MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.

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[Anonymous]

My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

Hmmm. There's a lot going on there. Good chance the whole school shuts down and they set up a perimeter around the building with police tape. They may even declare the school a hot zone and call in the CDC. There's no overreaction possible that MCPS can't top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

Hmmm. There's a lot going on there. Good chance the whole school shuts down and they set up a perimeter around the building with police tape. They may even declare the school a hot zone and call in the CDC. There's no overreaction possible that MCPS can't top.

The guidance clearly says symptoms that are not diagnosed as some other ailment. Easiest thing would be to get a note from the doctor in case the nurse discovers the diarrhea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

Hmmm. There's a lot going on there. Good chance the whole school shuts down and they set up a perimeter around the building with police tape. They may even declare the school a hot zone and call in the CDC. There's no overreaction possible that MCPS can't top.

The guidance clearly says symptoms that are not diagnosed as some other ailment. Easiest thing would be to get a note from the doctor in case the nurse discovers the diarrhea.

What makes you think pediatricians in this area want to get caught up in this and have the burden be put on them to write off a kid's symptoms as something else? The last thing pediatricians would want is a slew of symptomatic kids flooding their offices seeking waivers to the county's dumb policy. My pediatrician for one will not write a note waiving symptoms. I know this because one of the early guidelines put out by the private school my son was in last year was to have the doctor write a note confirming the symptoms are not COVID-related. My son has seasonal allergies. My doctor would not agree to write any such note and a negative COVID test was our only way to return to school. I think the private school finally dropped the doctor's note thing because unlike the county, they've evolved in their thinking on this and realized that is not an effective way to mitigate COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.

Sure, I can agree that kids should go home if they have any of those symptoms. What I don’t agree is that the rest of the class should go home too. That’s insane!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.

Sure, I can agree that kids should go home if they have any of those symptoms. What I don’t agree is that the rest of the class should go home too. That’s insane!

Exactly. Sick kid goes home, the rest stays. Conduct more frequent surveillance testing on the rest of the class- this is where rapid antigen tests would work well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:cough
difficulty breathing
new loss of taste or smell
fever ≥100.4°
sore throat
severe headache,
diarrhea
vomiting

Those seem perfectly reasonable.

These seem reasonable to me, too.

My kid has ongoing coughing once in a while ( like a few times a day), and is currently having diarrhera because we are told by doctor to give daily Miralax till the end of year. I am surprised Miralax cause diarrhea but she is seriously constipated. Should I give miralax daily on school days per doctor instruction or not? Can line define coughing and diarrhea? And sometimes she gags on food and vomit if she eats too fast,that is considered vomiting?

I have allergic asthmatic cough myself; I’ll need to be sure to keep it under control this fall with antihistamine and steroid inhaler but otherwise, if I had an uncontrollable cough I Should stay home.

No one should be in school with the other things... although as long as kids don’t complain of sore throat no one will know they have one.

Sure, I can agree that kids should go home if they have any of those symptoms. What I don’t agree is that the rest of the class should go home too. That’s insane!

Exactly. Sick kid goes home, the rest stays. Conduct more frequent surveillance testing on the rest of the class- this is where rapid antigen tests would work well.

Yes but that would require some level of effort from the schools. God forbid.

[Anonymous]

Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

He quit. Somehow the sequel to this movie is worse.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand!!! Can someone clarify this for me? If the kid is sent home (with his entire class) what about the kids on the bus? and the ones from his grade he might have played with at recess? Are they now going to quarantine the bus and the grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

Gayles is gone. Keep up. Time to blame someone else. Maybe Obama?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gayles is such a hypocrite. Thinks he’s above the CDC guidance for his personal international travel yet talks MCPS into a policy stricter than what the CDC recommends for students. Jerk.

He left weeks ago and did not have a hand in this policy. This is proof you're ready to draw and quarter your favorite villains reflexively. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

Everyone keeps saying the entire class is sent home, is that right? Or are schools going to follow the policy of only those within 3 feet if masked and unvaccinated?