soiled pants etiquette-is this normal?

[ponyprincess]

My son is at nursery full time and though he is toilet trained has the odd accident. Many times when the soiled clothes are left in a bag to take home, they have just been put straight into the bag along with the full contents, sometimes mixed in with other clothing (socks, etc.)-you can imagine the mess by the time it reaches home. Is this normal for staff not to take the time to dump the contents into the toilet/rinse out pants and put in a separate bag? The bags are left on children's coat hooks to take home, which also seems a bit unhygenic. Am I being unreasonable to expect the time to be taken to dump and rinse? Just wondered what happens at other nursery schools, to have a bit of a reality check!

DC's nursery/preschool always put in carrier bags/napy sacks.

complete with the poo and everything for you to dump out at home?

Always fully rinsed out here. Actually we have had to train them to put hem back in his bag as he only goes once a week so I need the trousers back otherwise they wash them with the rest of the nursery laundry and give them back clean.

I would expect soiled clothing to be put in a separate bag.

They should be rinsed out and double bagged. I think you need to have a word with the Nursery.

Wow Indith, I am amazed they would actually wash them for you! : )

It sounds like I am not just being a hygiene freak and a chat with the teacher is in order, thanks for the advice!

Dumped and quick rinse . And wet stuff put apart from dry e.g dd1 insisted ona complete change even if her socks only got a drop or not. They were always put in a bag apart. Any soiled stuff was in a tied up bag . Wee pants on a small poly bag folded.
I have all this to come in teh next few months again .....

Nursery never sent soiled things home - they washed and dried them, and they became the 'spare' clothing in ds's bag (ready for next time!)

Indith - have just reread; thought you meant your DC only poohed once a week!!

Oh we've been there too Marlin! But no in this case he goes to nursery one day a week, used to annoy me when they kept his trousers to wash as he is very unreliable and has accidents most days so I couldn't be a pair of trousers down all week!

They need a serious review of their infection control procedures!

WE just get it all in a seperate bag for us to deal with

Ds clothes are normally only wet. It's all chucked in a bag. But I wouldn't expect them to dump or rinse just to bag separately in a nappy sack for me todecide whether to bin or wash dependent on state.

It should be dumped and double bagged, separate from everything else.

I went ballistic at ds2's first nursery when they put a pair of dirty pants in his sodding lunchbag. But they were appalling an many ways - it once took them 25 minutes to find his asthma medication - god knows what would have happened if he'd had an attack.

Infection control guidance from NHS is not to manually rinse or sluice but to launder in a hot wash or bag and return to carer.

see p31 here

Link is to Scottish advice but English advice is the same.

Dumped and bagged. Sounds like there's an inexperienced nursery nurse dealing with it. Speak to the room supervisor.

Our pre-school dont deal with poo at all. If a child was to have an accident (poo) then parent is called to deal with it!

Wee on the other hand is acceptable, and wet clothes are tied in a bad and hung on coat peg to be taken home.

All children have their own spare clothes on their peg for any accidents (including getting soaked in the water tray/covered in paint etc)

coldtits that is appalling in the lunch bag, yuck!

thanks greentig, that link is helpful

DanJARMouse, are you seriously saying they call a parent at work if the child has a poo accident?

I guess I could live with wee pants just put in bag without rinse, it is just the poo left in there all day on the peg, and the mixing of the poo pants with other 'dirty' clothes (e.g., paint-splattered, etc.).

Definitely will bring it up at nursery tonight and see how they respond!

Ours always come back rinsed but there has been the odd occassion when I have been told that the pants weren't worth rinsing. I don't mind at all.

Yes I agree with the guidance above, in hospital there is a separate sluice room I wouldn't want nursery rinsing in their sink to avoid spreading bugs

At ours wet clothes were put in a seperate nappy sack - but pants with poo on get chucked straight in the bin!

We dump and rinse. We do not launder. The thought of all those different children's soiled clothes being washed in the same machine as our tea towels (obviously not at the same time!) makes me heave! (i appreciate this is what happens at home though). We were advised by our local H & S inspector that any wet/soiled clothes should be laundered at the local launderette (not very practical

Well I did speak to the headteacher last night at pick up time and she said that it should not be happening and the policy was to dump and rinse, and she would speak to the relevant teachers/assistants to make sure things were done that way--so hopefully, problem solved!

I don't know about nurserys and other day placements, but in care we have red binbags which are supposed to dissolve in the wash. Surely it would be more practical to put soiled clothes in those? They do actually work really well because they keep the soiled stuff seperate until it's been got at by the detergent

I wouldn't rinse them out by hand. I would tip out any solid and doulbe bag it in a nappy bag and put it either on the peg or in child's bag. If the pants were very messy, then I would throw them in the bin.