Elementary Kids Took ME Down!

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Dec 17, 2012

Oh no! Well at least you can laugh at it! Hope you are on the mend quickly!

mandyroseallen · Dec 17, 2012

Hope you are feeling better quickly!

It seems to be a terrible year for that kind of thing. My son's kindergarten class has been passing things back and forth since the start of Fall. Nasty, barking coughs that last for a few weeks, strep that won't go away with abx, colds that have turned into fever, vomitting, diarrhea, etc... ..and these colds/flus are hanging on for a long time this year.

PalmHarborMom · Dec 17, 2012

This isn't getting sick from other people's kids but... My son was lucky enough to get Hand, Foot & Mouth (coxsackie virus) in Kindergarten. Yes, he was miserable with blisters covering his entire mouth, lips and down his throat but luckily he didn't get them on his feet, just a few on the hands. My lovely husband had a tendency to share drinks with our kids (and yes, I warned him that our lovely children are carriers of diseases. lol) Well, 3 days after our son started showing symptoms, so did the husband. But he got it even worse! So I had 2 boys at home that couldn't eat anything with texture, heat, acidity or salty. They were starving but it hurt so bad to eat. Poor things ate pudding and overcooked mac-n-cheese for 2 weeks. It did become comical though.... My husband thought that he would "get rid of" the virus by gargling hydrogen peroxide.... His mouth foamed up like a rabid dog! The next day, he figured he would pull out the big guns and gargle Listerine. I warned him to no avail. That is the only time that I have ever heard him scream like a little girl. Then my husband was reprimanded for missing work because the bosses wife was a nurse and told him that adults don't get Hand, Foot & Mouth disease. Only kids do. So he opened his mouth and asked him "So what the h$ll is this then?" His boss sent him home and said not to come back without a doctor's note. I felt so bad for them but at least my husband learned to not drink after the kids.

Britrn04, BSN, MSN, RN · Dec 17, 2012

LOL at the vision of your husband using Listerine.....Coxsackie is awful though, my daughter had it! Thanks for sharing :-)

Flare, ASN, BSN · Dec 17, 2012

Worse thing I ever got from a student was a nice bite taken out of my arm. Hence the reason why I wear a lab coat 99% of the time. As far as getting sick, I did a bit in the beginning, but hardly do anymore.

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Dec 17, 2012

Some might say I am too mean to get sick! :mad:

SouthernSweetheart16 · Dec 17, 2012

My first year here, me and my (then 9 month old daughter) STAYED sick. She turned 1 that December (She'll be 4 in two days!) and we were constantly sick. She had several bouts of bronchitis and then ended up with RSV when she was 13 months. I don't know that it was actually from anything I took home to her, I was very careful about cleaning up before I held her a lot. I kept colds and sinus infections, etc. Luckily, my immune system seems to be getting better each year. I haven't been sick this year hardly at all.

Wave Watcher · Dec 18, 2012

Strep. Worse thing because I ended up in the ER with 103.5 fever, swollen lymph nodes under my arms and around my collar bone, I was in agony. I was vomiting for 3 days before I got the bright idea to go get checked out. Blek! I ended up with Strep 3 times that year.

brillohead, ADN, RN · Dec 18, 2012

I was in the Urgent Care with my son a few years ago (horrible looking strep throat -- we only ever get that in our family when the doc's office is closed for some reason) and I heard the doc telling the parents on the other side of the curtain that their kid had "a virus called Coxsackie".

I ever-so-discreetly moved my chair to the other side of the exam table away from that particular curtain. I do NOT need that kind of hell in my life, thankyouverymuch!