Is Chuck E. Cheese's Really Chuck E. Diseases?

 

Every surface in the world is covered in piles of nasty bacteria. That these bacteria were present isn’t surprising or a big deal - it would only matter if the bacteria were present in high enough concentrations to allow them to exhibit pathogenicity in a person. Plating a bunch of swabs tells you nothing but whether bacteria are present, which by itself is useless.

- GEli

Posted 12/04/08 06:20 PM

 

 

thanks tips, what place isn’t sanitary you might as well be writing about how dirty door knobs are. its a place where kids go to have fun, does anything else matter? so what if a kid gets sick, ITS GOOD FOR THEM. boosts their immune system so they will not get sick later on, if they aren’t exposed to these things it will only come back and get them down the road. i find this to be a joke p.s there are far worse things out there to worry about then chuck e cheeze

- Anonymous

Posted 12/04/08 06:43 PM

 

 

i grew up going to chuck e cheese and have never been sick because of it. my 2 kids love it as well. some of you people are so stupid! when you get home, throw your kids in the tub. if your kids are getting sick because of chuck e cheese, then you are a pig that does not know how to keep your kid clean. so maybe you are the ditry ones! OH MY GOD! i hope your kid never uses a public bathroom or goes to school! THEY MIGHT DIE! LOL….some people are so stupid. you probably had no fun as a child. i feel sorry for you!

- mike

Posted 12/04/08 09:26 PM

 

 

You know I CAN understand the Germophobes as I am one especially since I have had my kids….but lets see what we as parents can do about this… 1. Make your kids wash there hands before AND after they eat so when they play on these toys at least THEY are not contributing… 2. HAND SANITIZER…really cheap and fits in your purse. They even have purse size bottles of Lysol that ALSO fit in your purse and they are also inexpensive. 3. DO NOT let your child eat off the tables, seats, toys, games, trays or any other ” infected” surface. 4. Get over YOUR fears and let your kids have fun…if they get sick let it build their immume system and move on…

- GERMAPHOBE!!!!!

Posted 12/04/08 09:34 PM

 

 

so after reading this and some of the comments i have to say yes chuck e cheeses is pretty gross. i take my daughter there about twice a year and she is only allowed to play the games she is not allowed to play in the ball pit or the tubes. also i would like to say to the person who said “Alot of low class people go there” that was very rude.

- um really

Posted 12/04/08 09:46 PM

 

 

““Alot of low class people go to CC.” And most low class people spell it “alot” instead of “a lot”. Get over yourselves people. Its a fun place for kids. If you are so afraid of your spoiled little angels getting sick…don’t let them leave the house. Its parents like you who are damning the future leaders of this country. - Kaiser” YORE

- Hugh G Rexion

Posted 12/04/08 10:16 PM

 

 

OMG, It seems like we cant depend on anything anymore. The one place where our children should be safe to play may just cost them their lives. I am so disgusted, my skin is crawling just knowing that I gave my 1 year old’s birthday party there just earlier this year, thank God for the news!

- Lonny

Posted 12/04/08 10:20 PM

 

 

OMG, It seems like we cant depend on anything anymore. The one place where our children should be safe to play may just cost them their lives. I am so disgusted, my skin is crawling just knowing that I gave my 1 year old’s birthday party there just earlier this year, thank God for the news!

- Lonny

Posted 12/04/08 10:21 PM

 

 

I am so sick and tired of you snotty, spoiled, holier than thou, suburban feminazis. You listen to others phobias and jump on the band wagon and start raising cain about nothing. Germs are even in the air we breathe. How many of you don’t peform oral sex? How many of you had to urinate out in the woods with no toilet paper? Let kids be kids. They are going to get sick one way or the other. If you are so worried about them getting sick, stick them in a sterile bubble and keep them at home.

- doc savage

Posted 12/04/08 10:50 PM

 

 

Did you do a control? Did you test several other restaurants and other types of establishments, an Applebees, a bar (where single adults go to drink, no kids there) — and the automobile you rode to Chuck E Cheese in — and your home? Otherwise you are unfairly picking on Chuck E Cheese and mongering fear - everywhere might be that dirty and that might just be normal. Or you might have contaminated the swabs. Humans have an immune system for a reason. It isn’t cause for alarm that bacteria are everywhere. Kids need to build up their immune system anyway. It’s no fun being an immune-deficient adult, you suffer with all sorts of obscure chronic conditions that modern medicine doesn’t know how to treat, and you end up spending years first being told by doctors “it’s all in your head” then 10 years later “Yeah, that actually is real, we still don’t know how to treat it.” IBS, fibromyalgia, leaky gut, Morgellyns, on and on it goes. Gah, don’t start me…

- Robert

Posted 12/04/08 11:22 PM

 

 

Monunlogic needs to get a life!

