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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I’m nervous about my youngest going far away. Obviously, most kids survive just fine.  However, my older kids went in state and both ended up very ill to the point of my having to retrieve them from campus - mono, COVID, a newly diagnosed chronic health condition, etc. They’d been super healthy and rarely missed a school until college so I didn’t expect it.  I won’t be close by with the next one so I’ll just have to hope for the best but at minimum I will send a thermometer, Advil, masks and identify in-network healthcare near campus.[b] If they get COVID or flu, I’ll have them move to a hotel if in a shared dorm room. I’m also prepared to retrieve them if needed[/b]. [/quote]

good grief they do not need to move to a hotel for any germ even mono. by the time they feel the first symptom they have typcially already been contagious for 6-24 hrs. If their roommate has significant underlying issues such as a compromised immune system the colleges give them a single or alternative housing. I do paperwork every year for these very valid issues, and their specialists have specific meds these kids can take for the duration of flu outbreaks etc. healthy college kids stay in rooms with roommates when sick and try not to cough on each other/masks if the two of them agree to that. college kids get parainfluenza, rhinoenterovirus, flu, covid, norovirus, and walking pneumonia"(mycoplasma). all the time. especially freshman not used to the huge variety of germs in a dorm. germs are a part of life. just get them symptomatic meds that help them some and teach them not to combine too many(ie cough drops, tea, advil, nyquil, theraflu). encourage them to get flu and covid boosters, it absolutely decreases severity and duration of these illnesses which means less class  missed and less misery. encourage them to recognize the start of a germ(almost always a sore/scratchy throat) and not stay up late or overdo it when they get that first symptom. encourage them to hydrate well with electrolytes especially if it is a vomiting illness and make sure they know how to get in to student health which should be well covered at college orientation.
 -signed a pediatrician married to a teacher who are on our third rodeo sending a kid off. the kids build immunity over time just as teachers docs and nurses do in our first couple years of career.[/quote]

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