Personal sick guidelines for daycare/school?

[Anonymous]

I have never been in our daycare room where at least one kid didn’t have a snotty nose. Send for colds if the kid feels good and no fever.

[Anonymous]

Colds don’t phase me. But if your kid has had the stomach bug, do not send him to school or daycare for at least 24 to 48 hours after last puke. The kid is still contagious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I kept my daughter home for a runny nose, she would go to daycare about 19 days a year.

As long as she is feeling well, no fever, no diarrhea/vomiting, she is going. HFM is actually allowed at our daycare since it's already spread by the time symptoms appear.

your poor child has some serious underlying issue that you need to address if she spends her life with a runny nose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never been in our daycare room where at least one kid didn’t have a snotty nose. Send for colds if the kid feels good and no fever.

+1

Little kids have runny noses all the time. If it's running clear, no fever, and in good spirits, I send my kid in. If she's got a hacking cough, fever, or seems run down or tired, I keep her home. Vomiting, she stays home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I think I would be annoyed at a parent for sending their kid to school with the same symptoms my kid has, I keep them home. If I think I would be miserable at work if I had the same symptoms that my kid has, I keep them home.

That's generally my rule, until I hear that someone in the class went in with croup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I think I would be annoyed at a parent for sending their kid to school with the same symptoms my kid has, I keep them home. If I think I would be miserable at work if I had the same symptoms that my kid has, I keep them home.

This is my guideline, too.

[Anonymous]

If no fever, eating okay, no recent vomit, and they're acting like themselves, then yes, they're almost always going to daycare.

Having said that, DD has a raging case of pink eye. It looks horrifying. She's acting fine, outside of how she looks. She started treatment more than 24 hours ago, but I just can't send my kid to preschool with her eye glued shut, so we're watching cartoons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely keep home if: fever, cough + runny nose, tired/fatigue, vomiting/diarrhea, communicable disease (hmf, pink eye)

Send to school: cough only, slight runny nose only, 24 hours after fever or vomiting

This. Energy level tells you a lot. If you went to the mall with your child, then your child is well enough to go to school. When they are home sick, we don't leave the house because they are home sick! I have made the wrong call once or twice (sent them when it was clear later I should not have). I've also thought I needed to stay home when after an hour of hanging out I realize that the child is totally fine and I take them in late. Both rare, but it's happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I kept my daughter home for a runny nose, she would go to daycare about 19 days a year.

As long as she is feeling well, no fever, no diarrhea/vomiting, she is going. HFM is actually allowed at our daycare since it's already spread by the time symptoms appear.

your poor child has some serious underlying issue that you need to address if she spends her life with a runny nose

Um, I think this mom/dad was exaggerating for humor, but most kids have a runny nose most of the winter.

[Anonymous]

One of my daughter’s classmates had a pea green booger hanging out of her nose yesterday. I have no idea if she had been in school the entire duration of her cold or not. And I didn’t think twice about it, minus not accepting the toy she was offering. Both of her parents work, she was in good spirits, and the teacher was not opposed to her being in clsss. That’s good enough for me. I did get her a tissue though and we washed our hands as soon as we got home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my daughter’s classmates had a pea green booger hanging out of her nose yesterday. I have no idea if she had been in school the entire duration of her cold or not. And I didn’t think twice about it, minus not accepting the toy she was offering. Both of her parents work, she was in good spirits, and the teacher was not opposed to her being in clsss. That’s good enough for me. I did get her a tissue though and we washed our hands as soon as we got home.

Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my daughter’s classmates had a pea green booger hanging out of her nose yesterday. I have no idea if she had been in school the entire duration of her cold or not. And I didn’t think twice about it, minus not accepting the toy she was offering. Both of her parents work, she was in good spirits, and the teacher was not opposed to her being in clsss. That’s good enough for me. I did get her a tissue though and we washed our hands as soon as we got home.

Gross

No joke. But the kid wasn’t made to feel that way. So semi decent management instead of overreacting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my daughter’s classmates had a pea green booger hanging out of her nose yesterday. I have no idea if she had been in school the entire duration of her cold or not. And I didn’t think twice about it, minus not accepting the toy she was offering. Both of her parents work, she was in good spirits, and the teacher was not opposed to her being in clsss. That’s good enough for me. I did get her a tissue though and we washed our hands as soon as we got home.

Gross

No joke. But the kid wasn’t made to feel that way. So semi decent management instead of overreacting.

You're a better person than me

[Anonymous]

He basically goes unless he has the plague.

He had diarrhea the other night after dinner but was his usual self the entire time. I felt it was because he ate half a pineapple at dinner the night before and not due to a virus, so I still sent him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fever or vomiting, definitely home. Home for multiple day diarrhea. Miserable or run down the same. Sniffles or cough but behaving normally she goes in. It all comes from school to begin with I also weigh out if it’s easier send her in knowing we’ll get a call to pick her up, or just keeping her home. Obviously this is only on mostly ok but not feeling 100% days.

That is the shittiest thing to do. Expose everyone because you can't POSSIBLY find backup care or stay home and take care of your obviously ill child. Who cares if they infect everyone else? Mommy and Daddy are OH SO IMPORTANT.