AIBU to wonder what you would keep your child home with

[Waytoofar]

Totally prepared to be told I am being completely unreasonable but my question is what Illnesses would you keep your child home from nursery or school. I’m talking things like common cold, flu, chest infection etc.
A child in my DD’s nursery has been going in with a chest infection and my AIBU is to wonder if he should really be at home. 3 other children in the class have since been off with a chest infection one who has asthma. The child doesn’t have siblings and his mother is a SAHM so isn’t relying on nursery to go to work. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Basically if ds is feeling poorly I keep him home. If he has upset tummy I keep him home. And if he tests positive for covid I'd keep him home.
Mild snotty nose etc, he goes to school.

Not at all. I’m in the same boat. Reason I mentioned it is that of a parent has to work they don’t always have a choice but to send the child in.

I'm a sahm, I'd keep DD home if she was obviously unwell, she's just been off for a week with a high temperature for example, shes been back since but still had a bad cough which will probably last for weeks as she has asthma. Unfortunately it's the time of year for it.
Chest infections aren't generally very contagious so it's probably unlikely that they've caught it from that child.

Stay home with fever, diarrhoea and anything they feel really dreadful with.

Agree with pp - D&V, temperature or a specified exclusion illness e.g. chickenpox

Coughs go on for ages so they have to go back in at some point! FWIW I've taken my DC to the GP plenty of times between them to have their chests listened to because they sounded so awful. Only once did the GP diagnose a chest infection.

Based on the class group chat. Parents have said their children have got chest infections so aren’t in. Or such a shame x had to miss x event at nursery because of his chest infection etc.

And there it is again. Flu can be asymptomatic or can mean the person can't get out of bed - and everything in between. There is no cookie cutter template for 'real' flu.

As regards keeping my children off school, I don't send them in if they have a really bad bark that's impairing their ability to function and making them miserable. But if it's an intermittent cough, yes, they do go in because otherwise my eldest would be out more than in, as he has a cough all the fecking time (hay fever, allergies). If they're vomiting etc, then definitely they stay off until they've been well for 48 hours,

I only keep them home if they have fever or D&V... or Covid.

@StapFooterin

Flu can be asymptomatic or can mean the person can't get out of bed - and everything in between. There is no cookie cutter template for 'real' flu

If anything is asymptomatic you don't know you have it and are therefore merrily getting on with things.

By 'real' flu I mean the type of flu that has you in your bed.

Not asymptomatic, not it's a bad cold that many call flu, not man flu. Real flu.

Enjoy your cookie.

Sickness and other end or if she's unhappy/not herself. Colds she goes in if she's happy. She's very rarely been unwell enough to keep home. Once with a bad cold where she was just tired and once when we got Norovirus.

How do you know it’s an infection though? Are you their GP? Mine are both asthmatic with cough-type asthma and before it was diagnosed one of them was off nursery for about three weeks in every four due to people fearing covid. Even now, parents give me Looks at dropoff until I hand over the inhalers and spacers.
Diarrhoea and vomiting, or temperature, or green snot, or ear infection I keep them home. Off food and listless, also home.

@MajorCarolDanvers and you enjoy the point whizzing past your little brain.