School forgot to give medication

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Daughter comes home from school and says that they forgot to give her her dose of antibiotics today at school.

When dad collected the teacher said oh I'm sorry, and turned to my daughter and said 'Did you remind any of the staff today to give it to you?'

Now I'm a pretty chill mum, and whilst not the end of the world as she's had the second dose when she got home, It's kind of not the point.

AIBU for being annoyed they turned the blame to my child asking if she reminded them (7 yo)?!

I'm inclined to just leave it but part of me wonders if that had been a diabetes medication for example that had been forgotten it might have been different outcome.

WWYD?

Antibiotics can be given before school, straight after and bedtime. I wouldn't be worrying about this.

How many doses does she need a day that she has to have one at school? Can you change the times of giving them?

4 a day x

She doesnt need a dose at school then. You need to look at the timings she is getting the doses.

YABVU to compare an antiobiotic to insulin. Give your child the médecine at home.

There’s a difference between medication for diabetes, which happens daily and antibiotics which are usually less regular.

I think a seven year old is capable of reminding a member of staff that she needs a dose. Presumably at around lunchtime, which is always busy.

I think you are missing the point, regardless of the medicine can be given at home the point is it was forgotten and the blame passes to my daughter for not remembering to tell them.

Im not missing the point. This is your responsibility. Antibiotics should be given at home. One dose right before school means there is no need for a dose at school.

Guessing you're not a teacher?

Do you have any idea what a day in school is like. Yabu.

Whose job do you think it is to remember and administer medicine to your dc at school? Is there a nurse? Does the nurse come and find dc to give them medicine? Or is it the receptionist? In which case, is your dc supposed to go to reception or do they come to collect? Or is it the teacher’s job to administer medicine (do they have a fridge to store it)? What happened when the class are with a different teacher? What is the teacher is teaching?

I would expect my 7 year old to be able to remind the teacher. Also you are being very unreasonable to compare it to diabetetic medication that a child could die without. As pp have stated there are specific rules in place for chronic medication. At your school does administration of the antibiotic fall to the class teacher, or a school nurse, administrative staff , head teacher? I'd make sure you know this and focus on a plan to make sure it doesn't happen again.

They shouldn't have forgotten but they did forget. I think I'd want to know what the system should be and how they are going to make sure it doesn't happen again.

It's not diabetes medication so there is no point in wondering what would have happened if it were.

The best system in my opinion is parents liaise with office staff and it's the office staff that give the medication.

I think it is unreasonable for teachers to be giving children medicine at school when they are are already overloaded. It isn't a surpirse they might forget. Teaching staff are given special training for dealing with children with diabetes and so calculating and giving insulin is built into the day because it has to be every day.
I don't think its passing the blame to ask a child to try and remember.

I think my post has been miss read,
I was trying to state that if his medication has been forgotten like today through what ever system is in place in the school meaning it got missed, then it would have been a lot worse if this had happened to a diabetic medication.

No idea what your daughter's school is like, but 15 years ago the school I worked in had a person who was responsible for the medical room and administration of medicine. That post has long gone and it tends to fall to the office staff, along with all the other jobs that TAs and CAs used to do, but now there are very few TAs or CAs.

So whilst I agree with you in principle, having been one of those office staff expected to pick up the slack, with the best will in the world it's not easy. Especially when said child has forgotten and gone out to the playground and you can't leave the office unattended and there are no TAs or CAs available to find said child.

Our primary school was also the office staff as they were first aiders and kept the medicine locked away. They set reminders on the customer and would go and collect the child.

No harm done on this occasion. I used to always ask for antibiotics to be 3 X a day so we could give before schools after school and at bedtime.

But with regular medication the child themselves gets into the routine of going to the office and the office staff are in a routine. It is the one-offs that are more likely to cause an issue.

You are completely misunderstanding the administering of medicine like insulin. A child with diabetes will have an EHCP and staff will be fully trained to manage and administer it, it’s absolutely nothing like giving antibiotics.

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Yes but the principle is the same, if this has been missed (which isn't the end of the world) it means something like diabetic medication could have been missed and that's the point I'm trying to make.

Safeguards are in place for regular diabetic medication.

It absolutely is not the same.

it would have been a lot worse if this had happened to a diabetic medication.

But that's not what happened. I had to go on a course when I had a diabetic child in my class. There was a health care plan and it was a part of our day.

It's not the same as a short course of medication.

Also, children who have anaphylaxis, diabetes etc have some responsibility for themselves. Not eating a random cupcake when it's someone's birthday or whatever because it's a part of their whole life. They are used to it.

I think my post has been miss read,

I haven't misread it. I just think you are wrong.