friends visit knowing they have swine flu

[two2many]

AIBU to be p#### off with a fairly new friend visiting us today knowing she has been sick all week with swine flu , i have other health problems & my ds has asthma , she knows about our health problems ,

I would not be happy at her putting you and Dcs at risk, just cause she's ok does not mean everyone else will be. TBH I think this says alot about her as a person, if it were me I certainly would not want to spend time with someone so selfish

I think this is difficult.

In op's case I think that her friend was selfish to come round whether it was swine flu or any other kind of flu, given there are underlying health problems in op's family. So I would be annoyed at someone coming round even if it was just a bad cold or another type of flu, iyswim.

But swine flu is no longer being formally diagnosed. And if you ring NHS direct with your symptoms and you have two or more of the symptoms of swine flue (sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache, achy limbs, loss of appetite, some others which I've forgotten), they will diagnose you as having swine flu. So it's highly likely that a lot of people with summer colds are being diagnosed as having swine flu..

To suggest that any family of anyone who has had swine flu should be quarantined is frankly ridiculous.

I can understand telling the infected person themselves to stay home, but not all the friends/family. In a few months most of us will have come into contact with someone with swine flu, so if the advice of quarantining those coming into contact with the virus still stands at that point we as a nation will come to a grinding halt and that is just not realistic.

people like this really piss me off. A person should give you a choice whether you want to be around them when they, or their dcs, have an illness.

thanks every1 , she rang me this morning to say her dp & two kids are very sick
she reckons they have all caught her dose ,
my dd (3) went to bed at 9pm & woke up at 11pm constantly sneezing & runny nose & crying , it was 5am when she finally dropped back off to sleep & i got to bed she has no temperature so hopefully just a cold ,
knickersonmahead , i agree , i would never go near any1 if i was feeling unwell , imo it just isn't fair to spread it around ,
i have kidney disease myself , fingers crossed we dont get it ,