48 hours exclusion for vomiting

[BiffChipsandKippers]

From school, for a single episode of vomiting- no other symptoms or issues.

Do you keep child at home for the full 48 hours or would you for example take them with you shopping / to eat in a cafe etc?

Just trying to fathom out if we should absolutely stay home, or not. As an adult if I vomited this morning but felt fine for the rest of the day and tomorrow morning I might head out...but obviously my hand hygiene etc is better than a small childs...

YABU - keep them home
YANBU - if they're fine, take them out

DD has a really sensitive gag reflex so if she got a cough while eating she would be sick. No ifs or buts from school she had to stay off. I took her out, she wasn't unwell.

She learnt that if she told them she's been sick they would send her home for 2 days. She did it a lot. Obviously lying is naughty, but pretty impressive skiving for a 6 year old!

The whole point is that you can't know that it's a single episode of vomiting until it isn't. You can't know the cause (viral, overheating, overeating, overexcitement, overactivity). If it is viral, the impact on one individual can be very different to the impact on another. It's really not a hardship to keep them away for 48 hours.

Our school no longer has this rule. If they are well send them in

I'm surprised at that as our guidance from Public Health, the NHS and the LA is that we must exclude for 48hrs from the last instance of vomiting/diarrhoea.

@timegoingtooquickly it was clarified when I picked him up that he was excluded for 48 hours unfortunately.

He really wants to go back too.

Taking them to a cafe seems irresponsible. Even if you don't think it's a bug, you don't know for definite that it's not. And potential stomach bugs around where people are eating and drinking... ugh.

Yes you stick to the 48 hour rule.
As someone else has said you don't really know it's one instance until it isn't.
The staff in the nurseries have family of their own too, as does each child there. I would find it really selfish if a parent brought their child back before the 48 hours, it's like the folk who come into work coughing and sneezing all over the place while bragging about never having had a day off. Meanwhile the immunocompromised among us try to hold our tongue.

I think a lot of people take the piss with it sadly. There is however a big difference between a ‘one and done’ child (gag reflex, over excitement, coughing induced etc) and the properly poorly. I’ve found that when mine have had sickness bugs they aren’t actually capable of getting out and about, don’t have an appetite etc so the 48 hours is often a period of natural recovery. When they’ve had the odd ‘one and done’ they haven’t been Ill at all and have been bouncing off the walls. For those I’d still aim for at least 24 hours clear and take a judgement.

For one episode and otherwise feeling well I’d be taking him out and about and not staying in the house for 2 days even if couldn’t go to school.

I’d take them out. DD vomited at school this morning, I’m pretty sure it was from the heat (it’s happened before during heatwaves if she can’t sleep cos of heat she vomits the next morning), she’s been 100% fine since I picked her up, but can’t go back to school until Thursday. Im taking her to work with me tomorrow.

I'd probably take them out with me on the second day if it was a trip to get essentials from supermarket etc but I wouldn't take them to eat out in a cafe.

@Jinglybangly same. To the point her attendance was affected. We came to a deal with school in the end. Sick and looking ill send home. Sick and in reaction to something send home. Unsure. Send home. If fine overnight send back in.