Dirty Households...Anyone With Experience?
I'm wondering...my SD, 9 came home from BM's yesterday with 6-8 boil like sores on her backside. She tells me that he little brother (3) and SS (also 9) have the same sores. Does any one know if it is typical for these sores to spread or what to do about them??? Does this warrant a trip to the doctor? The kids are always coming home from BM's with something (impentigo, sores on their lips, etc.)
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sounds like
sleeping in dirty sheets to me...or lack of regular bathing. Or combination of the two. The impetigo is a bacterial thing resulting in improper cleaning of a wound or break in the skin. My son got this one time due to his severe eczema problem and his dad wouldn't clean his skin properly then bacteria from outside would cause sores in addition to eczema.
The boil like sores are from irregular bathing. They should be bathed at LEAST every other day in the winter and every evening in the summer. I don't think it's worth a trip to the doctor, I'd just try making them take a shower instead of a bath and put some eucerine cream on her daily.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
Poor kids.
I have no idea what it is. It could be from anything....even a bug bite of some sort. Whatever it is, they need to get checked ASAP. It could be something serious.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost
It might be worth a trip to
It might be worth a trip to the doctor to get a wound culture.
My two SDs and their SB had
My two SDs and their SB had boils from BM making them share towels. They needed to see a doc to get them cut out and be on antibiotics because they just kept coming back, again, and again. BM is not dirty, but her SS had them, and her making them share towels (GROSS!) passed them.
I would
take the to a doctor to get it checked out. You never know. Has any other adult been in BMs house recently? Might be time for someone to check out their living conditions. It's not at all healthy for any child to be living in squalor conditions. I feel bad for them.
Thanks!
Thanks for the advice....DH and I have never been in her home since her move a little over a year ago so we arent sure what the house is like. Im just imagining that something is seriously lacking for the kids to keep coming home with all these bacterial infections. And when I hear that two other kids in the house have them....EEEK! The girls also tell DH and I that BM makes them bathe together.
no offense to anyone but
rushing to the doctor about a rash before trying to change the possible situational causes of the rash is the reason it takes 4 weeks to get your child into the pediatrician for a simple physical or check up(patient overload)...I agree the rash is serious and not be taken lightly but I also think getting them on a regular bathing,clean laundry,better hygiene schedule would help greatly and not cause undo friction amongst the adults (SM,DH,BM). If it doesn't go away or gets worse...THEN the doctor appointment is necessary. I could be wrong though...I'm just speaking from a healthcare worker perspective.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha
With saying the kids have
With saying the kids have boils my concern is MRSA. I've seen several patients come through the Emergency Department with what appear to be bug/spider bites or boils be admitted to the hospital and diagnosed later with MRSA (my father in law being one of them). I definitely wouldn't rush them to the ED but a pediatrician/PCP can perform a wound culture and you would have the results in a few days or so.
Boils can be staph
Don't know if this has occurred in y'alls region but that communal staph infection can manifest as boils.
FH's stepmom is nasty and she worked in a nursing home. One of FH's little stepsisters got staph twice and it's a very serious thing and very hard to get rid of. Everything in the house has to be disinfected and the whole kid has to be cleaned with Hibcleanse (sp?) so many times a day.
Make sure the kids don't have a fever and if the boils don't clear up ASAP they should probably see a doctor.
That is what was causing my
That is what was causing my girls' boils and there step brothers. We started sending them with their own towels, but they did need to see the doctor.
That's what I was thinking....
as a couple years ago DH and I both contracted MRSA. We are CLEAN people I promise! LOL... but bacterial infections can be bad bad bad. Most people carry staph on their bodies all the time but somehow both of us had huge boils come up and I actually wound up on IV antibiotics for a few days because I got so sick. We had to take antibiotics for a month straight and disinfect everything everyday. It was horrid! If the boils look the least bit angry (bright red, oozy) please have them see a dr. MRSA can kill and it's nothing to mess around with, hence the name superbug.
Superbug definitely
FH's poor little stepsister was hospitalized for three days with it. It's terrible!
EEWWWWW....
reminds me of that nasty ringworm my SD had for 8 months!!! Yes EIGHT months!! It started as a dime sized ring on her back. I always set up her bath because DH didn't feel as a man he should do it. When I saw it I showed it to him and said tell ReeRee that SD needs Lotrison cream so this can go away.
2 weeks pass...the dime sized ringworm is now the size of a quarter. Another 2 weeks pass, the ringworm is now the size of a dollar bill. She leaves to Florida for the ENTIRE summer. SD comes back now the thing is all over her back, crossing over to her stomach.
ReeRee calls in hysterics stating that SD has skin cancer. This was because DH's niece had just passed from a strange bone cancer so ReeRee assumed that bone cancer and skin cancer were somehow hereditary. Freaking moron. If she stopped taking SD to the free clinics and actually took her to a real doctor she would KNOW that it was just ringworm!!! I ended up getting a Lotrison cream prescription and whenever she was here I'd put it on her, but when she'd go home that was it, no treatment. It was only when I told DH that I couldn't have SD here anymore until she was cured because I was afraid my kids would catch it that ReeRee actually treated the damn thing.
She also freaked because SD told her that I had taken photos of her body. ReeRee called DH screaming that why was I taking pictures of SD? DH told her it was just record keeping for future court problems. That went over well....
My Problem...
is that she wont do what needs to be done to prevent these things (BM). She sends the kids to our house, we make them better then they go back to her and are sick before they return to us! I agree with Barbie about running to the doctor so I will try at home remedies first. Thanks guys!
Crystal, I hope you're documenting this
If BM can't get it together, step up with hygiene and keep her kids healthy, you might need this info in court.
Pictures are good too like the above poster mentioned.
We have had to battle lice because of BM sooooooooooooooo many times I should buy stock in RID. It's ridiculous. Finally, I told the girls there's no excuse. Wash all of your own sheets and do everything I do here, over there, because we'd get rid of them here, they'd go to BM's and they'd come back with lice. Finally, SDs had to take matters into their own hands to get rid of them because BM was just too lazy to do it right. grrrr.
Last time they had them, BM shaved the underneath part of SD10's hair because they were so bad according to SD10. I could see a zillion red bite marks on her scalp in the shaved part and you betcha, snapped a pic of it. You never know when that might come in handy. I've also documented everytime they've come over with lice and ALL of the rigamarole we go through to get them out of the house. The girls now have a headcheck everytime they come back from their mom's before they walk in the door.
Boils are a symptom of MRSA. I would take her immediately
to a Doc. and get her tested. MRSA went through part of my work force and is not something you want to mess with in your family. One of my guys had to have minor surgery to address the infection that started as a boil and ended up as an abscess.
Here is a link that discusses MRSA and related symptoms.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/understanding-mrsa-met...
Good luck and best regards,
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
Thanks To Everyone!
This is all so frustating to me. I have a bio child as well as my two step children and I have NEVER in her 14 years had to deal with all of the crap that I have to deal with for the SK's. I hate to see the kids suffer and I hate to have to be the one that always nurses them back to health only to have the come back to us three days later sick again! We have told BM not to let the kids shower together, share clothes, etc. but she doesnt listen. The poor girl is 10 yrs old! She should be able to shower privately! We have gotten to the point where we talk to the kids and tell them to refuse to shower with anyone else and if BM gets mad she can call us! I appreciate all of the great input!