I'm in a panic !!! Mindees mum just emailed me to say mindee has worms and please could I be extra vidulant about handwashing and not let her put her hands in her mouth. She's an after schoolee and

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I'm collecting her soon and other mindees too. Should I be having her while she's got worms ?

The mum said please could I let the other parents know. They might feel anoyed if one of my mindees is here and has worms.

Also I'm not comfy with her being here as I don't want myself or my DC to catch them.

Help, what shall I do ?????????

It is fine if she has been treated for worms. My DD's seem prone to getting them which is annoying but i just deal with it as and when it happens!
I do think it is a good idea to let other parents know so they can keep an eye on their child. Also you could treat your family as a precaution.

First, don't panic. Dd has just had worms, and apparently 1 in 4 children have them at any time. They only lay eggs at night, and stay inside the intestine the rest of the time, so as long as dd isn't putting her fingers in the other mindee's mouths (there may be eggs under her nails) they should be ok. NHS direct states that children should continue as normal while having worms.

If her mum has given her medicine, which she is most likely to have done if she is asking you to be vigilent with handwashing, then the adults will be in their death throws, so also good news.

It may pay to give the loo seat an anti bac spritz when she has been to the loo though, just in case.

Still, what a faff for you! Darn those worms, darn then!

I think 1/3 of children have threadworms at any given time - or something equally foul. So it's quite likely that your kids/your other mindees also have worms, and just don't know it....

www.nhs.uk/conditions/threadworms/Pages/Introduction.aspx 40% of under 10s have them, according to this page...

Thank you all. She hadn't given any medicine yet so I told her mum I couldn't have her today. Yes it was a faff. I spent an hour trying to get info from ofsted and NCMA. Both were useless and told me to phone NHS direct.

I thought NCMA would have had at least some guidelines about worms.

Thanks again

I always go with this list from HPA and it says not to exclude.

I wasn't allowed to send DD1 to school until she had been treated.

Might be a good idea to introduce kitchen towel for hand drying, if you don't already?

sympathy x

It would be a good idea to tell the other parents and keep a check on your own family. She might have had the worms for a while before they were discovered. They are very common.

Bear in mind it's perfectly possible she got them from one or your kids/other mindees since worms are so common in young children.

Schools and nurseries rarely exclude for worms, so I wouldn't expect other forms of childcare to do so either.

It is very common. Many children have the and have no itching - although it is the most common syptom, it doesn't seem to both some children (and adults.)

Easily treated by a simple tablet or medicine. Whole family should be treated and anyone in very close contact.

It's nothing dirty or icky - just a common childhood complaint. And a darn sight easier to deal with than headlice too!

Maintain good hygiene and hand washing.
May be wise to have seperate towels/flannels for each child.

fred

She might have got them from you and your family. My daughter got her first bout when we took her out of the state system and sent her to a very posh private girls school.

They say that a whole family should be treated if one person gets worms, so in this case I would strongly suggest all of your family and mindee's families treat for worms as a precaution. You can easily buy the medicine over the counter.

So long as she has taken the medicine then I see no reason to keep her home, but be extra vigilant with hand washing after loo and before meals, separate towel though kitchen roll even better. She should really be having a bath each morning to wash away the eggs laid at night and using a nail brush to remove eggs from under her nails.

Hope her bot is less itchy soon!