take a sick child to disney??? flame suit on!!!!

[noodleknitter]

A virus wouldn't necessarily not affect his pancreas because he was lying down and resting. Viruses are not that predictable. Sounds like a mighty big guilt trip, to me. I am sorry, however for your husband's illness.

 

[zookeeper]

I am a teacher. I have worked for 13 years in a jurisidiction that mandates the vaccine. I also have a 7 year old who has been in school/daycare since he was tiny -- always in different schools from where I worked. During that time I have encountered chicken pox once -- in a classmate's of my son's when he was in an infant's program -- the child was too young to be vaccinated. In contrast, as a child chicken pox went through our school every few years.

I have to agree. I'm also a teacher and I remember when I started teaching there were times when 2/3 of a class would be absent because of chicken pox, often around gr. 2. Now, you hardly ever hear of anyone with chicken pox as most children have had the vaccine. When I taught kindergarten there was a boy in the next class that was going through cancer treatments and was very vulnerable to infections and he missed most of that school year because his mom didn't want to risk him being exposed to viruses. I think I would be leary of relying on other parents to report illness, not because they would refuse to do it but more because it's hard enough for most parents to remember to call in their child's absence to the school let alone report that their child has the sniffles. The same goes for peanut allergies. Unless your children attend a peanut-free school I wouldn't rely on parents always remembering not to send a PB & J sandwich to school. Again, not because they're being malicious, but because they forget or someone who isn't aware has made their lunch.

 

[scraptoons]

A virus wouldn't necessarily not affect his pancreas because he was lying down and resting. Viruses are not that predictable. Sounds like a mighty big guilt trip, to me. I am sorry, however for your husband's illness.

Doctors had confirmed this. Not my guilt trip, but his. I didn't know him then. Bottom line is to take it easy and not push yourself.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

All of my kids have been vacinated. So I don't know why that has come up. And I know they can have a few pox after having the shot because their pediatrician already told me so I understand where you are coming from. You can still get the chicken pox even with the shot. But someone who knows their child is really sick and goes to school or on vacation is just rude beyond words. It's also wrong to drag a sick child through a theme park. How are they supposed to get better. Seems very selfish to me. I love Disney but if one of my children gets ill we will stay home or at the hotel and get better.

I too would stay home if one of my little ones was sick and if they got sick while there it would be resort room for us.

 

[noodleknitter]

Doctors had confirmed this. Not my guilt trip, but his. I didn't know him then. Bottom line is to take it easy and not push yourself.

I didn't mean it to sound like your were giving the guilt trip. There is no way a doctor can predict such a thing, however. It would be nice if they could, but they don't have that kind of power...contrary to the belief of some!

 

[100 acre wood]

My DS has reflux and so all the way down (18 hr car drive) it was acting up on him....I guess that was mild, cause by the time we were driving home, Dh had caught a stomach virus in the World, which showed itself at Vero, passed it along to my eldest (on the drive home, I believe in VA) and then two days into back to school, the middle one had it. Oh, yeah, that stomach virus REALLY did a number on my refluxer. Miraculously, I was the only one to remain healthy thru it all?

Have travelled at vairous times with colds, but nothing more....last year and the Disney bug was the worst

 

[Tiger926]

I have a compromised immune system, as does my daughter (lots of colds, allergies, asthma, flus & viruses for us) and guess what? We stay home all of the time. Why? For our sake and the sake of all of you. It makes me nuts that these threads keep popping up. To be honest, I don't visit the DIS all that often anymore because there is just so much selfishness present and this definitely falls into that category.

It's amazing to me how many people are able to look into their kid's bodies and know exactly what is wrong with them! Tons of doctors make mistakes - heck, the doctor who took care of my baby at Centra Care clinic outside of WDW missed a severe virus that she had and she had to be hospitalized for days. Needless to say, the pediatric specialists who took care of her were not impressed. My point is, doctors make mistakes all of the time, yet parents claim to know what is wrong with their kids. No one really knows what is going on in our bodies most of the timen and good docs will admit that.

You think it's an ear infection, so you take your kid into a park filled with thousands of people, many of them Make a Wish terminally ill children, and what if it turns out to be something else? Or, I constantly read about people on here who make their kids tough it out at the parks because they just know it's because the child ate too much candy - how do you know that? Most of the time, it's probably a virus and not a sore food tummy. Better to be safe than sorry, but apparently not to many of you who travel to WDW.

