stupid hall shower question

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Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

That always failed for me and I had to have them cut out in the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

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Shower shoes are imperative. My oldest kid’s college had a big outbreak of hand foot and mouth last year and it was clearly spreading within the dorms (most likely via wet feet). The same could happen if someone contracted monkeypox.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

It's so funny when I hear Europeans say this. College in the US is different. It's an incredibly social and fun and crazy and interesting experience and pretty one of a kind. All of my children went to schools where they could have been put in a single room. NONE of them wanted this and would have been pretty crushed if they were put in one. Being social and living together is part of the fun.

I totally wanted a single room when I was in college and I was distressed that I didn't have one, not least because my freshman roommate was a total dud.

I just wanted one room mate and was stuck with 2. One who took half the room and would not share more fairly and the other who left blotter acid sitting on the desk where I was doing homework. I had no idea what it was and sat stuff on it while I was studying. Yeah, those experiences helped me grow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

Wrong opinion. Severe recalcitrant plantar warts need surgical extraction plus you
must get the entire colony (difficult to assess the bleeding) or tge colony just rebuilds itself. So you need a nurse practitioner there sucking if the blood). Most podiatrists I’ve been too don’t have a nurse practitioner to do tgat (and their offices aren’t sterile because of the nail cuttings).. Go read “treatment of Plantar Warts” in wiki. What you are describing is stage 2 treatment after stage 1 topicals didn’t work. DD was beyond stage 4 and needed a good surgeon. She was on crutches work weeks after. A podiatrist is not an MD. btw. My DW and I were there holding DD’s hand throughout the procedure. If I could do it over both we and the plastic surgeon agreed we would have done it under general anesthesia in a hospital. It was that painful to our DD. She screamed for -5 minutes throughout the procedure.

This sounds cuckoo. If you were so worried about shared bathrooms, why did you send your kid to this school?

As for the grotesque wart stuff, take it to the medical forum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

Wrong opinion. Severe recalcitrant plantar warts need surgical extraction plus you
must get the entire colony (difficult to assess the bleeding) or tge colony just rebuilds itself. So you need a nurse practitioner there sucking if the blood). Most podiatrists I’ve been too don’t have a nurse practitioner to do tgat (and their offices aren’t sterile because of the nail cuttings).. Go read “treatment of Plantar Warts” in wiki. What you are describing is stage 2 treatment after stage 1 topicals didn’t work. DD was beyond stage 4 and needed a good surgeon. She was on crutches work weeks after. A podiatrist is not an MD. btw. My DW and I were there holding DD’s hand throughout the procedure. If I could do it over both we and the plastic surgeon agreed we would have done it under general anesthesia in a hospital. It was that painful to our DD. She screamed for -5 minutes throughout the procedure.

This sounds cuckoo. If you were so worried about shared bathrooms, why did you send your kid to this school?

As for the grotesque wart stuff, take it to the medical forum.

a) not coo coo ( learn to spell)
B) directly on point because the discussion is about wearing foot protection in the showers and hallways if college to avoid this
C) there wasn’t an “issue with shared bathrooms” since this was middle school right here in DMZv -imagine that! Contracting plantar warts in public and private middle schools right here! Who would have thunk?
D) so I had no “choice” -especially with the public school
D) no need to send grotesque wart stuff elsewhere because PP had asked “why a plastic surgeon? Not a podiatrist “ roght up thread and I answered (podiatrists are not an MD - kid needed surgery for removal of the colony

Any further snarky questions ? AMA. Do you want the names of tge public and private schools involved?

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And posters on this thread being dismissive about shower shoes are simply dumb. Encourage your college kids to wear them and explain WHY. Yes, people really do pick up plantar warts and athlete's foot (which can actually be a stubborn, nasty infection, not a joke at all) in communal showers. Damn, some parents on DCUM think it's somehow "helicoptering" to talk about this stuff with their college-bound or college student kids. Nope, it's called sharing what you as an adult know, with your kid who has little life experience yet. But on DCUM, God forbid any parent should give one iota of advice about communal living to a kid who's never had to share a bedroom or bathroom with anyone but family.

