About coughing children in shops…

[3cats2kids]

Just seen a mum pop in to a shop near me for no essentials, just sweets, with a child with a bad cough. I’ve seen this a few times recently. I think it’s irresponsible at the moment. I also feel it’s a bit mean to drag a sick child out and about at the best of times. I didn’t say anything as I wouldn’t upset a child, but am I wrong to quietly judge?

God I just…I don’t care any more. I don’t.

Perhaps we should just lock all kids up OP? Stay on the safe side.

YABU. Sometimes I have no choice but to take the kids out to the shops. At the minute we all have horrible coughs. We isolated until we had the covid test results back (all negative). The world goes on. Shopping needs to be done.

I often wonder when I see school age kids in schools on school days at the moment. Are they off because they're isolating? Seems to be a lot of kids around during school hours at the moment. I would never say anything though or give funny looks, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation!

How dare they go into a shop for anything other than toilet roll or pasta!!

It's a cough so it must be covid of course, no one coughs for any other reason than covid.

If you're uncomfortable buy your loo roll somewhere else?

I think you should ban everyone from the shops so I can have them all for me

My DS has a cough at the moment, he has been tested for covid and is negative, he just has a cold. Yes that mother was ONLY popping in for sweets, but I her child is ill maybe she was buying them to try and cheer the child up or to get them to eat anything if they haven't been eating, or God forbid they might actually be for her to keep her going or make her feel better. In regards to mothers taking sick children outside, not all mothers have someone to leave the children with.

I have asthma and cough a lot - I also sometimes go to the shops solely for wine and/or sweets 🤷🏼‍♀️

Glad my cough keeps people away to be honest

get a grip for the love of god , her child could have a scratchy cough due to hayfever , mine has a cough when she gets it as do i . .i dont have the luxury of staying at home and not working so i dont cough and upset a fearful snowflake , i honestly think at this point anyone whos this scared needs to stay indoors whilst the rest of us try and live our lives as normally as is possible at the moment

My DD age 3 had a bad cough a couple of weeks ago which we all then caught. All had a negative covid test so just carried on as normal.
I did feel very judged each time I was out with her when she coughed.

How do you know they had a bad cough and it wasn't just a brief onset of hay fever or something caught in their throat or had swallowed a drink down the wrong way and was taking a while to be okay again?? When this happens to my ds and you get looks... It's fucking annoying

A friend of mine has a child with cystic fibrosis and a bad cough is very much part of the deal. No way should she be expected to keep him home

@TerritorialPissings

We are becoming a country of wet dressing gown sleeves

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So true

My son’s hay fever symptoms present with coughing. Should he stay at home for months?

We have access, like many, to LF testing. He tests negative.

Categorically YABU.

When my kid gets a cough, it goes on for weeks

Lots of adults have permanent coughs

@TheVolturi

I often wonder when I see school age kids in schools on school days at the moment. Are they off because they're isolating? Seems to be a lot of kids around during school hours at the moment. I would never say anything though or give funny looks, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation!

Me too actually! My toddler recently played with a 6 year old in the playground on a school day 🥴

Another mumsnet classic....roll up roll up 😆

Oh for goodness sakes...there’s a bug going round with an awful cough, it’s not Covid. Do you honestly think they wouldn’t have tested. If you don’t like it, don’t go out 🙄

What everyone else said. YABU with big phlegmy knobs on. DD3 - yes, with a negative covid test - accompanied me round Sainsbury's today on what is her second full week off nursery in just over a month. We were twenty minutes all in. No one batted an eye though I did wonder what the self-service lady was thinking when she came over to authorise our Calpol purchase and DD looked up at her and said, "That's for me because I'm not feeling very well today".

Children cough. Often even when they are not even ill - they cough. We are just taking more notice now. I've seen plenty of adults cough in public with no respiratory hygiene either. Not just kids.

DS coughs all the time. He's autistic and if he smells something he doesn't like it makes him cough but he does know to cough into his elbow! Dd coughs all the time due to hayfever.

Saying that, Dd has got a new hideous cough this week. She's tested negative on pcr test so we do not have to isolate but she's been off school and I've not taken her anywhere public. Just because I don't want her to spread the virus she does have - whatever that is and I don't want any hate.

But as above its not just kids. I've taught my kids good hygiene with coughing and sneezing. Some adults do not understand it yet.

A woman walked past me very closely the other day coughing her guts up. Likely it was just some kind of smokers cough (she had a fag in her hand) but why she got so close I don't know! Basically coughed in my face as she walked by!

It's people like you that have kept me from going anywhere whilst I have my annual hay fever cough. Had multiple PCR tests, all negetive. I just hate the judgement and feel like I can't go anywhere as people will judge me

Any chance they were buying cough sweets?

Are people still talking about 'essentials'?

That ship has long sailed surely

Did you not hear children cough pre Covid OP?

@Namechangedlady

It's people like you that have kept me from going anywhere whilst I have my annual hay fever cough. Had multiple PCR tests, all negetive. I just hate the judgement and feel like I can't go anywhere as people will judge me

Ignore them, the covid police aren't worth worrying about.

If they're that concerned they should stay at home!