Sorry, I'm sure this is going to tick some people off, but we've been made sick several times by people while on vacation at Disney World (know it was at WDW because we all had complete, and I mean complete physicals before we left, and in one case, our doc and his family was travelling with us and took care of us and his daughter became ill from the same virus as well! We stayed in our resort for days). I have missed out on so many things in my life due to illness, and many times it's not contagious, but I do what I have to do for other people.

The world would be so much better off with a little bit of altruism, especially in these types of situations!

Tiger

 

[kritter]

I have a compromised immune system, as does my daughter (lots of colds, allergies, asthma, flus & viruses for us) and guess what? We stay home all of the time. Why? For our sake and the sake of all of you. It makes me nuts that these threads keep popping up. To be honest, I don't visit the DIS all that often anymore because there is just so much selfishness present and this definitely falls into that category.

It's amazing to me how many people are able to look into their kid's bodies and know exactly what is wrong with them! Tons of doctors make mistakes - heck, the doctor who took care of my baby at Centra Care clinic outside of WDW missed a severe virus that she had and she had to be hospitalized for days. Needless to say, the pediatric specialists who took care of her were not impressed. My point is, doctors make mistakes all of the time, yet parents claim to know what is wrong with their kids. No one really knows what is going on in our bodies most of the timen and good docs will admit that.

You think it's an ear infection, so you take your kid into a park filled with thousands of people, many of them Make a Wish terminally ill children, and what if it turns out to be something else? Or, I constantly read about people on here who make their kids tough it out at the parks because they just know it's because the child ate too much candy - how do you know that? Most of the time, it's probably a virus and not a sore food tummy. Better to be safe than sorry, but apparently not to many of you who travel to WDW.

Sorry, I'm sure this is going to tick some people off, but we've been made sick several times by people while on vacation at Disney World (know it was at WDW because we all had complete, and I mean complete physicals before we left, and in one case, our doc and his family was travelling with us and took care of us and his daughter became ill from the same virus as well! We stayed in our resort for days). I have missed out on so many things in my life due to illness, and many times it's not contagious, but I do what I have to do for other people.

The world would be so much better off with a little bit of altruism, especially in these types of situations!

Tiger

WEll said...some people are soo selfish to take sick kids out in public.!!!!!.

 

[kaysmommie]

I have a compromised immune system, as does my daughter (lots of colds, allergies, asthma, flus & viruses for us) and guess what? We stay home all of the time. Why? For our sake and the sake of all of you. It makes me nuts that these threads keep popping up. To be honest, I don't visit the DIS all that often anymore because there is just so much selfishness present and this definitely falls into that category.

It's amazing to me how many people are able to look into their kid's bodies and know exactly what is wrong with them! Tons of doctors make mistakes - heck, the doctor who took care of my baby at Centra Care clinic outside of WDW missed a severe virus that she had and she had to be hospitalized for days. Needless to say, the pediatric specialists who took care of her were not impressed. My point is, doctors make mistakes all of the time, yet parents claim to know what is wrong with their kids. No one really knows what is going on in our bodies most of the timen and good docs will admit that.

You think it's an ear infection, so you take your kid into a park filled with thousands of people, many of them Make a Wish terminally ill children, and what if it turns out to be something else? Or, I constantly read about people on here who make their kids tough it out at the parks because they just know it's because the child ate too much candy - how do you know that? Most of the time, it's probably a virus and not a sore food tummy. Better to be safe than sorry, but apparently not to many of you who travel to WDW.

Sorry, I'm sure this is going to tick some people off, but we've been made sick several times by people while on vacation at Disney World (know it was at WDW because we all had complete, and I mean complete physicals before we left, and in one case, our doc and his family was travelling with us and took care of us and his daughter became ill from the same virus as well! We stayed in our resort for days). I have missed out on so many things in my life due to illness, and many times it's not contagious, but I do what I have to do for other people.

The world would be so much better off with a little bit of altruism, especially in these types of situations!

Tiger

I agree 100% . I said in a previous post that I also thought this was very selfish of parents for many reasons. I'm almost afraid of my vacation beccause of all the people who are in denial about their sick kids. I don't want to end up with the whole family having a virus and being stuck in the room for days. Or worse yet sick on the 10 hour ride home. My DS 2 has a little summer cold he is just getting over but we leave in 10 days. I will be taking him to get his ears checked even if he seems fine because I don't want him to be miserable either. I bought trip insurance in case anyone gets sick or injured before the trip too.

