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?

Immunity system hasn’t needed to work - it’s inevitable:(
My children years ago went to nursery and ‘had’ good immunity. Yes caught every cold snuffles sick bug in nursery but following had pretty much 100% attendance at school for years.
Sick bug already brought home - thankfully mild for them - I had 24 hours of hell :( we not had sick bug in the house for years.

[quote uglyface]@MitziK I had a (year 3) class who were like this a few years ago - the girls kept very convincingly saying they felt sick, and I kept sending them home only to hear the next day that they were fine. Come December, one day three girls who were very close friends insisted that they felt sick so I sat them at the back of the room near the sick bucket, thinking no way are you going home. Well, ten minutes later one puked in the bucket and while I was clearing that up a second projectiled over another poor child’s shoulder and I sent the third down to the loos as a precaution - she made it to the photocopier before throwing up all over the floor 🤦🏻‍♀️

We had a BIG talk about crying wolf after that 😂[/quote]
Teenagers are my area.

The number that have then phoned Mummy from the toilets and said the Big Bad Mean Lady won't let them come home, they've collapsed and they're DYING and nobody will ever know to look for them is ridiculous.

I've been wrong once. Spectacularly wrong. But if 13 of their closest friends hadn't tried the same thing the last time there was a Maths test, I might have been a little more sympathetic prior to the technicolour proof. Not really I gave them a sick bag to take to lesson with them - what more can I do?

Can’t remember who posted that they would rather get Covid than Noro but come on, seriously? A dear family friend of ours died from Covid in May. Noro makes you feel rubbish but doesn’t kill you

Primary school office lady here, full of cold today and ky been back at work two weeks. I’m not the only member of staff to have succumbed either!

i told my nephew not to pretend his ill as he'll have ti have a test and he wont like it(bad gag reflex)

just scare them into it they wont cry wolf

i dont think kids should be sent home just for a cold btw i think thats ott

You don’t know anyone flouted 48 hour rule. Your kids could have picked up a bug from playing in mud, someone standing in cats poo, or the bugs that live in their own feaces. Although agree there are far too many parents who don’t abide by 24 hour rule.

Remind kids to always thoroughly wash their hands after toilet & before eating.

Hand washing helps with some bugs but most are airborne and with barely any SD in schools then bugs will spread rapidly.

@BrandyandBabycham

Norovirus kills 200000 a year.
Rotavirus 500000.

They’ve been off that long that they’re immunity will be pretty much starting from scratch.

If bug is Norovirus, hand sanitiser doesn’t work against it, because of it’s tough viral coat.
It needs to be ripped apart and washed down the sink with soap and warm water.
Norovirus is hideously infectious- we shed the virus for 48hrs after we last puked or had a poo.

Had it early 2020 comes on hard and fast.. and immunity lasts only a few months.
A good article online is
Norovirus- a study in puked perfection.
Read it when recovering once.
Type O blood group so say gets it more severely.
Unfair!

I always got a cold when I switched from one long term school to another. Each school seemed to have its own brew of colds to get immunity to.

I suppose that everyone parted company in March with their own brew of microbes lurking around their nostrils etc. And there we've been for 6 months happily immune to our own brew.
Get the kids back in the classroom and suddenly our immune systems are exposed to the Jones, Smith and Khan variations and hey presto half the school has a cold while our immune systems catch up.

Different strains of virus spread in different ways, and last different amounts of time. Sharing a mild, snotty rhinovirus doesn't automatically mean that Covid measures are failing.

Do a few months out of social circulation really affect the immune system that much? I would have guessed not tbh, but would need to ask a specialist.

Noro makes you feel rubbish but doesn’t kill you

^^and here lies the route of the covid panic. YES IT CAN. I cannot believe people don’t know you can die of viruses that aren’t covid.

YANBU OP. But you can’t stop viruses spreading, whatever it is.

@BrandyandBabycham

Can’t remember who posted that they would rather get Covid than Noro but come on, seriously? A dear family friend of ours died from Covid in May. Noro makes you feel rubbish but doesn’t kill you

Tell that to the hospital wards and old people's homes. It is a significant killer to the vulnerable.

Half my class have a cold already. We wash our hands or sanitise 8 x a day (more if a child goes to the loo). We taught them to wash hands thoroughly. I spray touched areas at break and lunch including door handles, light switches, tables, taps, soap pump etc. We catch it, bin it and kill it. We escort to the loo to avoid kids touching stuff. Children have to stay in their seats in the classroom. Despite all that a lot still have colds. Not sure what else can be done.

@HuntingCuns
Fellow emetiphobe here..
Agree, Noro is terrifying for me..
I shake with fear and rock back and forth when I think I’m going to chunder😐
Alcohol gel just smears the Noro about- does nothing to kill it.
Soap and water is the only way- and bleach the hell out of vomit buckets and loos.

@BrandyandBabycham

Can’t remember who posted that they would rather get Covid than Noro but come on, seriously? A dear family friend of ours died from Covid in May. Noro makes you feel rubbish but doesn’t kill you

Noro kills thousands and thousands of people every year.

I've been back at school since Monday - socially distanced as much as possible, literally doused myself in sanitiser about a million times a day and I already have a sore throat. 🙄

@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!

You do know 48 hours is an average some people can still pass things on after that despite felling well? Passing on a contagious illness has a very large element of chance involve so YNBU to be upset but YAbU to state with such certainty that someone has deliberately come in without waiting 48 hrs after last being sick. You cant know that for sure at all.

I work in a primary school and the children do not have to socially distance. We sanitise hands 7-8 times a day. Send them to wash hands if they sneeze or cough. But when they're playing on the yard, they're jumping all over each other and sat at their desk, they're breathing all over each other. There's not much more we can do. We were 5 children down by Friday with sickness bugs, colds, coughs and temperatures.

It's very annoying when parents send their children in within 48 hours of d&v.

Globally norovirus kills 200,000 each year.

We all got the snuffles within a few days of starting back.

It's a very clear demonstration that any hygiene/distancing measures within schools are precisely 0% effective.

I'm a primary teacher who's caught a cold already We handwash the children to an inch of their lives and I've taught them how to sneeze into their elbow. What can be done?

Pretty sure it's rubbish about the immune system. Yes you have to have had something to be immune. But catching things constantly isnt good for you.
I think the cold shows
Some people in the community are not sd
A lot are going indoors to pubs etc
Tourists may be bringing more than covid back
places like soft play cant help lots of snotty kids indoors.

Re noro it doesnt just last 48h, it's in poo etc longer.
Hand foot and mouth lasts a month in poo

Bear in mind several of you havent managed to avoid catching it despite kids being at school so many hours.
If someone is sick in the classroom they should all really go somewhere else as it's airborne.
Not all stomach bugs are noro

But yes we are screwed as the bubbles huge and if yours is in a big bubble it's ridiculously unfair because you will have
stress aboit getting covid
More likely to get it
More likely to get colds and temp/cough so kids off and being tested

Need smaller bubbles

DS has picked up a cold in the first week. The measures are not going to stop Covid. I think we’re headed towards a second lockdown and a disaster for the economy