APS - when your kid has a cold

[Anonymous]

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

+1. If you just went initially for the test, you would already have the results by now.

[Anonymous]

APS is offers free covid tests at several locations. Just take your kid to get tested. Results come back quickly. Once you get the all clear you can send him to school.

[Anonymous]

We are in FCPS but are keeping our kid home with a cold. He did a televisit and a COVID test, per FCPS policy. He is still snifflinf and coughing a bit and we figured wearing a mask with those symptoms would be bad. And FCPS has said they send kids with a cough home. We are hoping to send him tomorrow but he is doing virtual learning today.

[Anonymous]

Get a test. APS has testing locations at several school (there's one at Wakefield) and will do BOTH types of tests FOR FREE. A neighbor just had her kid tested after she threw up one afternoon. She got the rapid results within 15 minutes and the PCR results the next day.

I would have done it yesterday so you'd have the results back in time to send Thursday.

It's a pandemic. Yes you test, even when you are tired of it. I will agree it's unlikely to be covid bc the area numbers are very low right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You missed the point. You can’t say covid looks just like a cold in kids but when your kid gets cold symptoms complain that you don’t need to test and can send your kid to school bc it’s obviously not COVID...it’s “just a cold.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You missed the point. You can’t say covid looks just like a cold in kids but when your kid gets cold symptoms complain that you don’t need to test and can send your kid to school bc it’s obviously not COVID...it’s “just a cold.”

sooo.... OP.... what did the ped say?

are you sending your kid back to school?

if so, please post the school.

[Anonymous]

For a kid without a fever and a fresh negative Covid test, would you send them to sxhool? If they felt terrible I’d let them stay home, but for sniffles I’d send them to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a kid without a fever and a fresh negative Covid test, would you send them to sxhool? If they felt terrible I’d let them stay home, but for sniffles I’d send them to school.

Great question. Do kids with just sniffles (negative covid, no fever) need to stay home?

[Anonymous]

Guessing a doctor on a screen will say things like, “that sounds like X, but we can’t be sure.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a kid without a fever and a fresh negative Covid test, would you send them to sxhool? If they felt terrible I’d let them stay home, but for sniffles I’d send them to school.

Great question. Do kids with just sniffles (negative covid, no fever) need to stay home?

NP. Our kid has the sniffles (probably tail end of congestion), never had a fever, got a negative covid test. We sent kid to school but let the principal and teacher know.

[Anonymous]

OP, here. Covid tests were negative. Missing school since there is no virtual option and at the coughing stage of the cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For a kid without a fever and a fresh negative Covid test, would you send them to sxhool? If they felt terrible I’d let them stay home, but for sniffles I’d send them to school.

In this situation, I would call the school nurse and ask for guidance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guessing a doctor on a screen will say things like, “that sounds like X, but we can’t be sure.”

Our note read that the Child had symptoms consistent with a cold and was free to return to school when his symptoms receded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you really in non-covid times keep your sick kid home for 7 days for the cold to run its course?

For students to safely return to school, it should be at least 24 hours without fever or vomiting without aid of medication. No need for hyperbole.

But yes, please don't send kids with fevers to school even if it means missing a full week. They're generally miserable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you really in non-covid times keep your sick kid home for 7 days for the cold to run its course?

For students to safely return to school, it should be at least 24 hours without fever or vomiting without aid of medication. No need for hyperbole.

But yes, please don't send kids with fevers to school even if it means missing a full week. They're generally miserable

You are talking about pre-covid.

Now kids stay home for cold symptoms too. Runny nose & mild cough can keep you out for a week.