Nursery and Threadworms (gross!)

[DulwichMum1234]

My DD has recently started at a nursery (forest school setting), so outside, non flushing toilets, etc. So far all was going well until to my horror I discovered she got worms! It took us a while to figure this out as we never had them before (but now looks like we will never get rid of the buggers!). We are treating DD and notified nursery immediately. I suggested that they should notify other parents. Their response was pretty much ‘thanks and we will be extra careful with children’s handwashing’.
I am surprised they haven’t notified parents. Surely if people don’t catch it and treat it right away the kids will just keep giving it to each other? I am so disappointed by their response that I am thinking of taking her out (she is only going for the summer) and also because I do not want her to get them again. AIBU?
Please vote:
YUBU- nurseries don’t need to notify parents
YANBU - push nursery to do more or leave

Are you treating everyone in the family and not just her?

YABU. They are very common, and how do you even know she got them there? One of your other family members could have picked them up elsewhere.

Compost toilets have nothing to do with catching worms, unless she has been climbing into the pit and eating the contents?

dementedpixie - yes we are all being treated.

rosiejaune - 🤣😂🤣 Who knows, maybe she did eat the pit contents! Yes i am actually hoping that people would say this is normal/happens all the time as we really like the nursery otherwise!
Do you think they should be letting all the other parents know though? If you experienced it in your nursery what did they do?

Not necessarily to do with forest school! Kids get them all the time; it’s really common. Small kids just aren’t that good at hand washing etc. Please don’t worry too much about it. It’s a bit like headlice. They’re gross, but most kids get them at one time or another. The nursery won’t be unduly concerned.

Thanks NataliaOsipova. I think my main concern was the relaxed approach of the nursery but I am now comforted by the responses here ie that this is probably a run of the mill issue for them.

I never had worms as a child but my four kids have each had them several times. I spoke to a pharmacist about it and she said that there aren’t really any official stats but in the twenty years since she started in her job she reckons she gets about 100 times as many people coming in asking about it now as she did back then. She reckons it’s increased in prevalence so much that it’s basically now just circulating normally through the population as though it were the common cold.

I’ve found the treatment (the liquid in the little cup) to be incredibly effective if used once, then once two weeks later. I don’t bother with all the wiping down and hoovering and boil washing because I’d be doing it every month!

Yeah I informed DD's nursery when I found she had them. They weren't really bothered, just said they would remind them all about hand washing more (pre COVID). Unfortunately it's just one of those things like head lice.

yabu
they are very common.
tbh I prefer them to head lice - so much easier to treat...