48 hour d+v policy. What's the point of it?

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If people ignore it/lie and send their dc in anyway?

AIBU to complain bitterly to the school about this, ask them to send out letters again stating the policy and then actually enforce it rather than believe the crap some parents come up with to avoid keeping their dcs at home?

A child in dd2s class was sick yesterday morning, sent home but apparently 'fine' today??? I was told that he didn't have a bug and had just "drunk too much water/eaten too much"

I'm livid. Dd2 has diabetes and a sickness bug would mean her being hospitalised. Why can't people stick to the rules?

Sorry but if I think my child does not have a bug even after vom a few times then that's good enough for me. Unless you have last minute child care readily available nobody is going to take 2 days off for another child.

YANBU. Some people don't give a toss.

And the post above yours proves that so well thepinkOcelot!

"Nobody is going to take two days off for another child"

I would. I would hate to think I had ever played a part in another child getting ill by intentionally sending my own dcs in unwell, especially a child with other health problems.
Yes dcs probably have passed on coughs colds etc etc but I've always done my best to keep them off when ill/keep them in for eg when dd1 had chickenpox.

Dd had reflux/stress vomiting badly in year 7 and was sick every evening for six months. Sorry but she wasnt going to miss six months of school. She didnt have a bug.

Reflux/stress vomiting/allergy/migraine etc can be verified by a doctor that's not the issue here, the parents openly admitted they thought it was a bug at first as their dc was ill yesterday but then they decided it was just food/drink related.

Surely if you are in any doubt at all at any point you would keep them off?

My DCs primary spent a lot of time informing people of the consequences if they sent in children when ill - several children had life limiting illnesses.
However, the 48 hours rule is not enough to insure children are not contagious or shedding virus when they return to school. One of my DDs had a stomach bug a couple of years ago, which kept coming back, after weeks with no symptoms. She could well have being shedding virus the whole time (a friend in the food industry once had to have about 6 months off as testing showed he wasn't safe to return to work).

So yes people shouldn't send their kids back to school until 48 hrs is up. Yes employers should be more reasonable about parents wit sick children, and so on. But the 48 hr rule is not enough to keep your child safe.

I never said that I would intentionally send my unwell child to school
I said if I though my child didn't have dv then I would which reflux would result in vom but not due to a bug.

So, it's okay for you to send your children in with coughs and colds, that once passed on to DS2 have put him in hospital, many many times!

Where would you draw the line?

That's not what I meant, I have not sent the dcs in ill with coughs and colds I meant that I couldn't ever say they had never passed anything on to anybody else and I was assuming the most common thing to pass on would be a cough or cold I perhaps didn't word it correctly.

Whenever they are ill they are off school be it cough, cold, virus etc

I have just lost 2 days pay with a vomitting bug which lasted hours. That is what happens. I could of done with the money but my job involves caring for young children.

Yes I know people who send their kids as soon as they stop throwing up it drives me crazy.

48 hour rule isn't even policy in our upper schools... Or middle schools I think

But anyway, do you keep all your kids off or just the 'sick' one.... The other siblings could be infected and passing it on still

Ds had one loose stool yesterday so is now off nursery for the remainder of the week.
I used to work as a doctor and D&V can spread like wildfire. I can remember one nasty outbreak of rotavirus on the geriatric ward I was working on that killed 2 of our patients.
What really pisses me off is when other parents do not adhere to the policy resulting in my ds being ill and potentially infecting us at home.

Majority of the time they are all ill at the same time, if not due to other circumstances they often all are off as can't leave ill dcs to get well ones from school etc . Dds old pre school had to actually seek confirmation from the LA that she could still get funding as she missed time due to her own illness but also when other dcs were ill and I just couldn't get her there

So the whole family all needs to be kept off as well then

This was never a rule when my children were at school and today's kids seem to bebesick an awful lot more often. You can't stop people taking kids to parks etc within 48hrs so unless you never take them anywhere they are going to pick up germs. They need to in order to build immune systems. I'm sorry your child is Ill hedgehog but you really can't expect everyone else to modify their behaviour to suit you. What is the child going to do when he\she is at work? Adults don't take 2 days off sick when just because they have been sick once.

I totally agree with you OP

Never mind work! Most secondary's don't even enforce this rule....gcse years and all that

Op seems to think people can take leave from work every so often.

My daughter vomits with every tooth that comes through. She was also sick the other week after eating too much and then playing the ipad on an hour-long car journey. There is zero chance I would keep her off because of piggery followed by car sickness.

I'd be careful about keeping well children off when their siblings are ill, because you "can't get well ones from school". You might find you start getting fines because I doubt that is the sort of exceptional circumstances they allow authorised absences for.

Secondaries do enforce the rule!
But I wouldn't keep a child off because their sibling is ill.

Car sickness is obviously not a stomach bug or infectious, and is different from a child being sick in the car as they go down with something.

Admittedly when they used to only recommend 24 hours, my DS went back to school only to relapse in the evening - that was embarrassing (fortunately there were not the number of children with life limiting illnesses around at that time, in his school).

They don't bother having a policy here.... I used the word enforce wrongly.... No school enforces it, it's just a guideline

hedgehog as a Type 1 diabetic I understand and sympathise. It would piss me off too. I get irate being around anyone who's knowingly contagious tbh (not especially due to diabetic reasons.)
However, and please don't find this a criticism as it isn't at all, but is it the potential of something like D&V causing your daughter to become very ill or has it happened / she's currently prone to it? I ask as I used to get bugs a LOT when I was growing up as lived in the Middle East when I was young and it never developed into anything more worrying. I appreciate this isn't the case for everyone who's a Type 1 but I wanted to say that, even if it has happened before it doesn't guarantee it will every time.