Am I supposed to have told the school that i am immunosuppressed

[BeyondPreparedForHell]

Just randomly occurred to me earlier when talking to another of the parents.

I have a vague memory of someone saying that their school let them know when there were parents with immune issues, but then i was thinking, its hardly rare, is it?

But then, we were talking about kids being sent to school ill, and i'm sure the school would like an excuse to remind people not to send in their children when they are going to make everyone else ill

What do you think?

children, yes, but never heard anything about parents. not sure there would be much point?

Yes, my children's primary school has informed all parents before when another parent was immuno-suppressed - a parent had just had an organ transplant and wanted advance warning if, eg, anyone's child got chickenpox. The parents, after all, can catch anything the kids bring home.

Glad I'm not completely making it up

Forgot to say, this is also partly due to that "recommended time off per illness" flyer being sent out last week!

Why would you have to tell school your med status? Bizarre! I'm immuno-surpressed (and a teacher) but I didn't feel that my son's school needed to know this.

More likely to catch germs from the average door handle than via your child as host from another ill child!

It wouldn't occur to me to be honest. I am immunosuppressed too and used to work in a school! I think it depends on the level of being immunosuppressed too. If receiving full whack chemo for cancer, I'd be far more cautious than taking meds for an autoimmune disease, for example.

gobbin you just reminded me; I read that an average mobile phone has more germs than a toilet seat.

I'm not overly keen to share my med status tbh, i never told nursery and i havent told the school yet. I just remembered hearing (or maybe reading here? On an immunisations thread perhaps) that someones school sends letters out when a parent is on such meds.

Actually i think that was it, it was someone defending not immunising their child because "they are not going to come into contact with someone who is immunosuppressed/compromised, as the school always tell us when it applies". As I said, we were talking about kids being sent into school ill and the memory popped into my head, but then i was thinking with all the possible reasons for chemo, odds are every school has at least one parent who is!

Oooh never heard that. I am immuno compromised and I am warned to avoid X, Y and Z but I don't need to tell work/school etc.