Does your daycare exclude for RSV? For colds?

[Anonymous]

Provided that your child doesn’t have a fever and is only exhibiting cold like symptoms, how long, if at all does your daycare exclude for RSV?

If your child hasn’t been tested for RSV but other kids at daycare have tested positive, does your daycare exclude for suspected RSV or colds?

[Anonymous]

We're new to daycare and I was trying to figure this out too. My son was sick two weeks ago with rsv and now just has a cough, but it doesn't seem to be going away. I don't believe he's contagious anymore, just his lungs are still recovering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're new to daycare and I was trying to figure this out too. My son was sick two weeks ago with rsv and now just has a cough, but it doesn't seem to be going away. I don't believe he's contagious anymore, just his lungs are still recovering.

Is he currently attending daycare or did they tell him he can’t come back until it’s completely resolved?

[Anonymous]

It's not specific to RSV. The exclusion is for fever and other symptoms. There was no "test to return" requirement even with other cases in the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not specific to RSV. The exclusion is for fever and other symptoms. There was no "test to return" requirement even with other cases in the class.

They exclude for fever, green snot, excessive cough.

[Anonymous]

My daycare does not exclude for RSV beyond the standard exclusion criteria: fever, diarrhea, vomiting, unable to participate fully in the activities/clearly sick (which includes things like excessive snot or an incapacitating cough).

Last time we had RSV, my preschooler was home for a few days where I thought she seemed low energy/clearly miserable (and coughing), then went back after she'd had a full day at home where she wasn't constantly sniffling and was largely back to her normal self (although still coughing, especially when lying down). She was then home again for a day a few days later when she woke up in the middle of the night with an ear infection. I'm pretty sure it actually resolved/she would have been healthy enough to go that day because she never complained of ear pain again after that one dose of Tylenol in the middle of the night but I wasn't going to send her to daycare when I wasn't sure and she'd only had like 7 hours of sleep.

For the same RSV round, my baby was home for six days straight (a whole week and then the next Monday) because he ran a low-grade fever for like four days and also can't blow his own nose yet so I have a lower bar for what I consider to be "unable to participate" levels of snot.

[Anonymous]

You need to be symptom free with no fever reducer for at least 24hrs. I believe public school policy fcps is 72 hours

[Anonymous]

RSV is very serious in this age group. Your child should stay home under the “cold like symptoms” have resolved

[Anonymous]

We got an email saying RSV was going around my child's class. My son--who more than 50% of the time has a runny nose- had a runnier nose than usual. They did not send him home. I suspect he had RSV. (We also think he had it at daycare last year but with more symptoms.) Kids just have to get this virus and I'm fine with sending him to school as long as he has no fever and feels well enough to participate. This was how it was with my older child and I see no reason to change things now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RSV is very serious in this age group. Your child should stay home under the “cold like symptoms” have resolved

You are living in a fantasy world of you think parents are able to keep kids home for weeks on end (that is how long coughs can last).

[Anonymous]

Our daycare does not have any rules specific to RSV. Seeing as there are no at home RSV tests and no way to tell when a child stops being contagious, there is not much else a daycare can do besides ask parents.to keep kids home if they are not feeling well + the required rules about fever/diarrhea/vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RSV is very serious in this age group. Your child should stay home under the “cold like symptoms” have resolved

You are living in a fantasy world of you think parents are able to keep kids home for weeks on end (that is how long coughs can last).

I think too that all kids are different. My daughter (4) tends to have fairly mild symptoms most of the time and if I kept her home until every symptom had resolved, it would be kind of excessive but doable. My son (2) is symptom-free approximately 1 or 2 days a month.

Our preschool is asking us to keep kids home for all symptoms of any kind which I find a bit frustrating because it's not realistic and it's absolutely not going to happen, and it makes it really hard to know where to draw the line. We have the flexibility to keep the kids home when we need to but I want my son to actually be able to attend the school, so I sent him back in today (Tuesday) after he was home Thursday-Monday with a head cold. His symptoms are much better but if past experience is any guide he will be onto the next one before this one totally resolves. (And it's not like keeping him home prevents the next illness, since his sister brings home germs that barely affect her but do affect him.)

[Anonymous]

Of course not. They'd never have any kids there if that were the case.

Fevers over 100.3F, vomiting, if a kid really acts sick, yes. Runny noses? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to be symptom free with no fever reducer for at least 24hrs. I believe public school policy fcps is 72 hours

Are you saying FCPS kids stay home for 3 days after every symptom resolves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RSV is very serious in this age group. Your child should stay home under the “cold like symptoms” have resolved

You are living in a fantasy world of you think parents are able to keep kids home for weeks on end (that is how long coughs can last).

I think too that all kids are different. My daughter (4) tends to have fairly mild symptoms most of the time and if I kept her home until every symptom had resolved, it would be kind of excessive but doable. My son (2) is symptom-free approximately 1 or 2 days a month.

Our preschool is asking us to keep kids home for all symptoms of any kind which I find a bit frustrating because it's not realistic and it's absolutely not going to happen, and it makes it really hard to know where to draw the line. We have the flexibility to keep the kids home when we need to but I want my son to actually be able to attend the school, so I sent him back in today (Tuesday) after he was home Thursday-Monday with a head cold. His symptoms are much better but if past experience is any guide he will be onto the next one before this one totally resolves. (And it's not like keeping him home prevents the next illness, since his sister brings home germs that barely affect her but do affect him.)

I think you really need to push back on the preschool's policy or else find another school. If my son didn't go to school because of cold symptoms, he would be in school less than 50% of the time, even less in the winter months. What would be the point of even enrolling him in the school? Kids that age get a string of respiratory viruses. The preschool should know that.