PE child endangerment

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My son had a fall at lunch time which left him with a bloody leg since layers of his skin scraped off. But right after that, lunch time had finished so he went to his a PE lesson because he thought he should go for medical attention there since they had authorised staff to do it so he asked for a plaster for his leg but all they did was clean it up with a while and said "There is no point of a plaster since it will fall of during PE" But in that lesson he had rugby on the field (which was very muddy) and this could get his leg infected, not only that he could barely run. So after that he did PE even though he had an injured leg which could get infected and a find this horrific 2 days later his leg became infected. So what do you think I should do? Should I call up the school about his PE teacher. Or should I just leave it and not confront the school?

And if his leg is properly infected, over the counter antibiotic cream isnt going to work. You need proper prescription antibiotics.

Rugby is only played in secondary schools, isn't it? (perhaps some preps which go to 13 too)

"a bloody leg since layers of his skin scraped off"

• so a normal graze? You only get surface bleeding when all layers are broken. That does not mean serious injury!

So a preteen or teen continues with a games lesson despite a graze. No plaster applied before the lesson, as it would come adrift. No problems during or after the lesson.

I wouldn't get worked up over that

Gosh...drama indeed.

Rugby is only played in secondary schools, isn't it? (perhaps some preps which go to 13 too)

No its played in primary schools here (Scotland)

You don't know it was the mud. It may well have been the original scrape that caused the later issues.
It's hardly child endangerment. I think you may be overreacting just a little.

Ludicrous title and over reaction.

Meh, mine was told he was fine after a rugby injury and hobbled to the station with a torn ACL in his knee.
The teachers were horrified but they arent medics and did what they thought was right at the time.
Its overkill in the extreme to complain about a scraped knee.

Infections can happen for many reasons. It is not necessarily the fault of the school. I wouldn't be confronting anyone and just accepting these things happen.

As a First Aider in a Primary School. I would have put a plaster on it just in case. We are liable if something like this happens and a parent complains, we also have to fill in a white slip for every cut, graze or bump.

Bloody hell, one of mine played football through school and still does. They all get scrapes on the field and keep playing unless they are running blood then it’s the blood rule, but s scrape that’s bloody but not running blood they crack on. His leg was just as likely to become infected playing or not.

I worked in ED for 25 years and never covered scrapes, just clean it properly and let it be. Plasters were used very sparingly in our house much to the disgust of our kids!

What happened when you cleaned it when he came home?

My parents used to pour TCP on our wounds. Now THAT stung.
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Pah. I recall a teenage lad writhing around screaming his leg was broken. The rugby coach just shouted “You’ve got another one, get up”.
He did and grew in resilience.
Wrapping a secondary aged child in cotton wool for a graze does them no favours.

If he was so injured he couldn't run then what was he doing playing rugby in PE? And if the cut was so bad he could barely run then a plaster would have been woefully inadequate.

It sounds like there's a bit of exaggeration going on here. See also "child endangerment" and confront the school.

It sounds like a textbook graze and gammy scanning over.

Did you not keep the wound clean and covered once he got home? I fail to see how it is the school's responsibility when you should have been monitoring his injury and treating it at home. You're his parent after all.

DD comes home with dressings regularly, so they can put them on. They have some supersticky ones. Went through the rest of pe ( sports hall not field though) and several days through the bath.

Honestly, sometimes infections happen from a scrape. He could have had a plaster on it and it was already infected from the initial injury, or it could have got infected afterwards. Schools only do the basics, you do need to clean and re-assess at home.

I only put plasters on my kids' injuries if it's actually bleeding, there's not much point really. I find a minor injury heals faster in the open air.

Not quite sure it's child endangerment. Maybe a little heads up at school that his cut got quite dirty during rugby and maybe a plaster might have helped? Alternatively send him in with a pack of plasters in his bag.

Why is everyone assuming a secondary aged child? DD has played rugby in school since she was 7.

If he went to his PE lesson after lunch and has specific teachers for PE I am going to hazzard a guess at him being in secondary school. So he was very likely wearing long trousers in which case his leg wouldn't have been that badly scraped. Definitely a bit of over exaggeration going on.

when you say "infected" do you mean a bit green and weepy, or gangrene requiring amputation, or a bit of life threatening sepsis?

Grazes by their nature are full of road, mud and floor gunk. A good bath when he got home would have stopped his leg falling off.

I am reporting you to social services for failing to address your childs injury. RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT!

In the old days ( before kids were wrapped in cotton wool and treated like snowflakes ) it would have been described as a grazed knee , and life would have moved on

YABU to use confrontation as your method of speaking to your child’s school.

OTT OP. YABU

Are his tetanus shots up to date, OP? The tetanus bug lives in soil, so i nfection following mud in a graze could be dodgy.