't want to spend a week off sick. If I'm off it puts a strain on my colleagues and the whole maternity service in my area, plus the women on my caseload get upset at delays and not seeing me when they expect to. There's a massive knock on effect.

It's as simple as this: if you've got the shits or you're puking (or both) you stay home for 48 hours AFTER your last episode of D&V.

That's AFTER to make sure that your body has fought off the virus. You then clean your house, then you think about returning to work and activities of daily life. Keep your shits to yourself and don't be so bloody selfish.

Before anyone jumps on me, I've now cancelled all my clinics till Thursday and that's only if I'm better. The dcs will be off till then too and receptionist so work are not happy at all because they have to cover both of us and rearranging clinics upsets patients.

Btw I always thank patients who call to cancel through illness for thinking of us

People really don't think about the effect on others- and the ripple effect thereafter. I have two examples from work that really boil my blood. A senior colleague of mine once came in MID Norovirus and obviously didn't last the day. My boss had to come in to cover and to disinfect more or less the entire workplace. I'm in retail and this was the middle of Dec, so right when we really don't want anyone sick and can't afford illness doing the rounds. My boss also knows I haven't got a cast iron stomach- anything gastric writes me off for ages and I always catch it. I'm one of her managers so 2/3 managers out with a contagious illness would have been hell. The terrifying bit is that obviously all and sundry pass through our shop. We touch everything on the shopfloor, we frequently handle cash and we do a lot of gift wrapping for people at Christmas. The possibilities for spreading this thing were horrifying!

I also work for a company that has lots of contact between stores and we recently had d&v spread via an area meeting for managers (the manager in question felt ill near the end of the day, too late for everyone else) Boom. His store down one by one and lots of other shops variously affected . To make it worse, we do a lot of cover between ourselves as an area, especially sick cover and this made it worse. I had to get our AM involved to stop my Supervisor going to do pre-arranged cover despite her Dd vomiting. This lady was really taken aback that the Brighton branch and their customers didn't want her germs and that I didn't want her back until the danger had passed either. Especially as our boss was already off with the D&V and we were all aware that another colleague has a DS with a suppressed immune system and colitis.