To keep DS off school incase he feels unwell again?

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My 13yo DS is currently having random d and v episodes, it started when he had a stomach bug a couple of weeks ago, he was sent home on Friday as he vomited but he was fine by the evening, so we sent him in to school today.

DS is currently in isolation (wrongly) and he was in there again today. He told the teacher supervising he had stomach cramps, she told him to see how he was at breaktime but he still wasn't better and had been sick again. She called his head of year and she went to speak to him and told him to get on with the isolation and said she wasn't sending him home again but he was given a sick bowl like the ones you get in a hospital.

He got home and has since been sick again but seems fine now. Just to add, I have spoken to the GP but they have told us to keep a food diary in case of an allergy but none of it seems linked

WIBU to keep him off for a day or 2 in case he starts being unwell again although he's currently fine and has eaten and kept it down?

Have you actually seen vomit ?

Well if he's actually vomited doesn't he have to stay off for 48hours.

Has he definitely been sick? Because his teachers didn't believe him and we are usually quite good at spotting a genuinely poorly child.

I think he has to stay home for 48 hours if he’s vomited. Which is less observed on secondary schools than primary I think but probably still the rule.

My Dd(14) did take herself in from her dad’s house when she shouldn’t have last year but I had no control over that - is what I mean by less observed - you don’t always know it’s happened!

DS is currently in isolation

Do you think it’s linked to this? It sounds like the school think he’s making it up.

I always thought the 48hr rule was if the vomiting was caused by a bug which in this case it isn't as he's been over the bug for a few weeks.

I did see him vomit as I don't mean to be TMI but he threw up all over the floor, he then went to sleep for an hour or 2 and when he woke up he was fine. I don't think it's linked to him being put in isolation, as it happened a few times before then, and I sent him to school the next day and he was fine but then I did think they'd send him home if he was unwell which they did on Friday but didn't today.

Well he's clearly not over the bug

He is over the bug, it was weeks ago. He is also well in himself any other time, still eating as he usually would, doing his club etc.

Sick on the floor is quite unusual at 13 isn't it. It must have come on very suddenly for him not to get to the bathroom. I think you need to go back to the GP.