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Jan. 16th, 2008 12:47 pmMy kid busted me out of employee training by developing conjunctivitis.
Here are the rules for conjunctivitis:
Once he has it, the daycare will not take him back until either A) A doctor declares that he does not, in fact, have conjuctivitis or B) he has been treated for conjunctivitis for at least 24 hours.
On examination, the doctor states that he has VIRAL conjunctivitis. For which there is no treatment. You just wait it out (much like it's best to do for bacterial conjunctivitis in most cases). But we cannot simply wait a week before sending him back to daycare, and so we have been prescribed antibiotics. These are "treatment" (inappropriate and useless as they may be), and after 24 hours of them (so not tomorrow, but Friday), he can go back to the viral experiment station where he caught conjunctivitis in the first place.
I comfort myself that we are unlikely to incubate superbugs as the result of unnecessary antibiotic eye goo because I can't get the stuff into his actual eyes. He has gobs of it on his eyelashes as I type this. Let me tell you though, if one day there's an outbreak of a drug-resistent strain of eyelash infection, I know why.
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schr0dinger seems unphased by the conjunctivitis. He hates the eye goo while I'm applying it, but can ignore it once it's on his eyelashes.
Here are the rules for conjunctivitis:
Once he has it, the daycare will not take him back until either A) A doctor declares that he does not, in fact, have conjuctivitis or B) he has been treated for conjunctivitis for at least 24 hours.
On examination, the doctor states that he has VIRAL conjunctivitis. For which there is no treatment. You just wait it out (much like it's best to do for bacterial conjunctivitis in most cases). But we cannot simply wait a week before sending him back to daycare, and so we have been prescribed antibiotics. These are "treatment" (inappropriate and useless as they may be), and after 24 hours of them (so not tomorrow, but Friday), he can go back to the viral experiment station where he caught conjunctivitis in the first place.
I comfort myself that we are unlikely to incubate superbugs as the result of unnecessary antibiotic eye goo because I can't get the stuff into his actual eyes. He has gobs of it on his eyelashes as I type this. Let me tell you though, if one day there's an outbreak of a drug-resistent strain of eyelash infection, I know why.
schr0dinger seems unphased by the conjunctivitis. He hates the eye goo while I'm applying it, but can ignore it once it's on his eyelashes.
