AIBU to Take Him to Playgroup when Slightly Poorly?

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QS90 · 02/11/2022 07:41

I have a two year old who has a sniffly nose, and a chesty cough (for some reason the cough is only at night). It's unlikely to be Covid as we had it a couple of months ago, and me and my DP aren't ill. He's not ill in himself - that is, still has plenty of energy. He's been like this about a week, not needed Calpol or had a temperature in that time. Still, is this too ill to risk infecting other toddlers? He's my first, so not sure what the social etiquette is, as he's snotty so much more this winter, being old enough to amble about touching gross things all the time 😕

Thanks.

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JenniferBarkley · 03/11/2022 12:19

HerMajestysRoyalCoven · 03/11/2022 11:30

Honestly, this “you’d never leave the house!” stuff is so frustrating. Nobody is saying you have to be under house arrest, but don’t take a snotty coughing toddler who likes to touch everything to a place where there are loads of other toddlers touching everything.

Immuno-compromised people actually struggle to leave the house because people can’t just take a sick toddler out somewhere where they won’t come into contact with other people, like a park or feeding ducks or whatever.

I don’t miss working in the office - I’d pick up so many bugs because every bloody bus journey there’d be a snotty toddler touching the seats and poles and coughing all over everything, with the parent just ignoring it. We’re so bad at practising hygiene in this country.

So yeah YABU OP but you’ve done it now so.

It's true though. I doubt we'll have a single weekend between now and spring where one of dc1 (just started primary school and goes to after school club at a different setting), dc2 (five days at nursery) or I (asthmatic lecturer) isn't coughing or sniffling. And there's healthy DH who gets over things quickly but still catches it all from the rest of us.

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