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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:02:54 GMT -5
So, DD got hand, foot and mouth disease last week from someone at daycare. I don't blame daycare or anything because, with this virus, by the time you know you've got it, you've already infected everyone. The doctor at urgent care told us that "adults don't get it, you're fine!!" Uh huh. Well, both hubby and I got it. I'm currently sitting here trying not to scratch my hands off. so for those of you out there that have kiddos in day care, what's the next thing I'm going to come down with Give me something to look forward to...and to take my mind off this ^{}~%}£ itching.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:05:48 GMT -5
My kids got every cold that went through the daycare but nothing more serious than that. I am so sorry you all have to go through that!! DD contracted some mouth disease when she was @ 1 but I blame that on finding her chewing on a flip flop when we were at a picnic.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:06:24 GMT -5
pink eye, which isn't a specific virus, but I got it a ton.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 23, 2013 7:13:55 GMT -5
My kid's daycare passed every cold bug and stomach bug around between them. For a while, everytime he got a cold it turned into an ear infection. Then they passed chicken pox among themselves, but that actually wasn't too bad, because DS was only about 3 when he got it, and he got a mild case. Never ran much of a fever, didn't itch much, didn't seem fazed by it at all. Apparently, the older you are when you get it, the harder it hits you; our pediatrian said some parents would try to find kids with chicken pox to purposely expose their kids when they were small. So that wasn't bad.
The good news is DS developed an iron constitution. Kids that don't go to daycare usually end up spending kindergarden and first grade sharing various cold bugs, but kids who attend daycare - not as much. I think he had strep throat once when he was in 2nd grade, and once again in high school, and that's been it. So it gets a lot better!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:22:21 GMT -5
I got foot and mouth a year or two ago and I thought I had strep throat. I went to the doctor and told them that my kids had foot and mouth but that I was pretty sure I had something worse because I could barely swallow. Doc said you've got foot and mouth. it will go away soon.
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Post by milee on Aug 23, 2013 7:22:44 GMT -5
Pink Eye here, too. The worst part was that my son really didn't seem to show any (or few) symptoms, he'd just constantly bring it home to us.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:45:10 GMT -5
Ohhh...pink eye. I forgot about that one. I got that ALL the time as a kid. Don't remember if I ever had chicken pox, but XDH had it and I didn't catch it, so I'm probably good.
I wouldn't be so annoyed at this hand, foot and mouth thing if I didn't have the sores on my FACE and if I could sleep through the itching.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:48:42 GMT -5
I think they have a vaccine for chicken pox now and I'm pretty sure DS got it. He started daycare at 18 months and he has had 3 or 4 ear infections since. He is still somewhat sick (bad cough and occasionally runny nose) but nothing more serious than that. *knock on wood* None of us have had hand-foot-mouth and haven't gotten pink eye from DS yet (and he hasn't had it). *DOUBLE knock on wood*
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Post by giramomma on Aug 23, 2013 7:53:37 GMT -5
Once Pink eye went around DD1's preschool. She didn't get it, but I did.
That's the only time I ever got it. Then my Dr went on a 10 minute tirade because I asked if I needed antibiotics. A simple "No" would have sufficed. Instead, I got to become very familiar with how she thought that society was over-medicating pink-eye.
We've been relatively lucky. Generally the kids get one viral thing and a few colds a year. Even with 3 kids, we've only had to deal with 4 ear infections, total. We've escaped most of the typical sicknesses: pinkeye, strep, foot in mouth, lice, etc.
My 4 yo had appendicitis, so that makes up for us not catching everything
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 7:54:25 GMT -5
I have been SO lucky with this kid. He's been in daycare for 3 years now and has only had a handful of colds. Nothing else. Older son was never in daycare, but got pink eye a lot after he started school, then came down with whooping cough. That was horrible. He was coughing up a lung for nearly 6 months. I never caught anything from him though.
In retrospect, I'm doubting all of the times the school sent older son home with pink eye it was actually that. He seems to have some allergy issues that sometimes make one of his eyes red. Last time I just rinsed them with visine and he was better the next morning.
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Post by tcu2003 on Aug 23, 2013 8:06:45 GMT -5
We've been lucky so far. DS is 14 months and has been in daycare since late September 2012. So far we've only had a handful of colds and one ear infection, plus hand foot and mouth last month. Only HFM required him to stay home from daycare. He's getting ready to move up to the next classroom in the next couple of weeks, so we'll see what new germs he brings home.
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Post by 973beachbum on Aug 23, 2013 8:10:07 GMT -5
The thing my son picked up in daycare was that stomach bug that makes their stool filled with mucus and smell like fish. They both did stop after about a year of catching things. Other than the swine flu I can't remember anyone getting more than a mild cold in years.
