Do I keep kid home?
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Anonymous
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We’ve had our 4 year old back at preschool for 2 weeks. The rules are you can’t send your kid with a cough, fever, or family member with COVID symptoms. My 4 year old is the only member of our household who had been around anyone outside our house recently (both parents work home, older kids doing DL). On Friday the 4 year old came home from school with a runny nose and when I took his temperature before bed, it was 99.2 (normally 98.7). Kid seems tired (which I mostly attribute to school taking a lot out of him) but not sick and only current symptom is a sort of raspy voice, which I think is allergies. No fever, no coughing, no complaints of any aches or pains. Do I send him to school Monday or do I keep him home for a day to see if this progresses one way or the other.
Pre covid, I would have never kept a kid home for this, but I’m trying to not be that parent in this era. |
Anonymous
| Yes you keep him home. |
Anonymous
| Until when? |
Anonymous
Seriously, till child is better and no fever. And, get a COVID test. |
Anonymous
| 14 days and a test. |
Anonymous
99.2 is not a fever, especially in a child. |
Anonymous
| Get a test. |
Anonymous
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These are not normal times, OP. Any sign that anything is not normal means staying home until a non-infectious diagnosis is found or the person gets better. You don't want to be passing around any virus of any sort when COvid-19 is taking up so much resources. We are a family with multiple, 3-season allergies, haven't seen anyone at all and everyone is staying home. Two of us are sniffling because of ragweed allergies. We wouldn't be able to go to work or school even if we could! |
Anonymous
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OP here - temperature has been normal since Saturday morning. Pediatrician said don’t get a covid test because he had no Covid symptoms. So what I hear everyone here saying is that any illness means no school for 2 weeks? That is definitely not the guidance from our school, but I guess I Can keep him home if his voice is still raspy tomorrow (his only remaining symptom).
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Anonymous
I would send him if you had to. No need to keep him based on his symptoms. |
Anonymous
If you had to go into an office, you would. And then your kids would have to have some kind of child care. You are lucky you can all stay home. |
Anonymous
PP you replied to. You are exactly right - this is why countries need rapid testing and contact tracing and effective quarantines, because some people can't isolate for every sniffle. It's a crying shame that the majority of Western countries (US and most of Europe), who had the means of developing all of these things, just like wealthy Asian countries, chose not to do so because their populations value individual choice more than communal safety. It falls to South Korea and Japan, etc, to implement such measures. Guess who will suffer less economically? All I hope is that Western countries learn their lesson for next time. |
Anonymous
You definitely send. 99 is not a fever and without any other symptoms he’s fine. Keeping out of school for two weeks for a sniffle is crazy. You’re hearing the super conservative opinion above, those of us who are actually sending kids to school know that colds and other things didn’t disappear bc of Covid. |
Anonymous
OP here and thank you. I was leaning this way and just needed someone with a kid in school to tell me they would do the same. I am pretty religious about taking everyone in the family’s temp morning and night and per the pediatrician, view fever as 99.5 or above with a forehead thermometer or 100.4 with and ear thermometer. This is the metric our school uses and so that’s what I’ve been using. |
Anonymous
It’s crazy to keep kids at home for every sniffle and sneeze, especially since you have consulted your doctor.. And some of us have to go in to the office. |