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Day Care Chicken Pox Etiquette

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jfulle5:
So here is the story:
-Two weeks (two Saturdays) ago I took my daughter to a holiday in the park celebration and even though it was very cold there were mosquitoes out and about. The next morning she had about 5 bites on her face. She is highly allergic to the little bugs and typically I put bug repellent on her but it was so cold I didn't think they were out. She also had a few marks on her arms but again I didn't see any cause for alarm because she had been playing outdoors the previous day with just a long sleeve shirt on. Anyway no new marks really showed up the following week and she went to daycare as normal. Her teacher knows of her allergy and she checked them and she agreed they looked like bug bites. Well this past Monday I brought her to the doctor because they weren't getting any better, no new ones had shown up though, but I just wanted to get them checked.
-The doctor had never seen anything like it. She was 80% sure it was chicken pox though. My daughter had gotten the immunity shot at age one, she is now 2.5, and so the doctor though she had the mildest case she's ever seen. About 8 dots total. It didn't start on her torso which is what i here is common and she never had a fever. She's been quite pleasant and has not been fussy at all.
-Anyway I pulled her out of the daycare immediately and told her teach it "might" be chicken pox. The director of the daycare found out and sent an email to every parent in the entire center saying there was a "contagious disease" going around and that there child was exposed. Now I am getting blamed for infecting the entire daycare and they are threatening "action."
1)How is this my fault when the daycare even examined her spots and determined they were bits
2)What should I do with the parents that are confronting me about infecting their child.

no cases so far have been reported at the daycare.

Maggie:
Honestly I would say I'm sorry but I thought they were bites.  Until I took her to the dr. and the dr said otherwise. 

Any child that is in daycare is susceptible to diseases.  I don't really think it is your fault.  You did what you and the daycare thought was right. 

kareng57:
It really wouldn't have made much difference anyway.  Chicken-pox is most contagious before any spots appear - I think the peak-time is the day beforehand, when the child feels perfectly fine but is still exposing anyone else who comes near her.  I truly don't see what sort of action the daycare could take, in any event.

If the other kids have been vaccinated, they too would likely get very mild cases, if any.  Chicken pox can indeed be very serious in some kids, and that's the whole point of vaccination, after all.  I'd wager that this is all going to end up being much ado about nothing.

Reika:
Sounds to me like the director overreacted a bit. Chicken pox isn't as serious as it used to be unless there's some sort of "superflu" strain going around that no one has reported in the news.

Shoo:
They're threatening "action" are they?  Huh.

The director of your daycare, I hope you don't mind me saying, sounds like a dufus.  I'd be concerned about leaving my child at a daycare where the director doesn't realize that chicken pox are most contagious before the spots even show up.  And with such a mild case such as your dd's, even THEY didn't realize what they were.

Actionable, my caboose.

So, how about the next time your dd is exposed to the flu, one of the teachers comes down with a cold, pink eye is diagnosed in some baby, that you threaten THEM with some sort of "action?"

Better yet, find a better daycare.  How insulting of them to threaten you.  My feelings for them would never be the same, and I'd never feel comfortable with them again. 

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