APS - when your kid has a cold

[Anonymous]

Test your kid. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old is your kid? If they are old enough for concurrent, I’d keep them home and just have them log in from home. I’m pretty sure if they were acting sick, they would get sent home and you’d need a negative COVID test to be allowed back in. You’re also lying on the questionnaire if you send them in.

Yep you can't pass the screener with these symptoms, so there's your answer. I don't understand why you don't just test your kid. You can buy tests that you can do at home now.

[Anonymous]

You need a negative PCR to be let back in. Those do not have as rapid a turnaround unless you pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst part is that even if it is a cold, every person who your kid infects will need to get a covid test and stay home until they get the results. Don't do it. Keep your kid home.

Yep but unfortunately OP doesn't seem to care.

[Anonymous]

You can send your kid to school. Or wait for the phone call from your school telling you to collect your kid.

Get the test. Make sure they know how to wear a mask properly if negative. You will just make other parents miserable with they have to do the same otherwise.

[Anonymous]

This is exactly why next fall will be full of starts and stops for our kids. CDC says a kid exposed to Covid, and who has a negative test, has to quarantine for 14 days.

[Anonymous]

The same ppl who say “this is clearly just a cold, it’s not COVID!” are the same ppl screeching all year about how COVID is no big deal bc it presents just like a cold in kids. Can’t have it both ways, folks.

Unfortunately, OP, the symptoms are similar and during a pandemic there are inconveniences like testing when your child present w such symptoms. Go to the ped and get a test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD had Covid recently. You know what her symptoms were? Runny nose and sneezing. It’s probably a cold, but it literally took us 10 minutes to get a test at CVS, so you may want one to be sure.

Did you do PCR or rapid?

[Anonymous]

I would absolutely 100% send a non-fever child to school and not even think twice about it. Yes, even now.

If the nurse has an issue with it, they can call me.

APS needs to crawl out of its shell.

[Anonymous]

Not exactly the same, but my DS had mild fever and bout of vomiting 1st week of being back in person. I immediately kept him from his pod and called pediatrician. Pediatrician said come in next day for pcr test, and results were back same day negative. So kept DS out from school next day as wouldn't want to spread anything even if 24 hour bug. He went back Friday after no pod Tuesday/Wednesday and no school Thursday. I felt better and me and DH work. I think during normal times,I would have said 24 hour bug no school 48 hours and been done with it,but we have to be overly cautious. I'm definitely not a keep your kid home with cold person during normal times.

[Anonymous]

Let’s say it’s just a cold and you send your kid to school. Every person your kid infects will have to go through the same process and get a covid test. Why do this to everyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not exactly the same, but my DS had mild fever and bout of vomiting 1st week of being back in person. I immediately kept him from his pod and called pediatrician. Pediatrician said come in next day for pcr test, and results were back same day negative. So kept DS out from school next day as wouldn't want to spread anything even if 24 hour bug. He went back Friday after no pod Tuesday/Wednesday and no school Thursday. I felt better and me and DH work. I think during normal times,I would have said 24 hour bug no school 48 hours and been done with it,but we have to be overly cautious. I'm definitely not a keep your kid home with cold person during normal times.

APS policies are not to send a kid into school who has vomited or had a fever within 24 hours anyway. But you did the right thing in having the COVID test in addition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same ppl who say “this is clearly just a cold, it’s not COVID!” are the same ppl screeching all year about how COVID is no big deal bc it presents just like a cold in kids. Can’t have it both ways, folks.

Unfortunately, OP, the symptoms are similar and during a pandemic there are inconveniences like testing when your child present w such symptoms. Go to the ped and get a test.

Ummm ... I can simultaneously think that covid isn’t generally serious in kids, and also be responsible about not spreading covid.

[Anonymous]

OP, do you honestly think your doctor is going to just write a note that your kid is fine going back to school without a Covid test? No way, your doctor is going to tell you to test.

[Anonymous]

Covid tests could not be any easier to get right now. Why wouldn’t you have already gotten the kid tested?