Do I keep kid home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these responses are nuts! 99.2 is not even close to a fever! The kid could be warm from running around, crying, being in a hot car. It's a totally normal temp!

Do you take your child’s temp consistently? One of my kids gets their temp checked as they get out of the car at preschool drop off and the other kid gets his temp taken by one of us at home to be logged into an app every morning before school. They are always in the 97 range. If a kid’s temp is elevated from one of the things you describe it will be fleeting. They won’t have a 99 temp over the course of hours. A child with a 99 temp for several hours who seems tired and feels a bit warm to the touch is usually fighting something. It’s really not hard to tell the difference if you know your child and you aren’t willfully ignoring evidence so you can send your kid off to school/daycare.

I am having a really hard time understanding people who don’t have any sense of heightened awareness and responsibility regarding potential illness symptoms during a pandemic. No wonder we will be stick in this holding pattern for another year or more. The sooner you realize you need to modify your thinking and behavior a bit, the better off we’ll all be. You don’t need to lock yourself in the house but you also don’t need to pretend like things aren’t very different right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these responses are nuts! 99.2 is not even close to a fever! The kid could be warm from running around, crying, being in a hot car. It's a totally normal temp!

Do you take your child’s temp consistently? One of my kids gets their temp checked as they get out of the car at preschool drop off and the other kid gets his temp taken by one of us at home to be logged into an app every morning before school. They are always in the 97 range. If a kid’s temp is elevated from one of the things you describe it will be fleeting. They won’t have a 99 temp over the course of hours. A child with a 99 temp for several hours who seems tired and feels a bit warm to the touch is usually fighting something. It’s really not hard to tell the difference if you know your child and you aren’t willfully ignoring evidence so you can send your kid off to school/daycare.

I am having a really hard time understanding people who don’t have any sense of heightened awareness and responsibility regarding potential illness symptoms during a pandemic. No wonder we will be stick in this holding pattern for another year or more. The sooner you realize you need to modify your thinking and behavior a bit, the better off we’ll all be. You don’t need to lock yourself in the house but you also don’t need to pretend like things aren’t very different right now.

We're going to be stuck in a holding pattern regardless of how many times a day you take your kid's temperature. Should people be responsible? Absolutely. But let's face it, UMC daycares are not really where the bulk of transmission is happening right now. If you're really concerned about getting out of the holding pattern you speak of, think bigger.

[Anonymous]

The temperature is not the issue, the runny nose is. Our ped said any symptom that is related to COVID, which includes a runny nose, means you should keep your kid home for 10 days to be safe. It sucks but it's the safe and responsible thing to do. There are lots of false negative tests, so having a kid tested does not mean they can go back sooner. I know we would never have been this cautious pre-COVID but that's our reality right now. We're all in this together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The temperature is not the issue, the runny nose is. Our ped said any symptom that is related to COVID, which includes a runny nose, means you should keep your kid home for 10 days to be safe. It sucks but it's the safe and responsible thing to do. There are lots of false negative tests, so having a kid tested does not mean they can go back sooner. I know we would never have been this cautious pre-COVID but that's our reality right now. We're all in this together.

Exactly. You have a good ped, seems like some others are giving terrible advice. It's hard I know, colds are so common this time of year! I fully expect we will be home 1/3 of the time in the coming months because I estimate that's the approximate amount of time our kids have a cold each winter. Mabe if everyone was equally diligent, we could get it down further.

[Anonymous]

Our preschool policy is over 99.4 AND one other symptom keep home. If temp is 99.0-99.4 with no other symptoms, you can send but they will be doing hourly temp checks at school.

If temp was over 99.4 and had another symptom, school requires dr note to return and a covid test results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The temperature is not the issue, the runny nose is. Our ped said any symptom that is related to COVID, which includes a runny nose, means you should keep your kid home for 10 days to be safe. It sucks but it's the safe and responsible thing to do. There are lots of false negative tests, so having a kid tested does not mean they can go back sooner. I know we would never have been this cautious pre-COVID but that's our reality right now. We're all in this together.

Exactly. You have a good ped, seems like some others are giving terrible advice. It's hard I know, colds are so common this time of year! I fully expect we will be home 1/3 of the time in the coming months because I estimate that's the approximate amount of time our kids have a cold each winter. Mabe if everyone was equally diligent, we could get it down further.

Ditto this. If your child has *any* symptom consistent with COVID, they need to stay home. They come back: after a doctor says it is some other condition that is safe to have at school, or after 10 days. It's a pandemic -- we have to be much more strict this year with the sniffles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our preschool policy is over 99.4 AND one other symptom keep home. If temp is 99.0-99.4 with no other symptoms, you can send but they will be doing hourly temp checks at school.

If temp was over 99.4 and had another symptom, school requires dr note to return and a covid test results.

At what temp will they send the kid home if there’s no other symptom? 99.4 is still within the range of normal. How are they taking the temps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The temperature is not the issue, the runny nose is. Our ped said any symptom that is related to COVID, which includes a runny nose, means you should keep your kid home for 10 days to be safe. It sucks but it's the safe and responsible thing to do. There are lots of false negative tests, so having a kid tested does not mean they can go back sooner. I know we would never have been this cautious pre-COVID but that's our reality right now. We're all in this together.

Exactly. You have a good ped, seems like some others are giving terrible advice. It's hard I know, colds are so common this time of year! I fully expect we will be home 1/3 of the time in the coming months because I estimate that's the approximate amount of time our kids have a cold each winter. Mabe if everyone was equally diligent, we could get it down further.

Ditto this. If your child has *any* symptom consistent with COVID, they need to stay home. They come back: after a doctor says it is some other condition that is safe to have at school, or after 10 days. It's a pandemic -- we have to be much more strict this year with the sniffles.

We all need to lobby our city/county tonnage this universal requirement because otherwise some parents will take the shortcut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these responses are nuts! 99.2 is not even close to a fever! The kid could be warm from running around, crying, being in a hot car. It's a totally normal temp!

These must be from the same ones still locked up in their basements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these responses are nuts! 99.2 is not even close to a fever! The kid could be warm from running around, crying, being in a hot car. It's a totally normal temp!

99.2 is not even close to a fever *FOR SOME PEOPLE* For many people - my kids included, it absolutely is a fever. OP indicates that 99 is high *for their kid*. That's what matters.

The 100 degree cutoff for public places is because some people do hover closer to 99, not because it means that 99.x isn't an indicative that a person is fighting something off.