Not to make you worried...

A few years ago I got a terrible stomach virus. It's a bug that spreads like wildfire and before you have a chance to clean the bug off your clothes, you have it!

It's going around the schools at my daycare. Yesterday alone, Vestavia East had 150 students and 4 teachers out with what I can only find on the CDC as a norovirus or more specifically for children, a rotavirus. It affects thousands of children every year. So that mysterious ailment attacking students at your children's schools really is more common than you think.

It's a virus, so you can't take anything to get rid of it. However, you can protect yourself by washing your hands, staying away from the sick ones, changing clothes if someone gets sick on you (and yes this is going around with adults, too!), don't eat after people and stay away from any other close contact.

Why am I telling you about this right now? Because I was exposed to it yesterday by a child who threw up in his parent's car and the parent still took him to school where he threw up in the bathroom and he didn't tell anyone.

Thanks parent.