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100 degrees rectal temp with cough - When to keep a kid home from school? Says she wants to go
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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You are taking a rectal on a school ager?
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Anonymous
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"a rectal temperature higher than 100.4 F (38 C) is always considered a fever. A rectal temperature reading is generally 1 degree F (about 0.5 degree C) higher than an oral reading."
From the Mayo Clinic |
Anonymous
| 100 technically isn't a fever, has to be 100.5. But if it is already that high in the AM, it is almost certainly going to creep up there during the day. In my book, a fever = stay at home. |
Anonymous
Preschool for god's sake - she won't keep it under her tongue. ANYWAY - are you seriously that nitpicky that you respond to my post without any helpful advice? |
Anonymous
I apologize. It took me aback for a second. I also replied with the Mayo Clinic info. |
Anonymous
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This is a no brainer. Keep her home.
I send my kids to school with all kinds of mild ailments, but in the current environment of swine flu (which frequently manifests as a fever AND a cough or sore throat), I really think you should keep her home. If its something small, she'll be fine tomorrow. But if COULD be the beginnings of swine flu, and you just can't expose her entire class to that. |
Anonymous
| Please don't - for the sake of the other children. She is obviously fighting something. She may also not feel so great if the temp rises. |
Anonymous
| Keep her home. It is highly unlikely that the fever and cough are unrelated. So she either has something viral or bacterial. |
Anonymous
| If she's young enough to need a rectal temperature, she's too young to be reliable on whether she feels well enough to go. Keep her home! |
Anonymous
| Being the 9 months pregnant mom of a preschooler, please, please keep her home so my kid doesn't catch swine flu and bring it home to her pregnant mom and/or baby sibling. Someone in my shoes is at your school. |
Anonymous
| Keep her home. Hate to say it, but it could be swine flu or something else contagious. |
Anonymous
| Not sending a child to school in sick cases does not depend on whether or not she wants to go. It depends on what she might have and whether she's contagious or not. Fever is usually a good sign to indicate something is contagious, so, as long as she has a fever, she shouldn't go. Whenever she is fever-free (with no medication) for 24 hours, she can go back, unless she is not acting like herself, in which case she probably wouldn't want to go anyway. |
Anonymous
| (Get an under-the-arm thermometer.) |
Anonymous
| I agree with PP's...keep her home. In my kids' preschool, they have a new policy for swine-flu prevention--they take the every child's temperature first thing each morning. If a child has a fever, they are sent home immediately. |