How ill is too ill for nursery?

[Tyrannynormus]

Two year old DD is my first so I'm new to all this 😂

DD has had a cold pretty much all week now, with a mucus cough that's pretty bad if shes been lying down, occasionally a temp too. I'm pretty sure its not Corona, just a bad cold.

Her dad says send her to nursery shell be fine (he used to be a nursery worker)

AIBU to keep her off this afternoon, shes not due back in till Monday so a few more days go feel better.
No one slept last night as she kept waking up and shes just slept over an hour now and still doesn't want to get out of bed, just wants to lay and snuggle and watch her nursery rhymes on tv. Shes not long started nursery though and I'm worried shell get out of the routine of going, she already gets up set being left

I agree with others... She needs a test!

But to the poster who said a nursery can't administer Calpol.... This isn't true! My dds nursery gave Calpol, before covid, if it brought the temp down the child could stay in but if the temp didn't go down, they called a parent to collect

I'm not determined not to get her a test, but her dad, nursery and 111 have all been pretty unconcerned so it wasnt something I thought was necessary.
We havnt actually been anywhere since she started coughing before I get blamed for the rise in cases admittedly that's more a coincidence than deliberate but we still havnt been anywhere spreading any germs.
Nursery deffinatley gave the advice they did, deffinatley give calpol (it's in the handbook) and no I havnt played down her symptoms at all.

DD seems to have perked up a lot over the day which is good. Do the tests get delivered to you house?

Nursery deffinatley gave the advice they did, deffinatley give calpol (it's in the handbook) and no I havnt played down her symptoms at all.

Is that a Covid handbook, or from before? My DDs nursery always used to give calpol, but won't now during Covid.

I do get what you mean about the night time mucus cough not seeming like anything to worry about. My DD got the same thing the other week (and had picked it up from nursery), and this is a symptom she usually has with normal colds. It's natural to cough at night when the mucus settles, and not really have a cough during the day. All the signs pointed to it being a normal cold but you've just got to respect the blanket rule of not going anywhere with a cough, as it's precautionary.

Ffs your partner is apparently an ex nursery nurse, your child has two of the main covid symptoms but no, send them back to nursery! don’t worry and the other kids and families!
Really worrying if your partner can say that and the nursery also said this i’d be pulling my kids out of here immediately

In normal times I've sent a vomiting child to nursery and before her chicken pox scabbed over , I know this is wrong and bad for others but I was in precarious job situation and needed to keep my job .... now it's a mater of others life and death so get a test ASAP and take it from there
It's tough definitely
Wonderful.

We're abroad, so nobody here would suggest a slight temp and the occasional cough require a Covid test.
I'd keep DS off with a temperature, though, regardless of Covid. He's been in nursery with a slight cold, runny nose, etc. We've been told slight cold symptoms that don't really stop them from playing and running around are no issue and children are fine to attend nursery or school in that case.

If she's lethargic though and hasn't had much sleep, I would keep her home.

She has a temperature = test.
I've just had to do this with DD. She had a temperature. No cough. Nothing else. We had the test yesterday and just got negative result tonight.

She actually has since developed tonsillitis but in the meantime I had to go get her tested or nursery would not have her back for 2 weeks.

I'm really shocked at your nursery and your DH.

I don’t believe you have been completely honest with the nursery. If you have and they’re still allowing her in you should really raise this with them because if I had a child in that nursery I wouldn’t be happy with that policy.
Yes nurseries are allowed to give calpol. It should be prescribed medicine only but in an emergency are allowed to give one dose whilst waiting for a parent to collect.
There’s no way your nursery has a policy that says it’s fine to send them in with a temp and we’ll give them calpol.

[quote Thefaceofboe]**@MindfulBear* A cough is not an automatic reason to get a Covid test*

OP has stated her child’s temp has been up and down... so cough and temperature clearly means a Covid test. The test really isn’t horrific so stop scaremongering.[/quote]
If the test isn't horrific for the child it isn't being done right. And do what's the point?!
I know plenty of drs & nurses who have described how far the swab needs to go. Up both nostrils & down the throat. It's why they would always get colleagues to administer to theirs kids rather than do themselves.

negative tests are coming back where HCPs are concerned it's because the swab didn't get far enough.

@MitziK the NHS guidance for kids is very specific. A cough in a child is not a reason to get a test unless the child has....

a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot, for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours

Yes a temperature on its own would be enough but I wouldn't subject my pre schooler if the temperature was up n down - rather than consistently high. Each to their own but nursery kids often get temperatures. No wonder there are not enough tests available if parents are taking them up every time their child's temperature fluctuates.

@MindfulBear
You are wrong, if a child has a temperature (especially alongside a cough), they need to have a test.

If the test isn't horrific for the child it isn't being done right.
This is pure scaremongering.

OP you’re getting a hard time I feel given you’ve sought advice re: Covid. My DD is nearly two, her temp has been spiking on and off for a couple of weeks and she’s had cold symptoms. She’s had a negative Covid test. We are all pretty sure she’s teething, one day she’s absolutely the fine but not the next. She woke up this morning perky with no temp so I took her in but I’m still worried I’ve done the wrong thing.

My nursery will take in babies with a temp and give them Nurofen, they are obvs being careful with Covid but they don’t just send home straight away they assess if the babies are well enough to be there.

You just have to go with your instinct - do you think she’s well enough to send in?

Such a bizarre post. Nine months of living in a COVID world and your child has these symptoms. You are not getting a test and thinking of sending her to nursery. Come on OP get a grip, get a test, isolate and also look after your poorly child who sounds like the last thing she needs is to go to a childcare setting.

[quote MindfulBear]@MitziK the NHS guidance for kids is very specific. A cough in a child is not a reason to get a test unless the child has....

a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot, for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours

Yes a temperature on its own would be enough but I wouldn't subject my pre schooler if the temperature was up n down - rather than consistently high. Each to their own but nursery kids often get temperatures. No wonder there are not enough tests available if parents are taking them up every time their child's temperature fluctuates.

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Like having a cough all week? Particularly bad when lying down?

That sounds like the NHS definition of coughing a lot, for more than one hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours.

It's a really rubbish time you are in to be honest.

When children start nursery they catch EVERYTHING. My daughter was sick for the best period of a year when she started as her immune system took a battering. Colds, HFM, Sixth Disease, Ear Infections, the lot.

A hint of a temp now (which is more than likely to be related to any of the above) results in being off for 2 weeks or a test and I can't imagine COVID testing a toddler is a fun activity for any parent.

Let's hope this is all over soon hey!!