should ds be absent from school today?

[redsofas]

ds is 3.6 and in nursery for 5 afternoons a week and loves it, scince he started he has not had any abcenses at all but today he has had dioreah twice and he has been complaining of having a belly ache for a few days now. I have already phoned the school and booked him off today but have i done the right thing as he is fine except for the dioreah.

[BudaBones]

Most nurseries and schools have a rule that children must be kept off if they have sickness or diarrhoea. Some say 24 hours and others say 48 hours. So you are right to keep him off.

[TheFoosa]

there is usually a policy that says the child shouldn't be in school for 24hrs after the symptoms have stopped, so yes, he should be at home

[carocaro]

yes you have the same with school, any poo of vomit the night before and they must stay at hime

[redsofas]

few i was worrying id unnecciserily taken him out! hes caught so much going around scince starting nursery its horrible! and i do seem to remember the 24hr policy actually now you've all mentioned it after id phoned in with ds earwigging he said 'yessssss no school! can we make a cake today then?!'

[TheFoosa]

funny how they perk up when they realise no school today