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To worry about dog poo on dd?

20 replies

Polly987 · 16/02/2019 17:58

Dh and grandparents think it's nothing to worry about but I am. So dh took kids to meet grandparents at a local pub for lunch, then kids went back to their house afterwards. Dh came home and planned to pick them up later after they'd had tea there, as grandparents had offered. I've been at work and just got home.

Apparently dd (8) came running in from the pub garden where they'd been playing, upset because she had dog poo on her. Dh says it was all over her trainers, up her leggings, and on her top down one sleeve. They'd been playing with a ball they found and she didn't realise it had landed in dog poo, when she picked it up she got it on her, as well as slipping in it.

Dh says he took off the shoes and took her to the toilets, washed her hands with hot water and soap thoroughly, then used paper towels with hot water and soap to clean the dog poo off her top and leggings. She had wellies in the car boot so he put her in those and left the dirty trainers in the car. He said she was fine afterwards and they then had lunch in the pub. Then the kids went back with grandparents and dh came home.

I've just got home and he's now gone to pick the kids up. I'm worried that dd could have caught something from the poo, even if her hands were cleaned afterwards, she's been in those clothes all afternoon. There must be some residue left behind on them, though dh swears he got it all off, but with paper towels, soap and water? Surely they wouldn't be properly clean unless washed in a machine at a high temperature? She would have been eating and sucking her thumb in the meantime too. Am I worrying too much about catching something? I'll make sure she has a shower when they get back and I'll wash the clothes, should I buy a worm treatment tomorrow just in case? Dh can deal with the trainers.

He said when he went out to look at the pub garden after it happened there was a lot of dog poo on the grass, if only he'd gone out there with them and checked all was ok before letting them play...

OP posts:
ClaryFray · 16/02/2019 18:10

Yabu

At 8 she will live.

PinkGin24 · 16/02/2019 18:14

Jeeeesus Hmm overreaction much.

ApolloandDaphne · 16/02/2019 18:14

She will be fine. Don't worry.

BarbarianMum · 16/02/2019 18:15

When I was a child this happened about once a week. Give the clothes a good wash when she gets home. Your dd will be fine.

Vulpine · 16/02/2019 18:16

The person to blame is the bastard twat of a dog owner. Why are so many dog owners selfish gits?

reluctantbrit · 16/02/2019 18:17

DD helps at the Riding stable regularly on weekends for a full day. She often has horse poo all over her clothes until she is home and able to change.

She wears gloves and obviously washes her hands before eating.

4 years later and she still is alive.

hidinginthenightgarden · 16/02/2019 18:17

She will be fine but I wouldn't be impressed that she had to eat her dinner covered in dog poo. I would have expected DH to go home and bring her some fresh clothes to wear.

PCohle · 16/02/2019 18:18

She will be fine. She's 8 years old not 8 months.

Do you really throughly check everywhere she might play for dog shit? Accidents happen.

MattBerrysHair · 16/02/2019 18:18

I'd feel the same as you Op.

werideatdawn · 16/02/2019 18:18

Yabu to be cross with DH. I wouldn't have expected someone to leave dog shit in a pub garden so I wouldn't check for it.
She'll be fine. Calm down.

PeterPiperPickedWrong · 16/02/2019 18:22

Given the risks YANBU to be concerned re the dangers BUT if her hands were properly washed she will probably be fine. I doubt she then licked her hastily wiped clothes so wouldn’t have ingested any but it is grim thinking about it.

www.gspca.org.gg/page/dog-faeces-facts

Limensoda · 16/02/2019 18:28

Not nice but not lethal. Your DH took care of it.

TheGreenDot · 16/02/2019 18:32

I would be annoyed too op. I sadly would think worst and be thinking about dog shit causing blindness and all sorts.
In reality I’m sure she be fine.

Cherylshaw · 16/02/2019 18:39

Dog poo is not very dangerous if it were cat poo that's a different matter I wouldn't worry, when I was a kid I was sledding down a hill (no snow - can't remember why) and landed in a cow pat face first - don't feel I need to go into detail on where it ended up. 20 years later I'm still alive!

NotCisJustWoman · 16/02/2019 18:49

I can see why your worried because you hear worse case scenarios of children going blind after rubbing eyes with hands that have had dog shit in them.

A lot of kids wipe their hands down their jumpers, or nose on sleeve. I see it a lot when eating eating if it's a finger food then hands wiped on trousers and jumper instead of napkin and then back into their mouth. If you dd does this I can understand your concern.

I wouldn't be rushing to a and e but I do understand where your concern is coming from and even wiping her clothes with a paper towel it must have stunk still and can't have been pleasant for her or others eating around her.

I wouldn't be angry with dh though.

Polly987 · 16/02/2019 18:51

Ok thanks for replies, seems I'm letting my anxiety run away with me. Absolutely agree that you shouldn't have to check a pub garden for dog poo before letting kids play, unfortunately this pub has a history of it though and it's been there before when we've been, not just 1 but 3 or 4 piles and smeared in a small area of grass. My friend had the same thing happen when she went there once and complained, not sure if it's customers dogs or the landlord's. Dh said he forgot there had been poo in the garden before when we went and also about our friends having the same issue. If he'd mentioned he was going to that particular pub I would have reminded him about the poo smeared garden.

OP posts:
formerbabe · 16/02/2019 18:55

DD helps at the Riding stable regularly on weekends for a full day. She often has horse poo all over her clothes until she is home and able to change

Horse poo is very different to dog poo as far as I understand.

burritofan · 16/02/2019 18:56

Stop going to that pub!

wonderingsoul · 16/02/2019 19:03

I wouldn't be happy with her having to sit and wat in the clothes. Purely from a ew and small factor. That couldn't have been nice for any one in there.

But I do think your anxiety is running away , it's happened move on from it x

Highlandcathedral · 16/02/2019 19:27

As others say, don’t worry. And you don’t need to get a wormer, dog worms are not transmissible to people, although toxocara eggs can affect them, it doesn’t give them worms. Worms are generally species specific.

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