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Paracetamol in high schools

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DumpedByText · 27/03/2022 21:24

If your high school child has a headache/toothache or other pain and needs paracetamol how do the school go about giving it to them.

Do they phone home each and every time they need it or do you agree to it at the beginning of the new school year, or do you agree for the duration of their time at the school (unless circumstances change).

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CMOTDibbler · 28/03/2022 07:40

At ds's school they don't give them out, and they aren't supposed to have their own either. So Ds has a strip of two in a plastic bag in his backpack with strict instructions not to give them to anyone else, then I give him some more if he's had to use them for a headache

RhinestoneCowgirl · 28/03/2022 07:45

DC are both sensible, I allow them to take their own paracetamol in with them, after a long chat about not taking too much. I have not asked their school (secondary) what their policy is.

Like a previous poster, one of my DC gets migraine, so he also has migraleve in his bag after some bad experiences at school.

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 28/03/2022 07:48

No idea what the actual policy is but dd has paracetamol/ibuprofen in her pocket for periods pain as do most of the girls I would have thought.

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WhatNoRaisins · 28/03/2022 07:49

Schools seem to have different policies but in the real world most teenagers just take their own painkillers without involving anyone else.

waterlego · 28/03/2022 07:53

Our school phone every time. DS has been there three years and not needed one yet. DD has needed them a few times for period pain, and ended up taking her own in, which I don’t think they are actually supposed to do, but I trust her to take them sensibly when needed, and not to hand them out to other people.

GeneLovesJezebel · 28/03/2022 07:54

My kids all carried their own.

itsjustnotok · 28/03/2022 08:20

DD also has her own in her bag for period pain. I don’t really think it’s necessary for her to go to matron a few times a day for half a week every month.

reluctantbrit · 28/03/2022 08:33

DD now takes her own but she is in Y10 now and only after a very lengthly discussion.

At home she also knows to tell us that , she can't help herself despite knowing where the stuff is.

I think I wouldn't have done it i n Y7 or Y8.

No idea of the school's policy. Saying that, hte school asked to supply the girls with painkillers for a residential in case they were on their period. So they must be ok for them to do it themselves.

milcal · 28/03/2022 08:53

My DD has them in her school bag. I don't know what the policy is at school 🤷‍♀️ but o trust her to take them and not give them to any of her friends.

I even trusted her in primary one time she needed them and I was working so couldn't go to the school.

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