Are school sores contagious or harmful to a pregnant woman?

[Anila]

Thankyou so much Inanna!
Definalty puts my mind at ease more!
They were on antibiotics and i dont know how long the contagious part is, but im assuming they had been past that stage, i hope!

Thanks for the tips, hopefully i wont need them lol

[Inanna]

No doubt at some stage your children will get them - it is caused by staph or Strep - but usually staph. They spread like wildfire & are something that require removal of the child from school until they've been on a/b's for 24 hours or they are scabbed over & not weeping. They are required to be covered at school as well.

[Anila]

They looked like they were definatly scabbing over, and they got them during the school holidays.
I just needed to be sure, like i said i wasnt worried, but i was iykwim lol

[Inanna]

Of course you were! I worried about that sort of thing too when I was pregnant. Those babies are very precious cargo... I understand

[~clover~]

Yeah, my girls got them when DS & I were still in hossy, then DS got them just after DD3 came home.
I was told to keep them away for the baby for the first 24 hours of abs, after that they were fine.
You should be fine