Pink I rule in daycare?

[Anonymous]

At our daycare, the rule is that you have to be on antibiotics for 24 hours before you can return. This is kind of ridiculous, since most cases of pink eye are viral.

In general, you can't keep your kid home from daycare every time they are mildly ill; you would never be at work. Most daycares understand that you are not going to pay them 1500 per month to infect your kid with things that then get them excluded from the daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our daycare, the rule is that you have to be on antibiotics for 24 hours before you can return. This is kind of ridiculous, since most cases of pink eye are viral.

In general, you can't keep your kid home from daycare every time they are mildly ill; you would never be at work. Most daycares understand that you are not going to pay them 1500 per month to infect your kid with things that then get them excluded from the daycare.

I think most school or daycare policies are along the lines of "home for 24hrs after the fever breaks/antibiotics are started/contagion period ends/doctor's note". Point being, don't knowingly send your child to school with an infectious condition whether it's chicken pox, strep throat, lice or pink eye.

Runny noses and mild colds can't be helped, but more significant issues like the above should be at home and not in the classroom circulating to other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What goes around comes around! Keep your kid home. You share, it will just come right back to you. It is extremely inconsiderate to spread.

Alright non helpful dummies. I just need to know what the rule is. Nobody said I was trying to risk another kid or my kids health. Sheesh

Can't you ASK the daycare?

[Anonymous]

Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

Yes a person was being a dick. See the gross comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

Yes a person was being a dick. See the gross comment.

What's gross about this comment?:

Anonymous wrote:[ Yes, you are risking your and other kids health. This is common sense to keep your child home and not expose anyone to this. You are the dummy for even asking this. Just like with any illness, keep your kid home till it clears up.

PP referred to you as a dummy lacking common sense. Maybe not a kind choice of words, but not gross and not the work of a troll.

[Anonymous]

Our Daycare is the same as most have said. 24 hours after antibiotics they can return. HOWEVER it is expected that if the eye is still red and goo like that the child stays home. The daycare will not allow kid back when it looks as if it has not improved or been treated.

When the nurse at the peds office checks and gets the prescription from the doc the drugs she makes sure to differentiate if it is viral verses bacterial. Bacterial the inside(white part) if the eye turns red. EYe is watery and goo like. Viral is a but different. If it is bacteria she always says your child will not be contagious after 24 hours on the drops. If it is viral it needs to run its course and there is a chance of spreading for a few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

Yes a person was being a dick. See the gross comment.

Fact: pink eye is gross

Would you argue otherwise?

[Anonymous]

Why don't you ask your daycare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

Yes a person was being a dick. See the gross comment.

What's gross about this comment?:

Anonymous wrote:[ Yes, you are risking your and other kids health. This is common sense to keep your child home and not expose anyone to this. You are the dummy for even asking this. Just like with any illness, keep your kid home till it clears up.

PP referred to you as a dummy lacking common sense. Maybe not a kind choice of words, but not gross and not the work of a troll.

See Comment number 2 on the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling people dummies yet asking us for help?

Yes a person was being a dick. See the gross comment.

Fact: pink eye is gross

Would you argue otherwise?

Inflammation is gross? No. Not washing YOUR nasty Hilda hands and allowing my snowflake to get sick is gross.
As I mentioned early. Go away troll.

[Anonymous]

Actually, the American Academy of Pediatrics no longer recommends that children be excluded from child care for pink eye. This comes from a book called Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care and School. Many doctors don't even treat it anymore, as it will clear up on its own in the same amount of time as using an antibiotic. Most child care centers and state regs haven't changed their policies yet, but at some point they will.