unknown fever outbreak at least once in a month in classroom

[Anonymous]

For the last few months, there is at least 1 unknown fever outbreak happening in daycare's classroom. Every time, a few to 15 kids are all sick at home with at least 1-3 days of fever and unknown illness per doctor's notes. It's contagious and spread in the classroom, not covid, cold or flu or rsv or other things after doctor's visits. What is going on? And, many kids are not new to current daycare, and we have been in the current daycare for 2 years. The classroom has 2 teachers with 24 kids. Some kids never get sick, but my kid gets the fever and stay home for 2-4 days at least every month with fever not going away and with no/mild coughing. Is it common at your daycare?

[Anonymous]

That’s strange. There are viruses always floating around that aren’t anything major. Do you think these viruses are just catching up to the past couple of years?

If there is an illness outbreak at your daycare, has the health department been notified just in case? How many kids in total attend the daycare?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the normal fall/winter viruses that little kids get. Sometimes you know what it is, sometimes you don't. "A few to 15 kids" is a pretty big spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the normal fall/winter viruses that little kids get. Sometimes you know what it is, sometimes you don't. "A few to 15 kids" is a pretty big spread.

Yeah, sounds normal. Also, if it's sometimes just a few kids, is it possible people aren't getting tested to know what it is? We've been sick every month this fall as well, and my kid always has a fever with it (generally DH and I don't get fevers even when we catch what she has). We only know that one of them was Covid because of course we take at home Covid tests when we get sick. The others we don't know what they were because we were sick enough to stay home from school/work but not sick enough to drag ourselves or our kid to the doctor or urgent care where they might test. We knew it wasn't Covid, could have been flu, RSV, or just bad colds.

Little kids get fevers a lot. Mine just had a virus that resulted in 3 days of low grade fever. Not fun, but also not the end of the world.

[Anonymous]

This doesn’t sound particularly unusual. Maybe slightly more than usual, but that could easily just be catching up on infections from the past couple of years.