Cases of measles in school

[Savanna669]

My DS son has seen two cases of measles. In nursery but apparently they have siblings in different year groups. Children who are immuneocomprised are being told to have three weeks off. Parents are keeping their kids off now due to various things. school is stopping mass gatherings such as assemblies. Should we worry?

Not if your child is vaccinated

Exactly

What we should worry about is the parents who put their children at risk by not immunising them

Why would you worry? Presumably your DC is vaccinated?

And the immunocompromised children and parents who have little choice….

Is your child vaccinated? If so, then you don’t need to worry.
As a society we do need to worry, however, that a disease that was almost eradicated has come back because of anti-vax nonsense.

My DS son has seen two cases of measles

He's 'seen' two cases? What exactly do you mean. The children are in nursery, yes? Is your DS also in nursery?

Idiots who don't vaccinate should worry

If your child is fully vaccinated, he has about a 5% chance of catching it if exposed. If unvaccinated, there is an incredibly high chance of catching measles if exposed.

Is your child vaccinated OP?

my dd caught measles and she was vaccinated! If they are vaccinated they get it much milder so don’t panic so long as your child is vaccinated

Yes, worry. Keep them off - the school should be doing way more according to current regs. Even 5% chance of developing measles (if vaccinated) is too high - it can and will kill. It also can cause deafness, brain damage, encephalitis. A specific feature of measles is that it also wipes out your immune memory so that your body forgets how to fight every single infection it's ever learned and your immune system is decimated.

Measles can stay in the air for 2 hours and people are infectious for four days before they even have a rash. One person with measles will infect 90% of the people they come into contact with.

We've forgotten how dangerous this is because we pretty much eliminated it, it's very very dangerous for children.

Is this in the UK? Where roughly in the country are you?

Even vaccinated I would be worried and keep off school if DS had been near anyone who had been near the kids with measles.

Why is there no need to worry if vaccinated? They aren't 100% effective and the immunity can drop off after time.

Yes, UK. It is the east midlands

Sorry, I meant my Ds school has two confirmed cases of measles in nursery. But they have siblings throughout the school.

My Ds isn’t in nursery and is vaccinated.

Worryingly, my friends Dchild is in nursery and the parent of the child actually tried to bring their child into school this morning. Obviously the child was turned away but parents over heard and he said it didn’t matter as the rash was under clothes.

If your child is not immuno-compromised and was vaccinated against measles during the last 5 years, I wouldn't worry.

I feel sorry for that child

If your kids are vaccinated then try not to worry

If someone else wants to put their kids at risk of death from an entirely preventable disease because they’ve watched a few tik tok videos from crackpots and done some “research” (googling) let them get on with it

it should be compulsory to vaccinate to be able to send your kids to school like it is in Australia

I was going to say if the nursery is in a different building it might be okay, but unless the siblings of the poor sick kid is staying home, then the school in general isn't safe.

My son was very ill with German measles. He was 1 and had a bad febrile convulsion. He was hospitalised for 4 days. I asked my gp whether I should get him immunised against measles. He said it was absolutely imperative that he got the vaccination because he’d been so ill with a normally very mild illness. He had the jab and then a year later there was an outbreak of measles. He was at a child minder’s at the time. He had 3 spots on his knee. I took him to the gp who said it was a case of measles in a vaccinated child and this should now give him life immunity.

It’s not only the risk of death. There’s a risk hearing loss as well as of brain damage. think that many are unaware of this

If your DS is vaccinated I wouldn’t worry about him catching measles- the chances of him getting it when vaccinated are extremely small and even if he did he’d likely get a very mild case.

I’d be more concerned about that number of unvaccinated children though - so irresponsible of the parents

Nursery is a different building but they still go into the same dinner hall as all other year groups, just slightly earlier and then they go back before the other year groups go on dinner. But they still mix in places like breakfast club/after school club etc

It absolutely should. Measles is a horrible, horrible disease and the most infectious disease among humans ever.

It's child neglect to fail to protect your child against avoidable diseases because you saw some loony crackpot nonsense on social media.

Americans are now refusing to protect their kids from any of these diseases including measles and meningitis. Aside from the MMR / autism lie, many of them seem to be taking anti anti vax stance because it is de rigeur for right wing politics.

It absolutely beggars belief. The USA is going to start having outbreaks of all sorts of previously eradicated diseases simply because 'politics'..