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AIBU?

To ask you how literally you take the 48 hr rule?

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lougle · 30/11/2013 17:35

So if your child is sick, how literally do you apply the 48hr rule?

If they were sick in the afternoon of Saturday, would you say 'no school on Sunday, back on Monday' or '48 hours after sickness is Monday afternoon, so back on Tuesday'?

If they are sick at 3am do you count that as 'Tuesday night' or 'Wednesday morning'?

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baddyfreckleface · 01/12/2013 12:56

Well dd finally stopped being sick at ten this morning, although so far she has only had two ice pops so could be more later if she eats. Even if she is ok from now I think I will keep her off till Wednesday just in case as she hasn't had sickness as bad as this before

cerealqueen · 01/12/2013 23:24

VivaLeBeaver, please please do name and shame that NHS organisation, as that is just DISGRACEFUL. Healthcare Commission please - a front line NHs organisation. Am shaking with fury at that.

minouminou · 02/12/2013 00:24

Thankfully the DC have had fewer than five D&V bugs between them for their entire lives, but I still do the 48 hour rule... If you send them back in early, then they'll just get into bug-tennis...volleying bugs back and forth and it goes on for ages.
It's a massive nuisance, and I'm self-employed, so no earnings for that day/those days, while still paying nursery/ after school club fees. I'd rather only do this once per bug, so I keep to the 48 hour rule.

And yes, Viva, name and shame.

grumpyoldbat · 02/12/2013 00:24

cereal sadly what viva describes is pretty standard behaviour across the NHS. One of my colleagues had disciplinary action taken against them for suffering a MI. They even called the coronary care unit demanding my colleague returned to work. It's a very stressful environment to work in these days.

Hope your dd is a lot better now baddy.

NoComet · 02/12/2013 15:42

Ok that was a bit flippant, but the DDs primary is only 4 classes, mixed year groups with lots of siblings, attached pre school and now shared before and shared school care. The chances of escaping exposure to any bug that is infectious before the symptoms show is zero.

Misspixietrix · 02/12/2013 17:00

Was only speaking to someone today who said "oh dc off with bug but coming back tomorrow". I don't think my comments about parents who bring the DCs back to school too soon are the reason for such epidemics was taken too lightly

chillykitty · 02/12/2013 17:40

Do as it says if dd was sick mon morning I wouldn't let her back till we'd eve assuming she seemed better

ilovesmurfs · 02/12/2013 17:42

we stick rigidly to 48hr rule. my mum.is a nurse and always impressed upon me the importance of doing so.

valiumredhead · 02/12/2013 17:47

48 hours since last vomit and at least one good meal.

cathpip · 02/12/2013 17:50

48 hrs is 48hrs, irrelevant of wether they are bouncing off the walls. My friend has a very low immune system and really does not need a sickness bug just like the disabled sibling of one of my ds's friends, it would hospitalise her....

TheBigJessie · 02/12/2013 18:40

We've just had it. I waited 48 hours after the last vomit/dash to the toilet.By that time it was the weekend!

lougle · 02/12/2013 19:19

I'm quite cross, tbh. I kept DD3 off today and reassured her teacher that she would be back tomorrow.

Her 48 hours was up at 16.30 and she was due to swim at 17.30, so I decided she could go as she seems to be feeling better. We were in the foyer, taking shoes off, etc., when a boy came in looking decidedly peaky saying to his Mum 'I really don't think I can do this. My tummy hurts so much. I just don't think I can manage...'

His mum marched him in

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Idespair · 02/12/2013 19:35

For a D&V bug, you absolutely must apply the entire 48 hours and I always do. In some cases, judgement needs to be used. My dd gets travel sick and I am allowed by the school to send her in if she has puked in the car but feels completely fine once she gets out of it.

Greenmug · 02/12/2013 19:43

I stick with 48 hours and it seriously pisses me off when people don't. My daughter has Type 1 diabetes and when she has a D & V bug, more often than not she has to be admitted to hospital as they affect her very badly. It's fucking awful.

TheBigJessie · 02/12/2013 19:52

lougle that's pretty horrible to the child himself, as well!

I hope she gets ill herself!

Misspixietrix · 02/12/2013 21:02

That's another thing. I don't get the Parents that march them back in when they clearly aren't well. I'm nearly 30 and still want my mum when I'm THAT poorly! Guessing a young kid probably wants to be with his mum when they are THAT poorly too. Completely irresponsible if you ask me. Like those that end up closing bloody hospital wards down because they felt decidedly horrific but still thought it was okay to gp visitng people who obviously already have enough to deal with.

Permanentlyexhausted · 02/12/2013 21:51

Umm - 48 hours I guess. In 10 years of parenthood neither of my children have ever had any sort of D&V bug so this isn't something I've ever had to think about. DS does get car sick but I don't count that.

starlight1234 · 02/12/2013 22:05

My son was sick Saturday night...As a childminder, son was off Monday although fine and I lose a days pay...he was fine ..I got him to do bit of school work at home.

bolderdash · 02/12/2013 22:12

48 hours - if that falls in the middle of day, they go back the next. I was so angry when someone came round to ours without observing the rule then infected the whole family for the whole of half term. What's a day when you could set up a rollercoaster of illness for some other family.

2Tinsellytocare · 03/12/2013 09:07

I'm at the beginning of a 48 hour quarantine and its hard as DD is absolutely fine and I'm in a bad way BUT that's life, the rule is there for a reason

Misspixietrix · 03/12/2013 12:46

LaGuardia I have a fb friend who recently posted last week that the Hospital she was staying in had been closed to ALL Visitors because people couldn't abide by the 48hr rule. As others have said, it's not a matter of whether as I have heard so many times in the school playground "oh DC3 puked up three times last night but as you can see they ARE fine now" . no. No one who has thrown up three times the night before is fine now and I'm talking as the Mother of two Reflux Children! . Yes we know it's a PITA when you have to arrange for the two days etc BUT if the selfish parents who always bring their kids back too early started abiding by the rule we might no have 'Bug Tennis' as a PP so rightly said. For a Child on Chemo who has no Immune system, such bugs can knock seven bells out of them. That is why i think such parents are selfish.

2Tinsellytocare · 03/12/2013 13:23

There was a little boy with Leukaemia at my DDs pre school and I was shocked by the amount of people who were pissed off that they were asked to err on the side of caution

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Misspixietrix · 03/12/2013 13:32

2Tinsellytocare Dd had a friend in her class 2 years ago with similar problems. Her Nurses ended up coming in to explain and teach the children the importance of Hand Hygiene because it kept making her seriously ill. Funnily enough some parents were pissed off at this too .

2Tinsellytocare · 03/12/2013 13:34

Some people have no empathy

devilinside · 03/12/2013 13:56

that's the bottom line isn't it. Some people have no empathy and will always put themselves first no matter what. I always wonder when I see older children vomiting when out shopping or in a restaurant, surely their parents must have had some inkling they weren't well. Even my autistic child can tell me when he has a tummy ache

D & V bugs can kill, I have certainly heard of elderly people dying from them.

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