to call in sick for suspected strep throat?

[FaithLoveandHope]

I started getting cold like symptoms last week and called in sick on Friday as I felt so weak, my head was extremely fuzzy and I just generally felt rough. Over the weekend I've developed a really bad cough and I've been up all night coughing. My throat and chest are really sore and I keep going hot and cold, I think I may have strep throat or something. WIBU to call in sick again? I feel so bad just thinking about it, like I'm letting people down as there are a few people on holiday this week so I really need to be in work.

Depends on your profession? Sorry you're poorly

Well, are you fit to work? Doesn't sound like it.

If you're sick you call in sick

If you are not well, don't go in. It's not your problem to resource your department during the holidays (unless it is!), and struggling through work is not going to help you recover.

I've had strep throat and it was the worst I've ever felt

Yanbu to feel too ill to work and therefore right g in sick. No one at work is going to want an infectious person next to them.

You pr9bably will want to see a doctor as it will need antibiotics.

If I worked with you I'd send you home.

Get in to bed and stay there.

Don't go in. No likes catching the germs of the martyr who soldiers on in to work.

Get some rest.

I wouldn't go in if I had your symptoms and no one wants the germs coughed and breathed over them.

Stay in bed, plenty of warm drinks and get well soon.

Do we call it that here now?

If I took a call citing 'strep throat' as a reason for not coming in, it would cross my mind that it sounded like an excuse pinched from an American film. Am I behind the times?

Cough, cold etc = work

Temperature = stay home

Get some sleep

Boss said I should come in because there are so many people off :( currently sat on the settee under a blanket with a long sleeved t shirt and fleece and I'm still shivering.

just I don't know - what would you call it?

Throat infection and a fever?

It was just a thought.

You need to call in sick love. And see a gp

Your boss is an arse. It doesn't work like that. Sick leave determined by business demands FFS.

Depends on what you do as a job really. If you work in an office take some paracetamol and go in.

What job is it that you do?

It's tonsillitis isn't it?

Boss shouldn't have let so many people have holiday at once if one person being ill is going to cause problems.

If you're sick, you're sick. Stay home and rest! I used to drag myself to work when I was ill because my old company had a really strict sickness policy - it wasn't worth it!

If it was tonsillitis she'd be telling us all about her tonsils.

None of us can tell you whether to call in sick but hope you feel better soon . If it is true step throat, you have my sympathy. I've had it once and was so poorly that we had to get additional childcare. I had two weeks off work and infected most of the adults in my immediate family (not the children somehow thank goodness). Was a miserable experience for all.

It probably isn't strep throat but it sounds like you're not well so not unreasonable to call in sick. I'd just do it without putting a name to it. Hope you feel better soon

Boss said I should come in because there are so many people off

Oh yeah thats a really good idea - you'll infect people and then there will be even more people off!! What a nob!! It sounds like you are really unwell and should be tucked up at home. Is there anything you can do remotely from your sofa?

It doesn't really matter what job the OP does, she's ill.

Go to Dr my DH ended up in icu for 6weeks with sepsis after having strep throat and dragging himself into work without treatment for several days.

Yes it is strep throat the infection is caused by the streptococcus bacteria. Tonsillitis is inflamation of the tonsils caused by a virus