Does your daycare exclude for RSV? For colds?

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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.

+1 During COVID I really wanted to keep DD home from daycare if she had any symptoms at all. I remember there were times she went maybe one week out of the month. Obviously since this was daycare and we WOH it was impossible to sustain. But even if we didn't and this was more of a preschool situation, that is a lot of time to keep a child home and is disruptive to their routine. It was a new adjustment each time for DD to go back.