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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

Many have older siblings in elementary school, who come home with the cough other PPs don't care that they pass along to them. Then they give it to their baby siblings, who end up in the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

Many have older siblings in elementary school, who come home with the cough other PPs don't care that they pass along to them. Then they give it to their baby siblings, who end up in the hospital.

Yeah, agree. I appreciate that kids can’t stay home for every sniffle but efforts to mitigate (including staying home for new symptoms) are important. I’m expecting my third in January and with two older kids, I’m pretty worried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

I have 3 children who each started daycare at 8 weeks, none of whom ever had RSV. If you want to pay for nannies/extended maternity leave for the vast majority of Americans that can’t afford it by all means do so, otherwise stop fear mongering.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Lol yeah you are just like her. I do pity you. Ps read the other thread on why taking a child to the doctor for every cough is actually not the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

I have 3 children who each started daycare at 8 weeks, none of whom ever had RSV. If you want to pay for nannies/extended maternity leave for the vast majority of Americans that can’t afford it by all means do so, otherwise stop fear mongering.

Well was that during an RSV epidemic? Because that's what we're dealing with now, in case you haven't heard the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

I have 3 children who each started daycare at 8 weeks, none of whom ever had RSV. If you want to pay for nannies/extended maternity leave for the vast majority of Americans that can’t afford it by all means do so, otherwise stop fear mongering.

Lol how did I fear monger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

I have 3 children who each started daycare at 8 weeks, none of whom ever had RSV. If you want to pay for nannies/extended maternity leave for the vast majority of Americans that can’t afford it by all means do so, otherwise stop fear mongering.

Lol how did I fear monger?

It was meant for the pp claiming babies need to be home with a parent/nanny or else they’re inevitably going to get RSV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I made a post like this last week in health forum and got berated. The hospitals are over flowing with RSV babies. Stay home when you have a new cough, at least tell your kids to wear a mask and cough into their elbow!

Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV.

I accept that kids aren’t staying home for the duration of a cough but why so callous? Some people need daycare. And even if they are home, some of them have older siblings.

I have 3 children who each started daycare at 8 weeks, none of whom ever had RSV. If you want to pay for nannies/extended maternity leave for the vast majority of Americans that can’t afford it by all means do so, otherwise stop fear mongering.

Well was that during an RSV epidemic? Because that's what we're dealing with now, in case you haven't heard the news.

Doesn’t change the fact that a nanny/SAHP is out of reach for the vast majority of parents and unlike COVID no one is going to close down work places or grant special leave status for a RSV epidemic so you’re just guilting parents with no other options whose babies statistically will almost certainly be okay.

[Anonymous]

Hi all, here are some basic facts for the posters here who appear to be divorced from reality:

1. Children often get sick and can get one virus after another, meaning they can be symptomatic for several weeks without requiring a trip to the doctor if their symptoms are mild.

2. Thankfully, for most children, symptoms of viruses like RSV are very mild.

3.Taking a child to the doctor for every new mild symptom is not appropriate, especially when health systems are overwhelmed and your goal is to NOT spread disease to vulnerable newborns and children with high risk conditions

4. Most parents do not know that what their child has is RSV and cannot be reasonably expected to know. In fact RSV spreads the most at the beginning of the illness before it is apparent that the child is even sick.

5. A new cough does not mean a child definitely has RSV. A new cough often presents later in a mild cold due to phlegm.

6. "Keep your child home if they have a new cough" is not based on medical advice, it is a made up rule. People should follow medical advice, not made up rules on DCUM.

7. Unfortunately, it is impossible to completely stop the spread of RSV. The best that can reasonably be done is for parents to keep kids home when they are not feeling well enough to participate in school/daycare. Forcing them to keep kids that are feeling well, home, works against that because there is a limit to how much school and work people can/are willing to miss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

Don't you care at all about the newborn siblings of your students you callous monster? s/

[Anonymous]

I still can't reconcile the difference between what the Maryland Covid Dashboard is reporting versus what news articles are reporting. If the Maryland Covid Dashboard was accurate, there should be ample pediatric ICU and hospital bed capacity? But that's not matching with reality.

"more than 500 RSV-related hospitalizations in Maryland since the start of October"

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/maryland-puts-25m-toward-pediatric-staffing-respiratory-virus-surges

“After meeting with our multi-agency public health task force yesterday and reviewing all of the data, I am announcing these steps to give our hospitals more tools to expand bed capacity for pediatric patients,” said Governor Hogan.
On October 14, the Maryland Department of Health announced $80 million in additional funding for healthcare providers across the state. Hospitals will receive $25 million and have been directed in award letters issued today to utilize these resources to increase the hiring and recruitment of staff.

https://whatsupmag.com/news/statewide-preparedness-efforts-announced-to-address-lncrease-in-flu-surges/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

That seems like a long time to be coughing. You still want to take it seriously and see a doctor and get an oxygen reading (or you can just buy one on Amazon for $20). If it's below 99-98, ask the doctor to check for pulmonary fibrosis (lung scarring - one of the possible "long covid" issues from a post-covid infection).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time my DD is sick my MIL will decide DH and I did something wrong to cause it and/or not respond correctly. Recently when DD tested positive for RSV (after three weeks of mild cold symptoms, most likely started with at lease one other different virus) she said, "Next time, take her to the doctor after she has been coughing for ::pause to make up fake medical advice:: two weeks". I just stared at her and she looked back at me like a little child caught in a lie.

I suspect there are a lot of people like my MIL on this thread, who for whatever reason get some satisfaction out of being the "parenting police" and making sh&t up to try to make other parents feel bad. I see you, and I pity you.

How about if we get satisfaction from NOT giving RSV to someone else's child? You let your kid be around other kids when they had RSV. And yet your only takeaway is to hate your MIL for daring to tell you to take your kid to the doctor. She was probably being sarcastic when she said take your kid to the doctor after two weeks of coughing. Most people wouldn't wait that long.

Thanks on behalf of all the other parents who now have to deal with RSV, and possibly have their kids in the packed emergency rooms dealing with it. You are a real sweetheart, PP.

Not PP but doctors offices are pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m not taking my kids in to be tested for RSV for every little cold symptom. Amazing how the expectation has changed since the pandemic started. RSV just used to be something everyone got unknowingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many kids in school when they're coughing??? Not even wearing a mask, not even covering their mouths -- just coughing with open mouths and tongues sticking out. I get that parents don't care about anything but getting their kids out of the house, but why are schools allowing kids in the building when they're coughing? When hospitals are filled to capacity with children who have respiratory illnesses?

I’m a teacher and I have been coughing since September 10 from COVID. Stayed home for 11 school days but I can’t stay home just for a cough.

Don't you care at all about the newborn siblings of your students you callous monster? s/

She has long Covid you idiot. She’s way past the contagious phase. God some of you people are so stupid. Show sone empathy would you? She probably got it from the unmasked kids in her class!