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Anonymous wrote:Allergen alert on my cell phone today for ragweed and pollen. High levels

Allergen alert - what is this, an app? It sounds helpful as I have two allergic kids, but no allergies myself, so I never know if the cough/runny nose is allergy related or the beginning signs of a cold...

Weatherbug, mentioned by another poster as well, provides an allergen alert. We have not had DS tested for allergies but he has lots of runny noses, which lead to a cough due t post nasal drip, which his Pediatrician thinks are allergy based. Generally speaking, if he has a sniffly nose and no other symptom, we assume it is allergy based.

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Anonymous wrote:Allergen alert on my cell phone today for ragweed and pollen. High levels

Allergen alert - what is this, an app? It sounds helpful as I have two allergic kids, but no allergies myself, so I never know if the cough/runny nose is allergy related or the beginning signs of a cold...

NP. I get allergen alerts from WeatherBug. But for my allergic kids, allergies are 10 or 11 months out of the year.

I lost count of how many times my kindergartner missed school because she was sick last year. New school... new germs. She was out a week several times with flu like symptoms last winter. She kept getting these really bad colds and coughs, with moderate fevers. No stomach bugs, knock wood. The worst part was that the germs seemed to be new for all of us. My coworker talks about last year as the time I was sick for six months straight. I sent my daughter to school unless I thought the congestion, cough or sleep deprivation would make her absolutely miserable at school. Fevers meant she'd stay home for at least a day.

Anonymous wrote:Allergen alert on my cell phone today for ragweed and pollen. High levels

Allergen alert - what is this, an app? It sounds helpful as I have two allergic kids, but no allergies myself, so I never know if the cough/runny nose is allergy related or the beginning signs of a cold...

Don’t underestimate how tired K makes a kid for the first few months, even those used to a long day

She woke up happy with just more of the same cough this morning and headed off to school.

Allergen alert on my cell phone today for ragweed and pollen. High levels

Former 2nd grade teacher here. If parents kept kids home for a cough and a minor runny nose, they would miss half the year.

My 2nd Grader has a runny nose and some sneezing. There are no other symptoms. That normally means allergies. The weather has shifted, there are different things in the air. We have been giving him his allergy medicines. I joked that he must be allergic to school. He told me he wasn’t because he would have a runny nose and sneeze all the time and it would have started in Kindergarten.

A simple cough is not a reason to miss school.

Unless she's actually sick, send her. A bit of a cough is no reason to stay home from school, and they're all tired at the end of the first week.

^^figure out

Idk. My 1st grader has missed 2 of 3 days so far due to illness. It is what it is. Sending your kid to school when sick doesn’t help anyone. Your child isn’t going to get as much out of the day as they otherwise could have (and not allowing for proper recovery could make it worse) and you don’t want to make other kids sick.

If your child needs to stay home, keep her home. It’s K, she’ll bounce back and forgive out the routine.

Just to be clear is she’s really sick I intend to keep her home. But if she just has a cough I’d have definitely sent her to daycare. Now it’s balancing not wanting to throw off the new routine/transition with not wanting to put her in a stressful situation if she’s not feeling 100%. Advice?

It’s the first week of kindergarten and our kid was acting really tired this afternoon. I though it might just be starting kindergarten but she’s coughing now and I’m worried she’s coming down with something. How bad is it to kiss days the first week of kindergarten. Drop offs have been rough but she seems to be enjoying it.