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Are you sending your children into school with a cold?

58 replies

Handsnotwands · 15/09/2020 07:37

Obviously a cold. No cough just snot. No temperature. I’d usually send him in but not sure what to do

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FippertyGibbett · 15/09/2020 07:39

Yes I would, but I’d ring school first and explain as they might just send him home.

hypochondriaceveywhere · 15/09/2020 07:40

Mine had a cold last week and I sent him in. Cleared up now.

dementedpixie · 15/09/2020 07:41

Yes. We got letters sent out to say to send them in with the cold

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musicalfrog · 15/09/2020 07:55

I would and have. Schools know the difference.

Spied · 15/09/2020 07:55

Yes, I have.

emptyshelvesagain · 15/09/2020 07:56

It depends on how they are in themselves?

FreshfieldsGal · 15/09/2020 08:00

I kept ds off school, he had a nasty cough, headache, sore throat, and snotty sneezes. He was tested, came back negative thankfully.

Mistressiggi · 15/09/2020 08:03

It's pointless to ask this question, the issue isn't whether you've decided it's the cold but whether this cold involves a high temp, continuous cough or loss of smell/taste.
Which obviously a cold can do, but equally well could be Covid.
If you're asking "should I keep him off to stop him passing this on" well as a teacher I wish you would, because if i catch the cold I might get a cough which means me being off work for a couple of days. As a parent I don't know how I would keep them off with a cold.

KaleJuicer · 15/09/2020 08:04

Yes. Snot only - no fever or cough. He was sneezing and form teacher sent nurse to check him out - school nurse said appeared to be a cold and gave him some more tissues!

dementedpixie · 15/09/2020 08:19

I did keep ds off for a few days at the start of his cold though (really bad sore throat and blocked nose) so he was off Thursday, Friday, Monday. He went back with the tail end of his cold on the Tuesday

ALLIS0N · 15/09/2020 08:21

Of course, the rules on this have not changed.

It’s quite clear what the symptoms are for keeping them off school.

CheeseAndBeans · 15/09/2020 08:23

Yes. Thankfully my two have snotty noses only though. No cough, or temperature. Been checking them regularly and would keep them off/get tested if they developed either symptom. Would keep them off anyways pre Covid if they had a temp or felt really poorly.

greenlynx · 15/09/2020 08:28

Runny nose, sneezing, etc are not signs of coronavirus so I would. I wouldn’t with the temperature over 37.5.

Octopus37 · 15/09/2020 08:32

Kept my DS off today, he has a sore throat, says it feels like tonsillitas. Not sure whether to get him tested or not. Got my Dad staying with us at the moment, all busy and a bit awkward.

DontBeShelfish · 15/09/2020 08:33

I did send DD into nursery on Monday with a cold. No temperature, no cough, and she was fine in herself. I was more mindful than I would usually be about it, and I did tell her room leader that she had a cold.

ProudAuntie76 · 15/09/2020 08:35

I’m keeping them off with head colds to avoid them passing it on to other children or teachers.

emptyshelvesagain · 15/09/2020 08:53

Kept my DS off today, he has a sore throat, says it feels like tonsillitas. Not sure whether to get him tested or not.

Does he have any of the 3 symptoms that dictate whether he needs a test or not?

mynameiscalypso · 15/09/2020 08:57

@DontBeShelfish

I did send DD into nursery on Monday with a cold. No temperature, no cough, and she was fine in herself. I was more mindful than I would usually be about it, and I did tell her room leader that she had a cold.
This is exactly what I did - I asked if it was okay when I dropped DS off given he was just sneezing/snotty and no other symptoms. They said it was fine and half his class were like that. Realistically, he could only have got it from nursery in the first place. I can now confirm that it's definitely a snotty cold as I have it too.
Minniemouseandcat20 · 15/09/2020 09:01

Personally I don't think sending a kid in with a heavy cold/sore throat is right - they're obviously infectious, regardless of Covid! If it's a tiny bit of a runny nose at the end of a cold, fine, but wait until most symptoms have cleared IMO.

We really need to change the culture around working/'pushing through' when ill - for adults and children.

Xuli · 15/09/2020 09:02

We've been sent guidance from the school clearly saying that a cold is fine, though obviously keep them off if they're feeling rubbish with it

AntiSocialDistancer · 15/09/2020 09:02

@greenlynx

Runny nose, sneezing, etc are not signs of coronavirus so I would. I wouldn’t with the temperature over 37.5.
Fyi it's a temp over 37.8.
BlusteryShowers · 15/09/2020 09:31

My son has a runny nose only and I'm sending him to Nursery.

mindutopia · 15/09/2020 09:37

Yes, if it's a cold with no COVID symptoms. Youngest dc's nursery has a policy that they cannot come in with cold symptoms (specifically runny nose), but I have thus far just ignored that because I can't keep him home just because he has a runny nose or else I'll never manage to work. We did all have a virus with nausea, headaches, cough and youngest had a temp of 39. In that case, yes, he stayed home and we got tested (thankfully, negative).

sunshinesheila · 15/09/2020 09:39

We have a sore throat, full of snot and feel pretty grim. Usually I would have filled with paracetamol and sent them on their way. Both schools don't want them in till we have a negative result back. So we qued for 2 and a half hours in the sunshine yesterday for a test. Hopefully negative result will be back asap.

Batchcooking · 15/09/2020 09:41

Had this very issue this week. It's impossible. I'm a teacher as well so we have double the germs in my house. DD has a basic cold last week (just tired and snotty nose). I sent her in.

Last night she was coughing her guts up. I had to phone in her school and mine and am now trying to get a test. I knew she would get a cough and I'm sure it's caused by snot dripping down her throat when she is laying down. I agonised this morning as my school already have lots of staff off with kids who have symptoms. But at the end of the day, we just need to obey the rules.