- Common Sense

Posted 12/05/08 12:06 AM

 

 

Parents are beyond ridiculous with sheltering their children from EVERYTHING today. When I was ten years old back in the early nineties, I went to a small local equivalent of Chuck E Cheese called “Arthur’s Castle.” Guess what? I got the chicken pox! OH NO! Time to shelter me, the little disease carrying pariah from your poor, special little snowflakes, right? No, like any responsible parent would, they got me together with my friends and spread the chicken pox to them to help build their immune system and prevent the others from receiving the sickness in their adult years (which has been proven deadly if they do not contract the said disease in their childhood.) You know what? Because of my exposure in the childhood years, I now don’t have to worry of what could happen to me now that I am an adult and obtain the same sickness; same goes for the others who caught my illness. Cleanliness is O.K. but too much obsession over it can deplete a child’s immune system, creating resistance and newer superbugs, all because you want to shelter your youth from common germs. And then who do you blame when a new resistant virus rears it’s head? Why you fuss and they retaliate by making even stronger chemicals which continues the cycle for weaker immune systems and stronger germs. This is not natural. Let your kids be kids for gods sakes. That’s REAL Momlogic.

- Anonymous

Posted 12/05/08 01:01 AM

 

 

I live in NJ and none of the Chuck E. Cheese’s have ball pits that is due to the fact the McDonalds had hypodermic needles and dirty diapers in theirs. Therefore EVERYONE that had a ball pit was forced to remove them. If CEC is sooo filthy why are they still open. Jeepers in Elizabeth, NJ was closed for weeks becuase they were filthy, the health dept forced them to close. Stop making a big deal out of nothing, like someone else said i continue to go to CEC and so do the children in my family and none of us has EVER gotten sick.

- joesmom

Posted 12/05/08 10:36 AM

 

 

Um, Joesmom .. that’s not true. I live in central NJ and can think of at least 4 places off the top of my head, within 20 minutes of where I live, that have ball pits.

- Kirstie

Posted 12/05/08 02:59 PM

 

 

I really hope you people are aware that 99% of bacteria are either A. harmless or B. necessary. For god’s sake, there are more bacterial cells in the human body than there are human cells. The more you shelter your kids, the more harm you do. Do you ever wonder why your children are allergic to everything under the sun or why they get sick more often than rural children?

- Anonymous

Posted 12/05/08 03:42 PM

 

 

I typically urinate in the ball pits. And I’m about 29 years old. Just FYI.

- Sir Cool

Posted 12/05/08 04:07 PM

 

 

They should have a 15 minute time out every two hours. Have an alarm go off and then have every worker wipe down the equipment. During that time every parent and child should wash their hands with soap and water or hand sanitizer. They should also have a rule that any noticeable sick child may not gain entrance that day. Anna Manous

- Anonymous

Posted 12/05/08 04:31 PM

 

 

CeC is cleaner than your average hospital.

- Phil McCrackin

Posted 12/05/08 05:11 PM

 

 

why would momlogic care to defame the name of chuck e cheese? he’s provided fun and a safe enviornment for children and kept them off the streets and in my lap! i mean, if the parents stop bringing their kids to my work, who will i grope in the ball pit? *sigh*

- chester

Posted 12/06/08 02:35 AM

 

 

“They should have a 15 minute time out every two hours. Have an alarm go off and then have every worker wipe down the equipment. During that time every parent and child should wash their hands with soap and water or hand sanitizer. They should also have a rule that any noticeable sick child may not gain entrance that day. Anna Manous” should we also have those children wear little ‘red crosses’ to denote who is sick and who isn’t? maybe at certain times we’ll contain all the little ‘red crosses’ to specific areas of the restaurant. i say, a great idea! we should make them prepare the pizza and sell tokens too while we sit back and enjoy our cola. *your next*

- anne frank

Posted 12/06/08 02:40 AM

 

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