Posted a thread about dsd's school on Friday, can't find it now so won't link. Basically, school sent a letter home on Tuesday saying that 3 children in her year had ringworm and to keep an eye out but not to keep your child at home if they get it.
More and more cases were confirmed everyday, by the time she came home on Friday she was clutching a letter stating that 23 children now had it.
Her yr have swimming at the moment on a Friday, i called the school and told them that dsd was not allowed to go swimming this week as they were allowing all the affected children to carry on swimming and there was clearly a fast spreading outbreak going on.
School were quite rude about it but agreed that dsd would not go swimming, there were a few others whose parents had said the same so they had made arrangements for them to stay at the school and do an outside pe session with another yr.
Some of the parents of the infected children were saying on Wednesday that they wouldn't bother treating until the halfterm....
As far as i am aware the policy is that children who are infected are allowed into school as long as they ARE being treated.
my original thread was basically asking if IABU to expect the school to send these children home.
DSD came home on Friday and told us that she was sent swimming, apparently her teacher told her they couldn't "muck about with lots of arrangements".
Yesterday morning she got up and had a patch of raised red bumps on the inside of her thigh.
This morning it has spread to the inside of both thighs and has moved right down to her knees.
I am fucking livid. And i don't even know if i am being reasonable to be livid.
DSD is now itching like mad, the heat this weekend is making it worse obviously.
DP and I both started new jobs within the last couple of weeks and will now have to beg and plead with new bosses to take time off as DSD cannot attend holiday clubs or childminder with ringworm. (neither of us begrudge having time off with either of our children by the way, but it is going to be really awkward come Tuesday to try and negotiate time off after such a very short time of employment)
DD has severe psoriasis which causes her a lot of pain and embarrassment. (think 90% covered in cracked bleeding skin that looks like burn scars), i am terrified that she will now get ringworm as well which will be a sodding disaster as a; it will be nigh on impossible to tell if she has it and b; the treatment cream will probably hurt her.
If any of you have any experience of ringworm i would be very grateful for advice by the way.