SWINE FLU IN SCHOOLS
“Parents at dead girl’s school plead for advice on viru”. Are we surprised parents are terrified when swine flu was discovered in Mexico we were told it was lethal and the chances of surviving it were not good , it was attacking children and babies. Now it is here we are told it is nothing and we will recover in a few days and already children are ill and one has died. In my area it has been diagnosed in three school when this happened we had 5 days of school left why were the schools not closed. Where are the drugs we were told would be there to protect us. Is this another case of government promises and no action to follow one child has died how many more before we start to take this seriously. Having a vaccine by the end of the year is not good enough parents were told all the help we needed would be available. Now we are told we cannot even see a doctor just stay at home and treat yourself if my child is ill I need help as will every other parent across the country. School and public places should have been closed and those who need to stay home to care for children been given the help to do so, come on government
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Absolutely, I have had a phone call from my son’s infant school today asking if I have had my doctors advice to keep him off school. No, I haven’t and so it will go down as unauthorised absence, but that’s fine. I will not send my asthmatic child to school and risk his health. They don’t even do much in the last week of school, so why not close the schools early to help reduce the spread of swine flu. I know it can be caught elsewhere, but schools are places where it spreads exceptionally quickly, so why not try and stem the spread.
I have just read an article in the daily mirror about the swine flu cases and i was pleased to find someone the same opinion as myself about the way the government has acted. Margaret Morrissey said that schools should have broken up early. i could not agree more, only yesterday i found out that a young child in my sons class had swine flu and also there had been a few cases in school. how dare the school not inform parents, what right do they have to put our children at risk for the sake of a couple of wks in school. i have 2 children one 5 and the other just 22 months, also me and husband both have asthma therefore my whole family is in a high risk group, i cannot begin to explain how angry i am. the school is quick enough to inform us if a child has head lice…..has anyone died as a result of head lice???! i think the government should have restricted air travel, closed schools and shut places to prevent spreading. it is also very worrying that they predict swine flu to peak early sept….just as the schools return!! sorry to go on but i really feel very strongly about this issue, well done margaret morrissey!!
Just to update, the 6 year old girl to whom I presume the original poster is referring died of septic shock associated with tonsilitis. Not swine flu.
To date, only one of the 30 people who have died of swine flu has not had other serious underlying health problems which would have made them severly vulnerable to any flu virus.
Every year, 12,000 people die of seasonal flu. This represents about 0.1 – 0.35 % of those infected. For swine flu, the only reason the projected figures are higher is because more people are likely to catch it so although, according to figures, 30,000 people or so may tragically lose their lives, the other 18, 297 000 people that MIGHT catch swine flu will not.
There is plenty of good advice on the NHS Direct website including what symptoms to look for in children, what treatments they can take and treatment/ avoidance advice for mums-to-be. Make contingency plans in case your childminder comes into contact with flu and cannot look afte your kids for a few days.
This isn’t the plague. The regions of the globe where it has proved deadly are those where the general health of the population can be poor, and access to healthcare is limited. People in the UK should be grateful that they have easy access to treatment and that by Autumn, a vaccine will be available to cover far more people than it is predicted will be infected. Panicking is counter-productive.
I fully support any parents who want to keep their children out of school when they are in high risk categories. Both my boys are asthmatic,one 8,one just turned 4 in August and only just started school. They attend linked infant and junior schools with separate heads. We received a letter on 14th Sept from both confirming swine flu (which I thought was the right thing for them to do) and we spoke to GP and got letters supporting us taking them out of school. For the infant school this is still not enough and my 4 year old pre-compulsory school aged son is now on an un-authorised absence which we are struggling hard to contest.My junior school has been brilliant and supported us fully.Does anyone know who we can contact? We are law abiding parents who are desperately trying to protect our precious children. How does the head of a school or even the local education authority have the power to overturn a doctor’s letter? Parents need to stick together and lobby the Government for our rights, afterall we live in a democracy and not a dictatorship.
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