Child who was very sick in school twice yesterday morning

[yetanothernamechnager]

was back in school taday looking awful they are infants ffs not doing A levels

[MackerelOfFact]

It's never ok to send a sick child to school, especially an infectious one, but if the parents have to work and the child isn't actually vomiting, maybe they didn't think there was much point keeping him home.

Or maybe they are irresponsible monsters, who knows.

[Butterbur]

Aren't you supposed to keep a child at home for at least 24 hours ( and 48 hours in some schools) after the last vomiting episode? I'm surprised that they didn't send him/her home.

[happystory]

It's 48 hours, had a leaflet from the Health Protection Agency in the course of my job recently. Child should not be in school....

[Niceguy2]

School should send him/her home and tell parent.

[ljgibbs]

I'm surprised school accepted them.

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

I imagine if the parents are at work, they'll dump and run.
I feel sorry for the child. Not much fun being poorly then having to go to school.

[DaisySteiner]

What do you expect when teachers themselves are in school less than 12 hours after developing D&V (namely my father who was sick several times on Monday night after catching a bug from my kids at the weekend and dragged himself into work on Tuesday morning.)

[POFAKKEDDthechair]

This is why when a kid gets a D&V bug it then sweeps the school.

[Poogles]

Please don't assume all working parents 'dump & run' with a sick child. Most of us would never do it. I'm sure there are some SAHM who do send sick kids into school as they have things to do themselves!

[DanceInTheDark]

Well if the school says 24 hours since last episode then it is technically almost 24 hours if the child has not been sick since.....

DS1 looks shocking today - nothing wrong with him though, just looks pale and tired nd ill!) some days.

[kerstina]

I think you should name and shame the school they need to make it clear to the parents the 48 hour rule if it is a vomiting bug.

[marriednotdead]

It does depend why the child was sick though surely? It doesn't automatically follow that they are infectious.

My DS (13) has always been a puker. Colds or anything his stomach doesn't fancy trigger a pretty fast ejection of his last meal. On the plus side, he usually recovers within the hour and has never had diarrhoea, presumably because it never gets that far into his system.

Unless he was unwell beyond that, I would send him in.

Does sound as if that child was still poorly though...

[BelleDeChocChipCookieMonster]

My son threw up 1 bus stop away from school on Monday. I took him into school so that I could borrow a bucket for the journey as it was alot closer then home. He's gone back to school today as it's 48 hours. I'd never send a sick child into school.

[duchesse]

My daughter (13) went back yesterday 24 hours after her last vomiting episode and I've just had to go and fetch her from school today as she's feeling ill again. Wish I'd gone with my instincts not to let her go in yesterday but she really wanted to go. This is a nasty bug all right.

[Marne]

The same happened at dd's school a few weeks ago, i went to see the head and threatened to take my dd's home (a bit OTT i know), my dd gets very poorly if she picks up a bug and we often end up in hospital with her . It makes me angry that a parent cant keep their child at home for 2 days to stop the bug spreading and for their child to recover.

[ASecretLemonadeDrinker]

But the child may have been sick because they raided the cookie jar for breakfast, or ate an out of date yoghurt or anything. Sure, if it's infectious, keep them off, but they are toddlers and are never really well/refreshed etc. all the time - I send my DS in when he may look awful (because he has woken at 5am and refused to go back to sleep) but I can't keep him off everytime he does something like that. Also, my DH gets in trouble every time he takes a day off and doesn't get paid. If he doesn't work one day, that's one or two bills unpaid.

[Chrysanthemum5]

But maybe the school have said it is ok? DS was sick in class last year when he was 5, it was about 2pm. I asked the school about exclusion time and they said to bring him in the next morning if he wasn't sick again.

I thought that wasn't long enough so I kept him off for another day to make sure he was ok, and then it was the weekend. And I work so it's not all working parents dumping sick children and running!

But if I'd followed the school's advice your OP could have been about me.

[emptyshell]

Very little the school can do when the kid's left at the classroom door and the parent's bolted and isn't answering their mobile to be honest. We can't exactly turn them loose onto the streets, there's a limit to how long we can leave them sat outside the office while calling home to try to get someone to pick them up - we do the best we can.

And yes, SOMETIMES (note that word) it is best described as a dump and run.

[DanceInTheDark]

DS2 is often sick when he laughs too much.

[Marne]

Surely when you have children you consider the fact you will have to take days off work to look after them ?

And no its not just working parents who do this.

I have had jobs where they have had a 48 hour rule and have always stuck buy it. Why would i want my child or me to infect other children and put them though having a nasty bug?

If your childs been sick, keep them home, if they look tired and pale (because of a late night) then send them in.

[lucykate]

a friend of mine (well, ex-friend) actually shouted at her ds because he had diarrhea at pre school and she had to pick him up, he was 3. she did work, but this was on her day off.

[NordicPrincess]

if the child is obviously really unwell or just tired from being unwell the previous day they should stay home. But sometimes they are better if their mind is kept off it by being with friends or at school. I think it depends on what illness and contageousness (word?) etc

[ilovesprouts]

i always thought they was ment to stay at home for 48hrs ,at ds2 school they do .

[OTTMummA]

Im most unpopular at work as my DS has been picking up everything recently, and i won't have him in Nursery unwell.

Dh and I take turns in having time off to keep him at home.

This yr he has already had HF&M, Chicken pox - it was a nasty case aswell, 2 D&V bugs, 3/4 fevers, a skin infection and numerous colds.

Last time i took him to the Docs she said to keep him of Nursery for as long as possible, a week or so, to let him fully recover.

We did that a few weeks ago, he's been fine since, sometimes they just need a proper rest.

[rockinhippy]

on the face of it, I would say "poor little mite " :( ,

but from my own experience it might not be as straight forward as it looks, theres been many an occasion when my own DD has gone to School looking pale with panda eyes, & often times she suffers diareah at School, sometimes sent home too, so I'm sure for the parents that don't know her situation it can look very suspect & I can imagine they could complain in the same way you do

BUT, she has ongoing health problems, that flare up from time to time, sometimes ongoing, & unless very very bad, we have to manage it the best we can & she has to go to School regardless or she would just miss to much, the School know the problems & work with her on it with rest time etc, & call me to collect her only if its really bad

Its possible there are other factors you don't know with this Child, even something such as a known & now passed source of food poisoning, or he was sick due to another none contagious health problem