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Post by gs11rmb on Aug 23, 2013 8:39:25 GMT -5
A co-worker caught impetigo from her daughter. She thought it was her eczema acting up but when she was having a massage, the masseur suggested she go to the doctor. He was right and she was mortified!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 8:46:26 GMT -5
Lice. They can't require kids stay home anymore. Parents don't even have ot say anything, they just send their kids with it and let the daycare discover it. We've been thru it twice now. Last time I got them too. I'll take stomach bugs with projective vomit and exploding diapers over lice. She's never picked up hand/foot/mouth disease thank god. She gets croup a lot though. It's DH and I that catch every single stomach bug that goes thru the place. Last one in January knocked me out for three weeks.
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Post by sheilaincali on Aug 23, 2013 8:49:23 GMT -5
My nephew passed strep throat around last week that he apparently picked up at daycare. One of the daycare staff admitted to coming into work with strep.
I've been lucky. My asshat brother always brings my nephew to work with him when he gets kicked out of daycare for various illnesses. I hate it hate it hate it. Why is it ok for him to infect me with his disgusting germs. It's always "go see what Aunt Sheila is doing? see if she'll let you play with her markers" Yeah- because I want some (literally) snot nosed little brat spreading his germs all over my office.
In the past year he has had (and come to work with) foot and mouth strep pink eye (3 times) pneumonia the flu skin rashes and a regular case of "loose stool and fever"
I am a bitch and I raise a fuss until they leave, then I disinfect everything in my office.
On the flip side- DS was super healthy. In his 15 years he has had the flu twice and 3 ear infections. Knock on wood- but not all kids in daycare are perpetually sick.
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Post by Pants on Aug 23, 2013 9:01:01 GMT -5
I totally win here: DD got enterovirus, then I got it, then DH got it and developed meningitis and was in the hospital for 4 days on a dilaudid drip. (For the record, I think I also had meningitis just didn't go to the hospital.)
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 9:02:55 GMT -5
bsb wins.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 9:12:30 GMT -5
There is another lice outbreak at daycare. Does anybody know where I can buy a biohazard suit in size 2T?
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Post by gs11rmb on Aug 23, 2013 9:28:34 GMT -5
Why won't they kick kids out with lice? At my daycare, the kid would need to stay home until treated. There's a good chance that it's the same kid who keeps bringing it with him or her.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 9:35:24 GMT -5
They have no grounds to do so. Health department has ruled it a health nuisance instead of a health risk (which requires you keep the kid home at least 24 hrs). You don't have to keep your kid home for a nuisance. You don't even have to tell the school/daycare your kid has lice. Technically they can tell them keep the kid home but a branch of my daycare is having its pants sued off by a parent for doing just that. ::waits for people to say this is why home daycare is better:: My pediatrican's office said the new rules are driving them bonkers, they haven't seen a lice explosion like this in decades because back when I was a kid the school/daycare sent you home and you stayed home till every last egg was gone. You couldn't go back to class till the school nurse rechecked you, she found something back home you went. This was ruled stigmatizing to kids with lice so they changed the rules. I kinda get it as a parent because it's rough to take all that time off, DH and I happen to have jobs where we cna do that. But still it's not fair to all the other kids/parents to have to put up with it.
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Post by Shooby on Aug 23, 2013 9:42:59 GMT -5
There was an outbreak of this and my kids didn't get it but i did!
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Post by gs11rmb on Aug 23, 2013 9:51:05 GMT -5
Perhaps when the health department receives enough complaints they'll change the rules. Then again, perhaps not ...
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 9:53:40 GMT -5
Probably not. This has been going on for quite awhile now. I'd have to ask my director when the rules changed. We had a long talk about it the last go around. The REALLY fun part is lice are becoming resistant to what's on the market, there hasn't been a new one in ages. Now there are "super lice". Guess what we ended up with?
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Post by bookkeeper on Aug 23, 2013 9:54:25 GMT -5
Head lice is extremely hard to remove from a daycare setting, either in home or in a commercial setting.
My next door neighbor ran a home daycare and an upper middle class family was having recurring head lice issues. My neighbor had to clean till 1 am each evening in order to be open for business the next day. About the fifth infestation, my neighbor met the mom and kid at the door and told them they could not come back until this problem was solved. Both the mom and daughter got rid of their long hair and paid to have their house cleaned and treated for pests.
The moral of the story is that people are lazy, and until they are inconvenienced, they don't spend the time or money to really address a head lice problem.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 9:58:46 GMT -5
My neighbor is a barber and had to tell a family to never come back. Kid's hair is so infested she couldn't even get a comb thru his hair. She's told them what to do to treat it but they don't listen. I feel bad for the kid. It was no picnic for DH to sit for 2 hours picking Gwen's head and then spend another 2 hours picking mine but he did it because that's the only way to know you got all the little bastards. I can't imagine letting your kid suffer constant head lice. I was so miserable I wanted to cry when I had them. My poor scalp was raw/bleeding for days between them, the chemicals and my constant scratching.