 

[lauritagoddess]

It's amazing to me how many people are able to look into their kid's bodies and know exactly what is wrong with them! Tons of doctors make mistakes - heck, the doctor who took care of my baby at Centra Care clinic outside of WDW missed a severe virus that she had and she had to be hospitalized for days. Needless to say, the pediatric specialists who took care of her were not impressed. My point is, doctors make mistakes all of the time, yet parents claim to know what is wrong with their kids. No one really knows what is going on in our bodies most of the timen and good docs will admit that.

Actually, I usually know far better than the pediatrician what's going on with my DS. I see him day in and day out and know his health better than the pediatrician who sees him for a few minutes at a visit. I know his various coughs, the sounds of his breathing, his behavior, etc. My DS is just getting over a cold with croup. He literally has had croup at least 20+ times since he was 10 months old, and usually with an accompanying asthma flare-up. I know the drill. He knows the drill. If I was at all concerned that his illness was something other than a minor upper respiratory issue, I'd have him to the pediatrician in a flash. But you know your child. He's still wheezing a little from the asthma flare-up and I hope that's gone by Sunday when we leave, but if I never took him anywhere when he had an upper respiratory issue, he'd never leave the house.

I also did the ear infection merry-go-round with him before he had his adenoids out and tubes put in last year. I sure as heck had him at the doctor as soon as I suspected another infection, you don't play around with certain things. But once they're on antibiotics and feel okay, should you keep them home? Should they stay in every time they have a cold? I did keep my son home from daycare for an entire month when he was in the midst of the worst of his ear infections before his surgery to give him to recover a little and not be exposed to all the kids, but unless in exceptional circumstances, you can't hide away from the world and if people stayed home with their kids every time the kids had a sniffle, you'd be homebound all the time.

Should you take out kids when you know they're contagious say with chicken pox like was mentioned earlier? Obviously no. Should you take them out to the parks when they're visibly ill and feeling bad, again no. Should you drag them around a park when they're feel ill to their stomach, again obviously no. But not every circumstance warrants staying home and you do what you feel is right for your child, for your family.

 

[eeyoregon]

we've been made sick several times by people while on vacation at Disney World (know it was at WDW because we all had complete, and I mean complete physicals before we left, and in one case, our doc and his family was travelling with us and took care of us and his daughter became ill from the same virus as well! We stayed in our resort for days).

Did you drive to Walt Disney World by car or did you fly? If you flew how do you know 100% that you didn't get infected on the plane ride? Much more likely to contract an illness thru air travel than while at WDW as WDW doesn't use recirculated air.

 

[amyup]

Both times we have went to Disneyworld my kids have had ear infections. The first time both boys had them and they were on antibiotics for about 36 hours before our flight (the doctor said it would be fine). The next time my youngest got an ear infection 3 days before we left. Then when we got off the plane and into the car my oldest started complaining about not feeling well. He ended up having a fever and we just went to the resort and he slept it off. I was planning on staying in the resort with him the next day but he woke up feeling better and was completely fine for the rest of our trip.

Amy

 

[momof3littlelilos]

..You think it's an ear infection, so you take your kid into a park filled with thousands of people, many of them Make a Wish terminally ill children, and what if it turns out to be something else? Or, I constantly read about people on here who make their kids tough it out at the parks because they just know it's because the child ate too much candy - how do you know that? Most of the time, it's probably a virus and not a sore food tummy. Better to be safe than sorry, but apparently not to many of you who travel to WDW.

Tiger

I just wanted to second your point about the Make a Wish and Starlight kids at WDW. WDW is a Mecca for immuno-compromised kids with serious illnesses, who could be killed by some other kids sniffles. Maybe parents of "healthy" kids don't realize how serious it is when you take your kid with a cold or a "stomach virus" (or fill in the blank) into the world.
The attitude that you somehow know what your kid can handle when they're sick ignores the fact that you might be seriously endangering someone else.

But I'm in the minority. I also feel that adults are rude and inconsiderate when they refuse to take sick days, show up at work hacking and sniffling, and then infect the rest of the office. Sick days are there for a reason.

 

[slo]

No flaming from me

2 years ago my 13 month old (at the time) woke up with 103 fever the morning we were leaving. I took her to the doctor immediately, I was given some antibiotics, and off we went. We took our vacation really slow, and she was perfectly fine. I have no regrets, and no guilt

 

[stemikger]

I didn't read the post, but it seems like you know your child and you made it work out. In my experience as a parent, my daughter got my ear infections then I could count and when she was that age she was on antibiotics quite frequently because of it. As long as he was taking his medicine and wasn't going to be infecting others I don't think you did the wrong thing at all.

