Bite Followup

[lesliepear]

Did follow up with daycare. They did give him the pizza which apparently he ate a little of (they figured I'd ordered lunch).

I did speak to the director about the bite and not being told (as well as the teacher). Appears to be a shift change issue.

My MIL is wondering about AIDS (not likely in my opinion), and what they did about the biter and Alan in terms of discipline and did the biter have a history.

Will find out a little more tommorrow.

Comments

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

did the kid actually break the skin and cause bleeding???
Anyway, you dont transfer AIDS through saliva.
Kids bite. It happens a lot - they get really excited and sometimes do so to express themselves. You have to expect it to occur once in a while at this age.

Yes, the school totally should have told you, but to freak out on the kid that did the biting is unfair.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

My MIL was more freaked about that. I reassured her tonight that if a child had AIDS, they'd know. She/he would probably be on medicine and the school needs a signed note for that.

I'm sure it just was toddler thing.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

Well, your mother is overreacting and sadly sadly ignorant about AIDS and how it spreads.
In order for AIDS to get transmitted, a simple bite wouldnt do it, unless like the kid had a bloody sore in his mouth and the other broke skin and somehow blood mixed.
She needs to stop being so paranoid. Even my friend who while pregnant was working with AIDs and HepC patients have had serum of infected patients spilled on their arms and it was wiped off with rubbing alcohol and they immediately were sent down for lab testing as well as follow up testing 6 months later (purely as a precaution) *even though they KNEW this was extremely unlikely* did not get infected. And thats a hellof a lot different than mild bites.