Is it okay to bring a kid with a horrible cough to an optional extra curricular?

[Anonymous]

So glad the answers are mostly telling OP that it was ok for this kid to be there. I myself almost always get a dry hacking irritation cough on the tail end of a respiratory virus. All other symptoms are gone and I'm not contagious at that point. It can last like a month! I can't put my life on hold. It is embarrassing, though, in some situations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I myself had a cough for about 6 weeks after an illness. I did not wear a mask for 6 weeks. Sorry not sorry. Your anxiety is not my problem.

Your thoughtlessness and incivility is a problem for all those unfortunate enough to be around you.

Sounds like you think it's unfortunate to be around people with non contagious chronic illnesses. That's a you problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So glad the answers are mostly telling OP that it was ok for this kid to be there. I myself almost always get a dry hacking irritation cough on the tail end of a respiratory virus. All other symptoms are gone and I'm not contagious at that point. It can last like a month! I can't put my life on hold. It is embarrassing, though, in some situations.

+1. As an adult I usually explain to the people around me (awkwardly) that it's a hacking cough I've had for weeks and I'm not contagious. Pretty sure some people don't believe me even though it's true.

A 6 year old probably wouldn't know to do that.

And 6 year olds may or may not cover their mouths when they cough, despite the best possible teaching on that habit, entirely based on personality. It wildly varied among my 3 kids how good they were at 6 (still are as much older kids), despite the same parenting and reinforcement from teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I myself had a cough for about 6 weeks after an illness. I did not wear a mask for 6 weeks. Sorry not sorry. Your anxiety is not my problem.

Your thoughtlessness and incivility is a problem for all those unfortunate enough to be around you.

Sounds like you think it's unfortunate to be around people with non contagious chronic illnesses. That's a you problem.

Sounds like you don’t know how to behave properly, with grace, in a civil society. That’s a you problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I myself had a cough for about 6 weeks after an illness. I did not wear a mask for 6 weeks. Sorry not sorry. Your anxiety is not my problem.

+1
Coughing amongst kids and adults is very normal especially this time of year. Sometimes that cough means germs, but many times it doesn't. Regardless of if it does or doesn't, a person can choose to be anywhere in public they wish, and so can you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I myself had a cough for about 6 weeks after an illness. I did not wear a mask for 6 weeks. Sorry not sorry. Your anxiety is not my problem.

+1
Coughing amongst kids and adults is very normal especially this time of year. Sometimes that cough means germs, but many times it doesn't. Regardless of if it does or doesn't, a person can choose to be anywhere in public they wish, and so can you.

And you’d be the first to give a person coughing near you the stink-eye.

Because it is all about YOU!

[Anonymous]

The sound of a constant cough is also super annoying. This kid was probably an iPad/no headphones kid too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I myself had a cough for about 6 weeks after an illness. I did not wear a mask for 6 weeks. Sorry not sorry. Your anxiety is not my problem.

+1
Coughing amongst kids and adults is very normal especially this time of year. Sometimes that cough means germs, but many times it doesn't. Regardless of if it does or doesn't, a person can choose to be anywhere in public they wish, and so can you.

And you’d be the first to give a person coughing near you the stink-eye.

Because it is all about YOU!

True, if Im unable to leave a situation I will indeed give a cougher the stink eye. They can then say "sorry I have asthma" if they feel like they need too. The only time this has happened to me has been on flights. Doesn't really matter either way. I dont understand your point.

What should it be about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sister has asthma. If I did not know it, I would be quite concerned about catching her cough but she has been like that for over a decade. We can not know what is going on with other people. Move away or put a mask on. Those are the things you can control.

Asthmatics don’t cough full time non-stop. They have inhalers and other medicine that relieve coughs.

None of you could know it’s asthma just by hearing her cough.

As a parent of a kid with cough variant asthma, you don’t know what you are talking about.

Her parent may know that it is asthma and not contagious. This point in the year when the weather is cold but not quite cold enough for the leaf mold to be killed is difficult for many kids.

I do know asthma, about half of the females in my family have asthma. My mother has always had asthma and what I remember mostly is the wheezing and the inhalers. I’ve brought my two nieces to the ER many times with asthma attacks. My other two nieces have asthma but it’s controlled. Sadly my oldest niece died from an asthma attack. She had been hospitalized for asthma and Covid. She was discharged and died at home from an asthma attack.

Asthmatic coughs are treated with medications specifically for these type of dry coughs. There’s no reason a child should be suffering from a nonstop cough that is easily treated. Other coughs are not as easily treated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister has asthma. If I did not know it, I would be quite concerned about catching her cough but she has been like that for over a decade. We can not know what is going on with other people. Move away or put a mask on. Those are the things you can control.

Asthmatics don’t cough full time non-stop. They have inhalers and other medicine that relieve coughs.

None of you could know it’s asthma just by hearing her cough.

As a parent of a kid with cough variant asthma, you don’t know what you are talking about.

Her parent may know that it is asthma and not contagious. This point in the year when the weather is cold but not quite cold enough for the leaf mold to be killed is difficult for many kids.

I do know asthma, about half of the females in my family have asthma. My mother has always had asthma and what I remember mostly is the wheezing and the inhalers. I’ve brought my two nieces to the ER many times with asthma attacks. My other two nieces have asthma but it’s controlled. Sadly my oldest niece died from an asthma attack. She had been hospitalized for asthma and Covid. She was discharged and died at home from an asthma attack.

Asthmatic coughs are treated with medications specifically for these type of dry coughs. There’s no reason a child should be suffering from a nonstop cough that is easily treated. Other coughs are not as easily treated.

If what you remember mostly is the wheezing it seems likely they didn't have cough variant asthma.

During leaf mold season, my kid could be on oral steroids, inhaled steriods, another preventative med, and regular doses of an bronchodilator and still be coughing. That's what severe cough variant asthma can be like. I am very sorry for your loss, but you would think someone who had lost a family member to asthma would know it's not always an easily treated disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister has asthma. If I did not know it, I would be quite concerned about catching her cough but she has been like that for over a decade. We can not know what is going on with other people. Move away or put a mask on. Those are the things you can control.

Asthmatics don’t cough full time non-stop. They have inhalers and other medicine that relieve coughs.

None of you could know it’s asthma just by hearing her cough.

My kid with asthma has 2 different types of inhalers and it doesn’t stop his cough. He coughs from fall pollen season to cold dry winter season to spring pollen season and then is fine for like 2-3 months of summer. I’m not saying this kid in question is definitely asthmatic, and she should absolutely cover her cough, but not every cough is contagious, so I’m somewhat sympathetic.