To ask would you send a child into school if their twin had a bug?

[rosegold36]

If one of your twins is sick (suspected bug) would you send the other twin into nursery too or would you keep both at home in case the other was contagious? Aibu to send the child who isn't sick into school? Thanks

They aren’t contagious until they start showing symptoms - it’s the contagious sick and diarrhoea particles that make people unwell - so if they haven’t got that then there is nothing to pass on 🤷‍♀️ send them in and if they start being unwell in school then collect them - you don’t keep a child off just because someone else in the house has a bug 🙄

What do you mean "bug"?
Sickness?

It’s no different to a non twin sibling.
Would you keep a sibling off school because their DB/DS was ill ? No.

Yanbu

It depends on the age of the kids for me. School age I’d send the well one in so they didn’t miss any work and weren’t sitting at home bored but I’d take their temp and let them know to tell the teacher if they feel ill.

Nursery age I’d just keep them home together as they pass it so quickly and I’d want to keep an eye to see if they were under the weather.

I usually try to send in my non-poorly twin. Once one twin had a cough (it wasn’t even a real cough, it was straight after eating a dry oat cake) and nursery made me take both of them home.

At nursery age I kept both of ours off. Which was always the right decision, because the other twin would ALWAYS get sick. They were stuck to each other like glue.

In school, no. Mine are 15 now though and secondary school still asked us if we wanted to keep twin 2 off too when twin 1 had to self isolate (we didn’t).

Do they share a room? If it was an older sibling, I'd probably answer differently but I wouldn't send your other twin in. Even if it's just for today to see if your other child catches it. I read on the NHS website recently that with some sickness bugs, you can be infectious before symptoms start. I wouldn't feel right that I might be, almost knowingly, sending my child in to pass something on. Having just been through an awful sickness bug with my DD (and I may be biased cause I know the other parent didn't follow the 48hr rule) I wouldn't put anyone else at risk of catching one. Good luck. I hate sickness bugs.