Child with diahorrea school play?

[tinatsarina]

So my son had diahorrea this morning so I'm off work with him. It happened half 7 this morning but hasn't had any since. His school play is tomorrow and he has lines. Do you think if there is no more the rest of the day I could take him in tomorrow and bring him home again after the play? It's at 10. He's in good form no temperature or anything.

The he had an further incident just shows it's a bug. The problem is parents are far too quick to send their dc back to school and this is how these bugs spread. It should be 48 hours after the last incident.

OP, you're right to keep him off.

Otherwise, a tip for the spelling of diarrhoea:

Dash In A Real Rush, Hurry Or Else Accident

Even if you did take him in (which in really glad you're not) it would probably have been extremely embarrassing for you when the teacher refuses to accept him and you have to take him home today. This has happened twice this last at my school. Parent called child in sick due to diarrhea then tried to drop off next morning but was turned away because of the 48hr rule, the second was due to sickness and again turned away at the door.

I've told him we can do the play ourselves at home for daddy when he finishes work. Any other ideas to help cheer him up that don't involve being to far away from a toilet?

My 6 and 4 year olds wipe themselves so unless they expressly mentioned it I’d have no idea if they had a one off runny poo

Missing the point of the thread entirely...

If you can remember the first 3 letters of 'diarrhoea', then follow this jaunty little acrostic mnemonic to recall the rest:

Dia
Run
Run
Hurry
Or
Exploding
Arse

You're welcome.

My 6 and 4 year olds wipe themselves so unless they expressly mentioned it I’d have no idea if they had a one off runny poo

I vent quite work out why you used the

If anything you deserve it for not teaching your children to mention to you if they do a different' poo.

I used the because I was wondering if I’d done something wrong with my parenting... obviously I have, I’m not ramming it home to mention to me if they’ve done a different poo. Sometimes they tell me, but sometimes at 6 and 4 I imagine they forget as they are busy doing other things/the poo was done while at school/a hobby etc. They’re not perfect, they’re children. I will reinforce the message in future.

In fact I’m not sure why I got such an aggressive response to be honest. I didn’t realise everyone else’s children always remembered to mention everything that happened that was different to the norm. I will work on it.

When I missed my school play because of illness my mum let me open a Christmas present early (it was only a hat, scarf and gloves) could that cheer him up?

Anyway, mine is missing her school play today as she’s ill. Rubbish, but these things happen especially at this time of year.

One loose poo is not necessarily diarrhoea, I wouldn’t follow the 48 hour rule after just one watery poo if there were no other symptoms (Eg: vomiting, temperature, further poos).

The 48 hour rule is for after somebody has been ill with a diarrhoea and/ or vomiting bug, not just for any single incidence of a watery poo or being sick. There are many reasons ones can vomit or have a one-off watery poo that don’t warrant 2 days off school/ work. It’s okay to use a bit of common sense and judgement alongside the guidance.

If he’s literally just had one watery poo but then been fine for 24 hours I would definitely be send him in as sounds more likely to be something he ate or just his bowels doing something weird than an infectious illness.