Take them or not? Spots started to appear on Thursday has more appearing today ? Due to me tomorrow

Take them or not? Spots started to appear on Thursday has more appearing today ? Due to me tomorrow

Public Health England have a document called 'Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings'. This is a handy document to download and keep for future reference.

In it under 'Rashes and skin infections' it says there is no exclusion period but to notify them if a large number of children become infected. However, it then contradicts itself saying 'exclusion may be considered in some circumstances'?.

Read it and see what you think.

Ok thank you for that 😘xx

I exclude for 7 days from date of first symptoms, NHS says:

'A person with hand, foot and mouth disease is highly contagious until about a week after the symptoms begin.'

Here:

Hand, foot and mouth disease - Introduction - NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx)

I'm rather wary of doctors diagnosing hand, foot & mouth in pre-talkers.

We've had 2 mindees with identical symptoms of mouth ulcers, cough and sore throat, but no other spots or pains elsewhere.

Child A's doctor diagnosed oral thrush and prescribed a cream. It cleared up within a couple of days.

Child B's doctor diagnosed hand, foot and mouth despite a singular lack of supporting symptoms. The ulcers took nearly 2 weeks to clear and the child then started to get discomfort when having nappies changed.

I strongly suspect they both had thrush. But B's doctor simply diagnosed HF&M because she knew she'd not have to risk prescribing anything, and crossed her fingers that it would go away in a week (as HF&M would).............. but it didn't and she ended up letting the thrush spread. :(

I had not seen it before until recently. LO had blisters on hands, one that filled the space between two of their joints.