Are nursery really as strict as it is said where sickness are concerned?

[Moonlight1972]

Or it’s just a myth ? My cm just sent my child away (again) for a pcr test because he had a cough and runny nose. I’m thinking about making the switch!

Yes usually

Yes, if anything they're likely to be stricter. A positive test could shut the whole place down.

I’d be more worried if a CM wasn’t sending home a coughing child tbh.

Nurseries in general are stricter in my experience. My nursery will currently take a child with a runny nose who is clearly otherwise well, but a cough would be a different story.

Mine have been in with colds a couple of times throughout this and not been sent home. They've stayed open throughout and have only had one case that I know of which meant DD had to isolate for the 10 days. That was about 8 months ago I think.

Do you seriously think a nursery will ignore COVID guidelines

I did a lateral flow test last week end and it was negative so that’s why I sent him, I wouldn’t have sent him otherwise! Thank you for your comments!

Why didn't you do a PCR test? Lateral flow tests are only for asymptomatic people, not someone with a cough.

Go and get a test.

You should be doing a PCR if he has a cough whether he's in nursery, childminder or no childcare. Nothing has changed in relation to Covid symptoms and testing. LFTs are not for symptomatic people.

That isn't strict - that is just normal sticking to the rules. Nursery will not take a child with covid symptoms without a negative PCR test. I don't really believe any setting would.

All depends on the nursery.
Some places are blurring the lines between an obvious cold and covid.

@Danikm151

All depends on the nursery. Some places are blurring the lines between an obvious cold and covid.

I would remove my child from any nursery that was letting children in with COVID symptoms. It's not up to them to 'blur the lines'

I didn’t think there was such a thing as an obvious cold. Some people with covid don’ t have the three main classic symptoms. I don’t think it’s ok to send them in with a cough

Ours is strict, but there is common sense too.
Temps on the door, if have a temp PCR to return. If gets temp at nursery again PCr to return or 10 days self isolate.
DD has been sent home twice for this, the 2nd (18 months old) she had a temp of 41.3!
Coughs they are less strict on as let’s face it most toddler and babies get a cough when they get a cold. If the cough is bad, they count how many times in an hour…. Then they monitor over the next. Coughs a lot = pcr tesr’t!

Just for one second imagine the implications for your childminder should your child test positive. Not only the implications to her but all the families that use her services.
I am a childminder and is extremely frustrating when parents do not follow the advice and guidance and then make us out to be the bad guys, how would you feel if another child was displaying symptoms and your childminder didn't act ? We're dammed if we do and dammed if we don't.
Testing your child last week on a LFT is no good either as your child has been displaying symptoms, you know the responsible thing to do is to PCR test.

We've used both CM and nursery. Nursery were generally much stricter than CM I found.

If your child has symptoms they need a PCR Not a lateral flow
Cold symptoms will require a PCR
A lateral flow that was negative last week proves nothing
Jeeze I'm sick of people behaving like the op
Just test
And then isolate if necessary
There really is no hope of this shit show ending soon

Ours was totally fine with sending in a mildly ill child with calpol before COVID.
Now following guidelines so fine to return with PCR negative.

Yes and so they should.

Yup, ours is very strict. Sent straight home with a temp or cough, not allowed back without a PCR test which they want to see the email result for.

They've done pretty well - big outbreak over the winter lockdown and one case in late spring which shut down half the nursery, but otherwise Covid-free.

Those were the symptoms I had just before a positive Covid test

The ones I've worked at were supposed to be strict but the mums always managed to talk them round, it's no wonder we were always ill.

@SirenSays

The ones I've worked at were supposed to be strict but the mums always managed to talk them round, it's no wonder we were always ill.

How can you talk a nursery into taking a child with COVID symptoms

We are strict about COVID symptoms and any other illness they are supposed to quarantine for (eg chicken pox).

However we also know our children and which one always has a cough because of asthma, for example, so there is awareness of new symptoms and ones a child commonly has. We wouldn’t send that child home fora cough but would if they also had temperature.

We no longer allow calpol to be given before arrival. If they need it because they are poorly they shouldn’t be there anyway and if they need it for something else, teething for example, then they can explain to a member of staff who can take their temperature and then give them some.

Yeah nurseries won’t be less strict.

My DS has asthma and just coughs a lot sometimes. His nursery trust my judgement as to whether his cough is asthma cough or a new cough (not always easy to tell as he can be triggered by pollen, damp weather etc etc)- but they’re quite relaxed with us because I’ve always erred on the side of caution and PCR tested every time he’s had a notable asthma exacerbation that hasn’t settled down with inhaler and antihistamine. If anything I’ve been “too” cautious I think.

If DS had anything like temp, unwell look, d or v- he’d have been sent home like any other child. And indeed was once or twice.

Our nursery haven’t had a single case during the pandemic.