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Post by Abby Normal on Aug 23, 2013 10:07:40 GMT -5
Head lice is extremely hard to remove from a daycare setting, either in home or in a commercial setting. My next door neighbor ran a home daycare and an upper middle class family was having recurring head lice issues. My neighbor had to clean till 1 am each evening in order to be open for business the next day. About the fifth infestation, my neighbor met the mom and kid at the door and told them they could not come back until this problem was solved. Both the mom and daughter got rid of their long hair and paid to have their house cleaned and treated for pests. The moral of the story is that people are lazy, and until they are inconvenienced, they don't spend the time or money to really address a head lice problem. My son never got more than a cold from his daycare, but as he got older he went to an afterschool program through the YMCA. They had a recurring lice problem from a couple of kids. I thanked god every day I could cut his hair supper short because lice are NOT allowed in my house. They too, asked the kids to leave until the problem was resolved. They never returned.
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 23, 2013 11:06:54 GMT -5
DD came to us late on a Wednesday night. That Friday morning, she was sent home from school with lice. Now, every time her head itches, she is certain she has lice again. We used the chemicals the first time around, but since then have been using mayonnaise. (This was recommended by the social workers when we said we weren't fond of all the chemicals.) Basically, we coat her hair in mayo, put a shower cap on her, and then let it sit for 7-8 hours. (You're not supposed to do it overnight, and it will ruin pillow cases/sheets.) The "joy" of the mayo is that it's not the chemical that kills the lice. You're essentially drowning them with the oils. That's also why it takes so long.
Its a pain for her because she can't go play with her friends for an entire day and her tv/video game time is limited, and she doesn't like to read. (Though I will admit that this last time, we relaxed the TV time rules and let her watch much more than her usual 2 hours/day.) But while she's sitting and watching, I'm vacuuming her room, washing all the linens, including the mattress protector, putting pillows in plastic bags and pulling out other pillows (luckily we have enough that I can just rotate through). Then I get to vacuum the living room and the couch, and then go vacuum out the car.
Now, the last two times she's decided her head itched bad enough to do the mayo treatment, not a single lice has washed out of her hair and we haven't found any new eggs on her scalp. But she's a bit of a hypochondriac (probably because being sick/injured was about the only way she could get attention for years). I am hoping that the inconvenience and "unfun" of having to waste a whole day with mayo in her hair will lead to her being a bit more discriminating about figuring out if she has lice or an itchy scalp.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 23, 2013 11:10:00 GMT -5
Now, every time her head itches, she is certain she has lice again
We do that too. Every time Gwen scratchers her head or I scratch mine we get paranoid. We were just starting to relax and now there's another outbreak.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Aug 23, 2013 11:20:14 GMT -5
My kid's daycare passed every cold bug and stomach bug around between them. For a while, everytime he got a cold it turned into an ear infection. Then they passed chicken pox among themselves, but that actually wasn't too bad, because DS was only about 3 when he got it, and he got a mild case. Never ran much of a fever, didn't itch much, didn't seem fazed by it at all. Apparently, the older you are when you get it, the harder it hits you; our pediatrian said some parents would try to find kids with chicken pox to purposely expose their kids when they were small. So that wasn't bad.
Only problem is that if you are an adult and get chicken pox, it can kill you. Our lab's post doc caught chicken pox from her nephew. She was in ICU for weeks and out of the lab for 3 months. She looked like hell when she finally managed to stumble in. She thought she had had it as a child, so if she did it did not confer any immunity to her as an adult. This is right before the vaccine came out.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 23, 2013 11:45:23 GMT -5
My kid's daycare passed every cold bug and stomach bug around between them. For a while, everytime he got a cold it turned into an ear infection. Then they passed chicken pox among themselves, but that actually wasn't too bad, because DS was only about 3 when he got it, and he got a mild case. Never ran much of a fever, didn't itch much, didn't seem fazed by it at all. Apparently, the older you are when you get it, the harder it hits you; our pediatrian said some parents would try to find kids with chicken pox to purposely expose their kids when they were small. So that wasn't bad.
Only problem is that if you are an adult and get chicken pox, it can kill you. Our lab's post doc caught chicken pox from her nephew. She was in ICU for weeks and out of the lab for 3 months. She looked like hell when she finally managed to stumble in. She thought she had had it as a child, so if she did it did not confer any immunity to her as an adult. This is right before the vaccine came out. Yes - DS is 25 and when he was in daycare the dad of one of the little girls there got chickenpox and died. He had never had it as a kid. It was horrible. It was the second most tragic thing there - the worst thing was the couple that were in the final stages of adopting a little girl when the mom was killed in a car wreck on a business trip. I was afraid the dad would discontinue the adoption process because his wife died (or social services would end it) but he was able to adopt her, thank goodness. It was so sad. Since DS had chickenpox as a 3 year old I wonder if he has immunity now or if he needs the vaccine? I need to remember to ask our doctor.
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