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Is this actually conjunctivitis DD excluded from nursery

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gaaaaag · 01/02/2024 07:25

DD gets gunky eyes / eye almost every time she has a little cold. We've got a virus in the family at the moment. DD is slightly congested, but it's gone to her eye. Her eye is barely gunky. Just a tiny bit around the lashes, more like dry gunk- not sticky.

No redness either.

Like I said, it sort of accompanies a lot of her colds.

Is this actually the contagious type of conjunctivitis? It's annoying because they exclude her from nursery every time for at least 48 hours after she's been on drops to clear it up. Often it just clears up on its own anyway. No drops needed.

She's had issues with gunky eyes since she was born.

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Jingleballs2 · 01/02/2024 15:35

Jingleballs2 · 01/02/2024 15:33

Ds gets this often when he has a cold.. he's never been told to stay off nursery or school, and the NHS information they send out says they can attend with conjunctivitis.

As far as I'm away it's bacterial conjunctivitis that's infectious?

Oh I'm wrong.. I thought it was the other way round 😬

SunSparkle · 01/02/2024 15:41

My daughter got gunky eyes all the time with colds between 6months and 2 years old and then suddenly it stopped happening. I used to send her in to nursery with ointment and reapply it before she went in and when she came out (as they wouldn’t do it without a prescription) but she didn’t have to stay home

hoarahloux · 01/02/2024 15:59

Alongside the NHS exclusion guidance, nurseries have a responsibility to prevent the spread of infection as much as possible, so can set their own policies for potentially infectious conditions.

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