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scarlett fever

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noogles · 25/09/2007 10:03

Help please, we are going on holiday next Friday to Walt Disney Worl Florida and my DS is in pre school, there has been an outbreak of Scarlett Fever and I am now contemplating taking him out of school until we go on holiday!! What should I do??? i am going to ask the teachers if it was the morning or the afternoon group and whether my Ds plays with the child in question.

Thanks in advance

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SauerKraut · 25/09/2007 10:08

He could be infected anyway- incubation is a couple of weeks, I believe. If he gets it while you're on holiday, you just get antibiotics and it clears up in 48 hours- not so bad. Make sure you travel with all your health forms- you could end up with it too.

lljkk · 25/09/2007 10:09

If it's being treated with antibiotics it's not contagious -- and it is very treatable. DD had a best mate with it and he didn't give it to anybody at his own b'day party when he had only been diagnosed and started treatment 2dys before.

So I wouldn't pull my childout, if it were me. I may be wrong, but I also think it's not that contagious in general to healthy children.

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noogles · 25/09/2007 10:20

I dont even know if the child was i his session I have got to find out when I [ick him up. i know Im over reacting its just that we have had a lot of struggles this past year and this holiday was to put everything behind us and start a new iyswim. I dont want him to not be able to go.

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lljkk · 25/09/2007 10:30

If it's easy for you to keep him off and the hol matters that much I can understand not wanting to take a chance. I just know that DD's mate had it and no one else in preschool caught it from him, and he must have attended when contagious (at least I didn't hear about any other cases). I read up on it and it tends to hit certain high risk children -- like asthmatics and others already under the weather.

LadyTophamHatt · 25/09/2007 10:33

ds3 had scarlet fever jsut before xmas.
doc gave hima 10 day course of anti-bs but within5-6 day all signs of it had gone and he was back to himself within about 2 days of the anti-bs starting.

it really wasn't to bad.

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noogles · 25/09/2007 10:36

OK feeling a bit better now you have all said this,thanks guys.So if he gets it will he still be able to go on the plane?

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BadKitten · 25/09/2007 13:01

The Health protection agency say that children should be excluded from school until 5 days after the start of treatment. I'd say this would apply to plane journeys too I'm afraid. Incubation (according to HPA) is 12hrs to 5 days (average 2 days). I think its a strep throat infection but the strep also causes the scarlet fever rash .

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