To think other parents aren't following the rules?

[HamishBamish]

DS2 had one bout of diarrhoea at nursery this afternoon and is now not allowed back for 48h. He has had no other symptoms and appears fine.

I will be keeping him off for 48h as per the exclusion policy, but the same thing happened a week or so ago (he had no further issues then either) and a couple of weeks before that he was off with a vomiting bug.

AIBU to think that for him to be getting these bugs so frequently there must be other parents not sticking to the 48h exclusion rule? I'm fastidious about hygiene/hand washing and I know the nursery is too (as far as they can be), so where on earth is he picking these things up? DS2 is at school and although he did have the vomiting bug he hasn't had anything else.

I'm just fed up having one thing after the other (2 days is a long time to have a pre-schooler home if you're working), especially if other people aren't sticking to the rules. I work from home, so it's not as drastic as it would be if I had to be in the office, but I still have to work.

Well, I know a lot of things that I turn out not to know in the end.

yes i have kept ds for 48 hours a couple of times or beyond as he has obviously had a bug so I am not some risk taker. I know ds, he was a vomitty baby and can be a vomitty toddler at times. he has a habit of coughing so hard he is sick. sometimes he cries very hard he is sick, especially if he falls over. its not a bug.

Aeroflot - I had 5 parents in the same week all try and tell me that their child did not have a bug, but had eaten late/eaten too much/bounced on a trampoline/drunk too much milk etc. etc. etc.

Some of them got really arsey with me when I refused to let their child come back to school.

Their attitude was the same as yours, and the reason why so many children at my school are still becoming ill with the same bug.

If you send your child to school on Monday after he's sick on Sunday night, then in this context you are absolutely a risk taker. The only reasonable exception is an obvious case of motion sickness or (maybe) a hot-dog eating contest.

well thats the truth, ds would be constantly off pre school then, and never really go to school. Yes just because a child is sick does not mean they have a bug. Yes funnily I do keep my children off school for the recommended time and more if needed if they do, no i dont sent them in vomitting, I never have and I never would.

Maybe you should take your son to a doctor.

sometimes ds is sick when i brush his teeth and go too far back, he doesent seem to like a tooth brush in his mouth, gosh he will never be in school then.

It doesn't sound like that's what happened on Sunday night, though?

Mabey I should, he seems to be sick quite easily.

Definitely a common sense approach is needed. For instance a child throwing up through travel sickness doesn't need to be kept of school/nursery. I like to think I've done my bit over the years to ensure my children have an iron constitution and good imunity by avoiding anything that's "anti-bacterial" where I can. My house is as clean and germ-free as it needs to be.

My DD has been off nursery with some sort of bug but I totally understand why parents might take them to nursery before realising!

She was sick once in the night after her worst teething weekend so far (top 4 teeth all popping through over 3 days) so I went to work as normal yesterday after checking she was fine (seemed so) then by chance DH decided to give her some food (normally has breakfast at nursery) she threw it up straight away and so stayed at home, but in normal circumstances she'd have been at nursery before we realised!

So to some extent YABU, but a little but of me feels that she must have got it at nursery too. We're all guilty - no way everyone can catch these things every time, we nearly didn't!