To be annoyed that we already have a sickness bug from school

[Flamingolingo]

Only been back at school 5 minutes, after 5 months of education disruption, and eldest child has spent most of today vomiting. He hasn’t been anywhere else all week, so it must have come from school which means that someone has probably sent a child in after sickness (I checked with child that nobody was sent home sick this week).

So now I’m feeling dizzy and sprawled on the sofa, and I’ve got DC1 here with me on Monday now missing a day of school. I mean obviously kids get sick but seriously? Already?

Yep, we had it yesterday. Only a mild dose thankfully but still annoying.
When you think about all the gallons of hand sanitiser that they are splashing their way through at school I was hoping that we might just avoid some of these other bugs.

I’m hoping we might get away with just the morning of vomiting. But still. They’re meant to be keeping school clean and promoting good hand hygiene. There is no hope for coronavirus if we already can’t stop the vomiting.

A five year old vomited all over the teacher's table at 9.05 on day one in our local primary. And when I say all over, I really do mean it.

😱

Thankfully no vomiting but colds all round here. The precautions are clearly doing nothing to stop viral transition.

DD has got a snotty nose already. Friend who has 3 children in the same school also has snotty kids.

8 days in...

I mentioned a couple of months ago saying my greatest concern about return to school would be people would send kids in when children are unwell/someone in household. The number of friends/acquaintances who have sent their kids to school/parties, because the vomiting last night was, “probably because they ate too much/got excited etc” and then we all go down with it.

Vomiting is 48 hrs, and people appear not to be able to manage this. So no hope on self-isolating for 14 days.

I would be annoyed OP.

Yep, cold here. Snotty nose and used tissues on the desk. My DC was upset School weren’t asking the child to bin it and kill it.

Now we have a DC with a cold. Unsurprisingly.

But if they can’t prevent a cold, they can’t prevent covid.

We have one cold already - DC only been to school since Monday. I think all those months of isolation have knackered their immune systems.

See I’m not so fussed about snot, though I agree that it’s not ideal. It’s the sickness, clearly someone didn’t do their 48 hours!

Same here OP. One week back and already have sniffles and off school with this tummy bug.

I have woken up with it today 😒

Speedy recovery to all!

Exactly. Thankfully not vomiting but my year 2 caught a cold that led to a day off school and now the family are catching it one by one. It just shows that the school are not able to prevent infection. The attempts are not working. My kids have been off school since March. They went back and caught this within days. I don’t know what can be done- the school are trying their best but they need to realise that their measures are not working.

Sadly kind of bound to happen - Had to take DS out of school after 2 days when he woke up with a temp, and take him for a COVID test. Luckily that was on a Friday and he was cleared (and much better) the next day. I was glad in a way that at least he was ill enough to be off school under normal circumstances - what would be extra annoying is having to keep them off until or unless they have a negative test if they otherwise seem fine.

@Flamingolingo

See I’m not so fussed about snot, though I agree that it’s not ideal. It’s the sickness, clearly someone didn’t do their 48 hours!

Oh agree. It’s just rude when people send their children in to school knowing they have a vomiting bug. Awful.

My DD has had a cold. She constantly wears a mask, washes her hands and brings hand sanitizer and sanitizer wipes plus tissues to school and still caught a cold. 🤷‍♀️

I've got a cold.

I wonder if mixing together after six months of fairly well isolating means we're that much more likely to catch bugs? (I'm a very unscientific mind, just wondering. . .)

And we got worms a few weeks back, presumably from nursery. Surely worms should have been all but eradicated!!

One of the kids in my class vomited in the waste paper bin at 3PM yesterday. And so it begins...

So schools are back, viruses running unchecked.

What more can they do. They use alcohol wipes, hand gel constantly. I can’t see how we can avoid covid now school is back.

They’ve put so many measures in place, but if it isn’t stopping the infection...I don’t know.

Just colds here but DC only had 3hrs at preschool on Monday. We had a few days away after that and poorly for most of it, now we've all got it

@DobbyTheHouseElk but I’m not annoyed with school, I’m annoyed with the other parent (don’t know who) who must have flouted the quarantine rules somehow. It’s not the school’s job to protect the kids, they basically can’t, it’s the community who need to care for each other by not spreading illness.

www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3484

Vomiting can be a symptom of Covid in children - see this BMJ article

Norovirus in the second week, with a fever, so an excited trip to be tested.

If that can get through hand sanitiser and social distance pretty sure corona will manage.

We all have colds after DS was off of school after 4 days back, apparently 5 children were off on the same day with colds.

Cough and cold and temp here already. Clearly the hygiene precautions are not working.