Son sick this morning

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He vomited a few times between 6-630.

He's fine. Jumping about, downstairs eating breakfast. School rules are that he should stay off school.

AIBU to send him? He's desperate to go and says he's fine. Nothing exciting happening in school today either.
I'm a sahm so no difference if he's at school or not for me.

My daughter was sick at 11pm. She's not going to school. Dd1 never really got vomiting bugs, but DD2 gets a lot. Probably because someone like you keeps sending their kids into school with it

Precisely standandbecounted !! 👏

No of course you shouldn't bloody send him to school no matter how much he's 'jumping around'. Why would you even need to ask this?

My friend works as a dinner lady at a nearby school. A parent sent their kid in because he was 'jumping around and seemed fine now'. He went on to projectile vomit over everyone's school dinners at lunchtime at his table.

Keep him home. The likelihood of him throwing up again is really high. Do the right thing.

I guess it depends if you know he's often sick through excitement/travel etc?

But he was neither excited nor travelling, so I'm not sure why that's relevant.

Please don't send him in...I have kidney disease and a recent bug saw me hospitalised for a week and has added more permanent damage to my kidneys. I work in a professional job and on the surface look very healthy - you never know the effect something so simple can have on someone else's health.

If he's been sick this morning he can't go in today or tomorrow as schools have a 48 hour rule. Do not be selfish and risk infecting his whole class by sending him in.

Rhonda the OP was giving that info because it means there isn't anything going on her DS doesn't want to miss, i.e. he isn't pretending he's okay in order to go in.

He vomited a few times between 6-630.

Vomiting more than once within 30 minutes makes it highly unlikely its excitement AnneElliott

Please don't send him in. You never know if any of the other children or members of staff have any hidden medical issues where a simple sicky bug to most people could mean hospitalisation for them.

Another thing is that it is a right pain in the arse if a child is sick at school and doesn't manage to get to the toilet in time. On top of being ill, the child feels upset and embarrassed, it disrupts lessons, it means that the bug is even more likely to spread to others and it makes the classroom stink for the rest of the day.

Why don't people stick to the 48 hour rule?!! It's not there to make your life difficult, it's there to stop bugs spreading.

I went to soft play earlier this week and now have a vomiting child thanks to selfish idiots who didn't want their precious child to miss out. We shall be going for a walk today as said child is much more rested and bushy tailed today but staying away from shops/soft play until Saturday just in case.

I'm not a SAHM. I have to work. And when people send kids in sick and then mine pick it up, it makes my job incredibly hard, so don't be so bloody selfish

I love a good mumsnet spanking to start off my day.

He's staying off. Glad you lot made me see the light and not let an 11 year rule my normally sensible brain.

In my defence, I am a sleep deprived mother of 6 with a workaholic husband who was egging my son on to just get on with it... he didn't have one day off the whole of primary school blah blah blah.

I will swear an oath never to ask this ridiculous question again.

Feeling very bashful

Good decision.

Hope you have a good day with him and there's no more vomiting.

Keep him home. My dn vomited twice and seemed fine. Luckily my sister, unlike the parents of dn's, kept her off so when she started vomiting again mid afternoon and having awful cramps and diarrhoea she was in the best place. Plus she didn't infect anyone else.

X post glad you are keeping him off

tosend the norovirus has been making the rounds at lots of schools round here, one was even closed last month. Let's hope it isn't a virus and is just something he ate, but it may not be. Crossed fingers!

Of course yabu. It's less than 45 mins between his last puke and you posting

When my brother was in hospital years ago, there was a little boy in another bed who was bouncing up and down so hard he was getting perilously close to the ceiling! He was still sick enough to be in hospital, but when kids aren't actively feeling ill they do tend to leap about ime. It's just how they are, it doesn't mean they're miraculously cured.

Glad you're keeping him at home op

School rules are that he should stay off school.

why are you so special that the rules do not apply to your family?

Let's hope the other 5 children don't get it.

My DD was sick one day last year - in school - so I collected her and was told to keep her off for the next two days.

The following day she felt absolutely fine. Hadn't been sick - so we went out for the day to an swan sanctuary to blow off some cobwebs. The next morning she started throwing up again and ended up off for four days in total.

Just because they feel a bit better after being sick doesn't mean the bug has gone.

I would think YABU to even consider it if it were a very young child, but with an 11 year old child actually I can understand why you may consider sending him (although I still wouldn't).

Oh, FFS. Yes. Keep him off today and tomorrow. Nobody wants a sick bug to start their Easter holidays.

Hope he gets over it soon

My 13 year old was suddenly sick the other night. He hadn't complained at all and ate a full meal, then at 11 pm got up and commented that he couldn't decide if wanted to fart or burp, 10 mins later and it had escalated to throwing up. After he was done he said he felt fine and started to read. I did end up keeping him off for 2 days despite not being particularly unwell, he had only been having a minor dodgy tummy and headache. Dp and me had been suffering the same too so I guess it's one of those things where we weren't bad but still contagious.