Cold sores

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DS aged 7.5 months had first day at nursery yesterday.His named nurse had the most massive cold sore I've ever seen. Am I being unreasonable to be a bit concerned about ds getting infected? Cold sores are pretty contagious, but then again I guess there's not much the poor woman can do about it!

Well, there aren't dozens of other children in the nursery. When we went on Weds I counted 8 children in total and 3 nursery staff.

I am wondering what they can constructively do. Are compeed patches really that good? Because if they speed up healing and decrease the risk of infection, maybe that would be a costructive measure that the nursry could take?

I don't have any personal experience of Compeed patches....but they advertise themselves as "helping to reduce infection"

I phoned the nursery in the end, and spoke to one of the managers. Apparently they have a policy of asking both staff and children with cold sores to get medical attention before returning to the nursery; they weren't aware of the ahem cold sore in question and would investigate (and of course I suppose I could be wrong about it, I'm not an expert on cold sores, but that's what it looked like to me).

I would feel a bit bad though if the nurse in question lost pay over this, I think they should be getting sick pay and wouldn't mind putting something extra towards it.