Scarlet fever/ strep a possibly in kids and took to visit granny ?!

[WorriedandScared93]

Would you accept this or at least be slightly annoyed? I have a 4 month old daughter. Me and DH took our daughter over to MIL a couple of days ago. Didn't realise our niece and nephew had been over there to stay the night before. BIL and SIL had gone out Xmas shopping and left the kids with grandma.

Both kids have temperature and an itchy rash. Suspected scarlet fever I suspect. Although this wasn't told to me and DH.

However this is all being 'downplayed' by MIL to say they are ok, just have a temperature and is on penicillin for it?! Why would you need penicillin for a temperature? It annoys me how she just shrugged this off. Probably because she knows I would keep DD away with fear? Not sure if maybe we just should or at least been told so we could judge ourselves whether to keep our distance. My DD has had RSV and a bad case of Broncolitus for the past couple of weeks and it's only this week we have managed to take her out only for walks.

Also grandma has a disabled daughter with Down syndrome so it would have put her at risk also.

BIL and SIL didn't tell grandma that they were coming, just dropped the kids off as a nice surprise (even though they are ill). Not sure what to think about it? The symptoms they have are really showing as strep A. But I think this has been kept from us.... Apparently both kids are on antibiotics to 'fight' whatever it is they have?

I've not stressed how worried I am with fear of upsetting people ...?

How do I get this moved to AIBU?

OP strap A isn’t the massive risk that covid was (to vulnerable people). Please try not to worry.

Thanks @Facecream

I was more worried grandma had contracted strep a or whatever it was that the little ones had (maybe scarlet fever) and had given it to Nan and grandad and my DD was being handled by them just the next day.

Nan and grandad are only in their early 60s also

Hopeful bump

If niece and nephew are on antibiotics then they won’t have been contagious after the first 24 hours, thus the likelihood of them passing anything on to MIL and then your DD are very small. I’d not worry too much on that front. If your SIL and BIL have been told that they aren’t contagious after antibiotics by the doctor then they’ll feel reassured that they aren’t doing anything wrong in going out and about; and from a medical perspective, they aren’t, if the DC don’t feel ill (which many don’t, strep throat can be pretty mild in children.)

I think a lot of people PIL’s age see strep throat the same way as chicken pox: for both, whilst medical advice may now be different, decades ago it was just a run of the mill mild childhood illness that all kids picked up, and going about life as usual (or chicken pox parties!) was the norm.