Hand foot and mouth

[SweetDreams9]

Someone on the Reception group chat was saying their DC has hand foot and mouth and they’ve been sending them into school. The child got sent home as he couldn’t eat anything due to the blisters. She says he has blisters all over hands and feet. She then sent him back in on the Friday. Aibu to think this is just selfish? I know she doesn’t work also so didn’t need the childcare

Another child has now come down it so its now spreading around

Same here, there was uproar also when they sent their child in after putting pictures on the Whatsapp group showing open blisters. Why is HFM allowed to spread around school but chickenpox kids can stay off even though HFM can also make you poorly?
It's selfish sending kids in with it even if they are allowed to, especially close to the holiday

There is no exclusion period for HFM:

Keep your child off school or nursery while they're feeling too unwell to go.

But as soon as they're feeling better, they can go back to school or nursery. There's no need to wait until all the blisters have healed.

Keeping your child away from other children for longer is unlikely to stop the illness spreading.

I wouldn’t send mine in but plenty do. I think it’s unfair on a kid to send them in miserable, and also contagious when in my case, I am blessed to be able to keep them off as needed. I think the nhs guidelines are quite lax for sending them in though which would be what most parents follow understandably. They do say you don’t have to wait for the blisters to heal to send them back in. I think though it also says five days off are recommended but I could be wrong. Honestly sickness in kids is just a nightmare. Our nursery has constant illnesses and I know some spread can’t be helped but you get so many sending them in with active vomiting bugs where they clearly need to be home.

Sorry correction I have just read the first five days you are most likely to spread it though you are contagious before symptoms start! I assume this is why they don’t actually say an amount of days off!

Chicken pox can lead to severe complications sepsis and I'm some cases has resulted in death....not the same at all.
But no I don't think they should go in but guidance says they can if well in themselves....not able to eat is not well ...
You can feel awful with it.

Hand, foot and mouth is an extremely painful desease if caught by adults. I caught it when my daughter was at nursery. She didn't show any symptoms at all. I was in agony for several days. So I think YANBU, these parents are really selfish!