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I thought that nits in school was bad enough.

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StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 01/12/2009 22:11

DD brought home a letter today saying that scabies is going round the school.

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Goober · 01/12/2009 22:14

You haven't lived until you've tried scabies.

Olihan · 01/12/2009 22:15

Next it'll be impetigo.

Don't worry there's loads of minging things they'll come home with .

choccyp1g · 01/12/2009 22:21

Then there's worms I'll say no more in case anyone is eating at the keyboard.

edam · 01/12/2009 22:24

Scabies eek. Thought the threadworm letters were yucky...

Dh's auntie got scabies in a nursing home, poor woman.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 02/12/2009 07:38

Eek indeed edam, I got scabies working on an NHS ward about 12 years ago.

debs227 · 02/12/2009 12:13

That's nice.......we had a letter home stating that Hand, Foot & Mouth was going round the reception class. I'd never heard of it before!!

Addictedtothepc · 02/12/2009 16:24

And then they'll catch Molluscum contagiosum which takes a good couple of years to get better - that's right YEARS!!!!

edam · 02/12/2009 20:19

MaggieNollaig · 02/12/2009 20:20

molluscum is the one that terrifies me!

that hand,foot and mouth went round my son's creche two years ago. That was bad. SOme ugly faces, only the mothers could love them. HIDDee USS.

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StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 03/12/2009 15:14

Now I just thought I'd google molloscum as have no idea what it is and buggery arse, arse, bum I think DD has that on her hand. I noticed some "warts" last week but now think they look like pics of molloscum.

How do I know which is which, GP or chemist for treatment?

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Nefertari · 03/12/2009 16:49

Just a little comment about the molluscum. DS got this when she was about 5-6, and it lasted about a year. Doctor said it would get better when her own body recognised it as an infection, and that this could take some time.

Now, one day she fell and got a scratch that cut into one of the warty things, and drew blood through the "wart".

Very quickly, the warts began to heal up. I wonder if the blood going through the wart had enabled her body to recognise the infection.

So, when my ds began to show the warts, I waited about 2 months to see if they went (and one was in a very uncomfortable place for him). When they didn't, I lightly scratched one, drew a tiny, tiny drop of blood, and lo and behold within a week they cleared up. DS was sooo relieved about the uncomfortable one.

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