Most of us have imparted that knowledge over the last 18 years and don't have to cram basic hygiene at the last minute. Yes, there are things to teach at the last minute but wearing flip flops to a communal shower is not one. Most of our kids have been at pools, gyms or sleepaway camps and have heard this before.

Love the 2nd PP's privileged arrogance. "Most of our kids" have attended expensive sleepaway camps or belong to pools, duh!

My kid finished swim lessons at at 6 (at the DPR pool). No pool showering since then. Forgive him if he forgot in the ensuing 12 years what I told him in 1st grade about fungal infections. It's not really dinner conversation so it hasn't come up since

Stop reading privilege and arrogance into every comment. No one said "most of our kids" have attended sleepaway camps or belonged to pools. The post said most of our kids have been at pools, gyms or sleepaway camps - and that's true. The public pool, school gyms, even visiting friends or relatives who may live in a building with a pool - most kids have had to use a communal shower before college, and most know they should wear flip flops or shower shoes. Whether or not they choose to do it is another matter (18yos don't always make the best choices) but communal showers are not that uncommon.

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So, I've sent my kids to numerous pools, camps and colleges and never knew that you were supposed to wear shower shoes IN the shower. I thought you just wore them TO and FROM the shower. I don't know that I've ever talked to them about the shoes, so I have know idea if someone set them straight at some point.
I did teach them to dry their feet after their shower. No warts or fungal infections so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, I've sent my kids to numerous pools, camps and colleges and never knew that you were supposed to wear shower shoes IN the shower. I thought you just wore them TO and FROM the shower. I don't know that I've ever talked to them about the shoes, so I have know idea if someone set them straight at some point.
I did teach them to dry their feet after their shower. No warts or fungal infections so far.

SMH...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

Wrong opinion. Severe recalcitrant plantar warts need surgical extraction plus you
must get the entire colony (difficult to assess the bleeding) or tge colony just rebuilds itself. So you need a nurse practitioner there sucking if the blood). Most podiatrists I’ve been too don’t have a nurse practitioner to do tgat (and their offices aren’t sterile because of the nail cuttings).. Go read “treatment of Plantar Warts” in wiki. What you are describing is stage 2 treatment after stage 1 topicals didn’t work. DD was beyond stage 4 and needed a good surgeon. She was on crutches work weeks after. A podiatrist is not an MD. btw. My DW and I were there holding DD’s hand throughout the procedure. If I could do it over both we and the plastic surgeon agreed we would have done it under general anesthesia in a hospital. It was that painful to our DD. She screamed for -5 minutes throughout the procedure.

That’s awful. I’m so sorry she had to go through that.

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We had rubber mats we stepped out on as we got out of the shower.

Frankly I loved hall bathrooms (I'm female). You met so many more people and had nice interactions. It's a great way to meet people and not feel so lonely at college. You usually move to an apartment by junior or senior year when coursework is really hard and you need to study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had rubber mats we stepped out on as we got out of the shower.

Frankly I loved hall bathrooms (I'm female). You met so many more people and had nice interactions. It's a great way to meet people and not feel so lonely at college. You usually move to an apartment by junior or senior year when coursework is really hard and you need to study.

OK, this is just odd...

[Anonymous]

My son always wore his shower shoes in college because he got warts on his feet back when he was 14/15 from the locker room and he said it was the most painful thing so far in his life (lol). But he did report that he was one of only 3 or 4 guys he saw wearing them after the first week.

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Send a shoe rack to school. Change bedding’s often too. Lysol.

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Yes, I think that’s how it will work, OP. Up to your kid on whether s/he wears them in the actual shower, though best hygiene would suggest Yes. There may be a rubber mat outside the shower for safety, though I definitely suggest not being barefoot on that.
Hall bathrooms topped the list of college cons for my son.