To send DS to school on Monday after he just vommed?

[MarmaladeShatkins]

I expect I'll get flamed but hear me out, first...

DS just puked up, big time. Thing is, he's perfectly fine now. He said he had tummy ache, lay down looking peaky for half an hour, chucked, now he's fine. I suspect it may have been too much to eat earlier in the day combined with cycling in the park in the sun. I'm pretty much certain that there's no bug involved.

I am SO reluctant to keep him off on Monday, even though school has a 48 hour rule. DS's attendance went down to 98% by the end of last term, as he had a week off sick with D&V after the May half term, then another 4 days off with a weird bug where he lost his appetite/slept all day. The school sent me a note home with him on the last day of last term saying they were monitoring his attendance and they'd consider contacting the relevant authorities if his attendance was low again.

So what do I do? It's early in the new term to keep him off a day for no real reason and I am paranoid about the school. Stupid arses, what do they want; us to keep sick children home or send them in so they don't balls up their OFSTED report?

I'm pretty sure I'm sending him in, if he doesn't throw up again/show any signs of illness. AIBU?

Also, there is no-one with a compromised immune system at DS's school AFAIK.

If the school rules say 48h then you should wait 48h. By coincidence DS2 was sick last night (x3). He appears fine now, but I'll have to keep him home tomorrow due to the 48h rule. I have no way to be sure if it was a bug or not, but I would be pretty annoyed if someone else didn't stick to the rules and passed it onto my children.

It is difficult, especially if you're working though.

I would send him in. Don't stress!

I wonder if the teachers adhere to these guidelines. Just musing really.

Catsofa have you had chickenpox. If so you can't catch it again That's not true, I have had it twice.

Four times, so far. I win :(

I'd also send the DDs in for a one off, known cause vomit. Common sense needs to be factored in, some kids vomit at the drop of a hat.

Little Bear - no, teachers absolutely don't adhere to the 48 hour rule. If she are not actively throwing up then you are in the classroom. Which of course makes a bit of a mockery at everyone's outrage when a parent sends a well child in who was sick 39 hours ago.

"she"? I meant "you".

no don't, not fair on other dc and staff.

By that reasoning, DD2 would have missed two complete terms of school, she was sick a lot post whooping cough recovery; the school and I had to make an educated decision that if there were no other accompanying, she could attend.

*Accompanying symptoms

What an awful use of language . . .vommed, chucked, puked! Would def keep him off for the 48hrs.

That's what I thought was probably true Oak. As you say it makes a bit of a mockery of the child rules.

What an awful use of language . . .vommed, chucked, puked!

Oh get over yourself

Has anyone used barf yet?

Hughey?

Boaked?

'May PFB has suffered an incident of emesis, would I be vair unreasonable to send him to school?'

IS there a super lovely way to say it?

I've seen it all now. I really have!

Spew. I think we missed spew.

"Lost his lunch"

is that more acceptable?

Chundered. Hurled. Blew chunks.

Hee hee! Ok fair enough, but still hate the word vom! Sorry! Or vomit, vommed etc....

Technicolour yawned.

Here you go, snowflake.

It would be very frowned upon for a teacher not to return as soon as the sickness has stopped.

I overheard a parent dropping off to ds1's class last year telling the teacher something along the lines of "she puked this morning after breakfast. But she's perked right up again now."

Teacher took kid anyway.

I'd send yours in.

I've taken him in. He's been fine since and no more sickness/no diarrhea. (sp?!)

I mentioned it to the office that he'd been sick, as DS has a habit of dropping me in the shit and the secretary said 24 hours is fine for a single episode/no squits/other symptoms. It really should say that in the school handbook.