To be annoyed that DS has impetigo and.....

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I was pulled up about it by the CM who has refused to have him since it is contagious (I wasn't sending him anyway, he is off school for the next week) yet when telling me her reasoning was 'So-and-so had it a few weeks ago and their mum had a go at me about where they ahd got it from, so I need to inform the other parents before I can see if your DS can come to me still'.

So, hang on, someone you look after had impetigo, and you didnt tell me and ask if I minded the child being around DS, but you are going to discuss my child with the other parents to see how they feel, and now my DS has it, I have to keep him away yet you still expect paying, when it's probably your other mindee he got it from???

My DS only goes before school, the other mindees all go during the day or are school run kids whose siblings go during the day, so I feel like DS is being treated differently because of this.

I'm really pissed off but don't know what to do.

Do you have problems with her generally?

If not I would suggest that she has learned from letting a mindee with impetigo stay with her. It's just a ballache for you that your dc got it second and she now has this policy.

I wouldn't be surprised if your ds had to stay away until it had dried up. DD goes to nursery and they have a policy that anyone with impetigo has to stay off until 48 hrs after treatement has started as it is so contagious.

I think it sounds as if she started off feeling fairly relaxed about impetigo, then got a bollocking from a parent, has done some research and now has a policy.

I think it sounds as if she started off feeling fairly relaxed about impetigo, then got a bollocking from a parent, has done some research and now has a policy.

can't impetigo start off spontaneously as well as being caught from another person? if that's the case, the other child's mother shouldn't be having a go

Apparently it's not a new policy, or I could understand, she was just using the other parent as an example of what can happen if she doesn't exclude him, and by doing so seemingly unwittingly informed me that a mindee had had it recently, yet I had not been informed.

I think it can start spontaneously through a cut that gets infected or something like that.

Maybe the other mindee's had alraedy been trated. I don't know really. There seems to be a lot of it about.

Impetigo can start spontaneously in that if a child has a spot or scratch it can become infected and lead to impetigo. GS developed it from one remaining chicken pox.

It's easy enough to get, we all have the spores that cause it in our nose apparently, and when those bacteria get into a cut in the skin it causes impetigo, so it can start from anything.

Ds has it at the moment - at least, it's just clearing up.

His housemaster said that it can be picked up from soil, and they often get an outbreak during the rugby season!

Ds is happy - feels fine - but has had a couple of days off school!

Most childminders will ahve a policy on infectious/contagious diseases unless this has changed since you started using her it should be in the info you got when you first signed up, if her policy has changed all parents should be informed at the same time.