How many times do parents take well children on vacation only to have the child get sick while on vacation, so I say just go and make it work.

 

[TENIA66]

I don't know if I had made it clear earlier but I did take ds to the doc prior to leaving so i had the correct diagnosis, medical advice and medications

 

[TSM1993]

OT and ok w/ being flamed - but these are the people who should be getting chicken pox vaccines. My DH hasn't had chicken pox, but we've agreed that he'll get the vaccine and not the kids. Just seems like common sense to take responsibility for your own health if you know you're at risk.
(BTW - my son was immuno compromised as a young'un and exposed various times - then hospitalized - because irresponsible parents sent their kids to school w/the pox for financial reasons. I'm totally not saying it's okay to irresponsibly infect people. Just if you know you're at risk take responsiblity for vaccinating yourself.)

My Dr told me that the vaccine doesnt prevent you from getting them it only tones chicken pox down (ie instead of getting 1000 chicken pox marks you may only get 200 pox marks) Now this was back in 1997 when my son got the vaccine. He got the chicken pox about 6 months to a year after the vaccine. Took him to his Dr to make sure this was what it was and he said it was and I said well he had the vaccine why did he get them and thats when he told me that.

 

[TSM1993]

A little OT but when my son was in daycare we had a mom bring her child to daycare that had chickenpox and didnt tell the daycare staff until the next day. The bad part about it was she was a nurse(you would of thought she knew better). I was also told by the staff that she said oh well its better to have them exposed at this age. Talk about the nerve. My child already had lots of medical problems when he was born. Like being born dead and was and Intensive care baby (sepsis and septic shock just to name 2 out of the 8 things wrong)for the 1st 10 days of his life. I didnt put him in daycare until he was almost 3 years of age. But still had to keep an eye on him and everytime he got ill had to take him to the DR to see what was wrong with him because they never fiqured out why he had gotten those two things I mentioned. I have since been told that he no longer has to be seen everytime he is sick they think he has outgrown it.But also was told that because he was on antibiotics for the 1st 10 days of his life he will be more susceptible(sp) to catching an illness then other people luckly it think he outgrew this too. But I have to agree with the contagious type of illness please keep them home or away from other people you never know what the illness could do to other people. But an ear infection I see no problem with that.

 

[welovedis]

I have a compromised immune system, as does my daughter (lots of colds, allergies, asthma, flus & viruses for us) and guess what? We stay home all of the time. Why? For our sake and the sake of all of you. It makes me nuts that these threads keep popping up. To be honest, I don't visit the DIS all that often anymore because there is just so much selfishness present and this definitely falls into that category.

It's amazing to me how many people are able to look into their kid's bodies and know exactly what is wrong with them! Tons of doctors make mistakes - heck, the doctor who took care of my baby at Centra Care clinic outside of WDW missed a severe virus that she had and she had to be hospitalized for days. Needless to say, the pediatric specialists who took care of her were not impressed. My point is, doctors make mistakes all of the time, yet parents claim to know what is wrong with their kids. No one really knows what is going on in our bodies most of the timen and good docs will admit that.

You think it's an ear infection, so you take your kid into a park filled with thousands of people, many of them Make a Wish terminally ill children, and what if it turns out to be something else? Or, I constantly read about people on here who make their kids tough it out at the parks because they just know it's because the child ate too much candy - how do you know that? Most of the time, it's probably a virus and not a sore food tummy. Better to be safe than sorry, but apparently not to many of you who travel to WDW.

Sorry, I'm sure this is going to tick some people off, but we've been made sick several times by people while on vacation at Disney World (know it was at WDW because we all had complete, and I mean complete physicals before we left, and in one case, our doc and his family was travelling with us and took care of us and his daughter became ill from the same virus as well! We stayed in our resort for days). I have missed out on so many things in my life due to illness, and many times it's not contagious, but I do what I have to do for other people.

The world would be so much better off with a little bit of altruism, especially in these types of situations!

Tiger

I completely agree!

 

[welovedis]

I'm a daycare provider who has never had chicken pox and cannot get the vaccine because I'm allergic to neomycin which a vaccine component. Also can't get a flu shot because of my other allergies, so I don't appreciate the it when parents make a choice to exposure their sick children to myself & others.

And a big HI to the mom of the child with EOS issues, I'm an EE, EG, EC'er over here!