Sick Child and Due to visit family in Ireland

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So my daughter is 3 and a half and we are due to travel via ferry to Southern Ireland on Friday morning. She has been poorly since Saturday with a mild temperature. She woke up this morning absolutely fine so I thought we were over it. Took her to Nursery but had to collect her in the afternoon due to a temperature of 38.4. Got her home and she fell asleep at 5pm so we put her to bed. She’s just now woken up at 3am and been sick and her temperature was 38.4 again.

My question is would you still go to visit family? - She’s not long finished antibiotics for scarlet fever.

TIA for any advice..

My kids are terrible on boats when they’re well so I probably wouldn’t go. I think scarlet fever can occasionally cause infections elsewhere like the ears? I’d get her checked out by the dr.

I would ask my family about their thoughts.

If she's only just been on antibiotics I'd be going back to the dr.

Maybe do a covid test, my niece (similar age) tested positive last week following similar symptoms. Her parents only tested because they'd heard of a few having covid recently, unfortunately it then went through the entire household and my db and sil were both quite ill with it.

Family are aware of her illness - but miss her dearly as she’s not been since November 2022

Yes, definitely do a Covid test. It's everywhere again at the moment.

Is there any possibility of waiting a further day or two and travelling then? Children can bounce back quite quickly.

I don't think it would be very fair to her to travel while she's unwell. You also risk passing the infection to others some of whom may be vulnerable. Are the family you're visting comprimised in any way healthwise?

Sorry this has happened too when you're trying to have a break and visit family.

(Also - and I promise I'm not trying to be a pain, just to inform - the country is called Ireland, not Southern Ireland. There is no country called Southern Ireland. It sounds like it should be the name because of Northern Ireland, but it's not.)

Haha I put Southern Ireland as I wanted to specify it’s not the UK end!

Its my partners grandparents so their in their 80’s and do have health conditions but spoken to them and they are all up for her going! I was hoping they wouldn’t be to be honest as I myself am very anxious in general about going.

As a mum I would agree not to take her, but I feel it’s more of her Fathers call.

Im anxious in case it progresses into something that needs medical treatment.

It’s not covid as test has been done!

So legit wanted to update! Because we turned up and his Nan had bloody shingles that we weren’t told about and my LG hasn’t had chicken pox before!

They knew about my LG’s illness and still wanted us to come - we did need Dr treatment while over there but alls we needed was her NHS number and got it free, just had to pay for antibiotics.