When do you keep child off from nursery

[Moominfan]

First time mum so not familiar in nursery etiquette. He has a cold slept most of day and is completely off his food. Snotty dribbly cling on is the medical description. I'd rather not take time off work, I have no annual leave and generally can't afford it. Would you send yours in with a cold or is that not the done thing?

I send in with colds and coughs but not with sickness or proper temps.

I too would send in with a cold or mild cough but absolutely not when feverish or diarrhoea/vomiting.

Cough or cold I would send in. Not eating and sleeping all day I wouldn’t.

Thank you. Hopefully after his day of mostly rest he's through worst of it and I won't be getting called for sending him in.

I send mine in with similar. If they’re too ill then they’ll send them home and I’ve often found they perk up at nursery.

The question you need to ask yourself is can he cope with the normal nursery day?
If he needs quiet rest and to stay indoors then keep him home.

I work in nurseries and we try and be as accommodating as possible but would usually send children home if they really are not themselves, typically a combo of the following:

Super sleepy
Refusing food/milk
Raging temperature
Super clingy

Not sure how old your child is but it is really tough to give a poorly child the attention and care they need in a nursery setting where staff are on a ratio of at least 1:3 (assuming baby) or up to 1:13 (preschool).

You could try sending him in dosed up with calpol and let his key person know that he's feeling under the weather, will they administer calpol at nursery?

Send unless there is temp, d&v or Mum instinct not to. Same now DD in school x

If a dollop of calpol in the morning will keep her going all day, she goes.

I've kept her off for: chickenpox, tonsillitis, D&V, a cold so bad she sat under a blanket sneezing and looking sad all day, and a UTI, as she's not allowed to go to nursery in the first 24 hours after a new prescription. I felt guilty calling her in sick for a cold, but she was really miserable.

I've sent her in with coughs and colds and a broken arm, as long as she's feeling well enough in herself to manage, and not likely to spread anything particularly horrible.

Temperature or vomiting they stay home. Coughs and colds they go.

Snotty and infectious describes my DS for most of this past winter, and he has not missed any nursery (where he tops up his infectiousness with new bugs).

However if he was sleepy and miserable and clingy and not eating I wouldn't send him. Sympathy re missing work - it's horrible when they are coming down with something and all you feel is a sense of desperation about missing more work!

The little buggers played me. Wasn't for getting up this morning and chest sounded rattly. Standard snot covered face. He's now tearing round the house.