To keep DD home to avoid D&V bug

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Loads of messages on year 1 class WhatsApp saying children have been ill with a very bad D&V virus over the weekend. At least half of the class have it.

My DD is still very run down after 2 weeks of flu A - this was no small flu, fever for a week, coughing, vomiting (but not like a d&v bug), stomach pain, really lethargic for days. One DD was so unwell she needed to be monitored overnight in A&E due to dehydration and poor oxygen absorption.

It's Sunday night and the school have been informed about the number of kids down with the bug but surely they will have no time to clean the classroom or even notify and close the class to break the cycle (if that's something they do?)

I am really worried about how poorly my girls would be if they caught this bug while still weak from flu a.

Wibu to keep my daughter home from school?

Not getting sick again immediately will absolutely help their immune systems rebuild. Perhaps you should learn a little about how immune systems actually work before posting twaddle?

I understand why you are feeling worried. However they have missed a lot of school already and another week is significant. There will be a lot of key phonics and maths learning going on in y1 at the moment.

If you do keep dc off I’d be trying to find out what learning they have already missed & is planned for this week and catching them up on that as much as possible.

Keep her home. She’s been very ill, she needs to recover.
Do plenty of reading with her. Honestly, in the whole grand scheme of things, a week off in year 1 will not cause her any harm.

Call in sick with post viral fatigue?

It's reasonable to keep her off because she's still ill.
Don't phrase it as "might catch the D&V."

DS1 was off ill one day last week. He'd been run-down for a couple of weeks (DS2 had been off ill 3 days in that time), came down for breakfast feeling hot and looking broken, ate a bit and went back to bed for 90 mins. That seemed to be enough to reset him, but an easy duvet day to regain some energy (rather than hitting autistic burnout) will give him a better week of learning this week and save the usual crash and burn of being ill over the school holiday and going back to school barely recovered to restart the cycle of fatigue.

It might already be in her system, a lot of the class are now off, I am in the send them in category but my kids are pretty robust.
This happened at our school right after Christmas and some classes went down to half a class and lots of staff were off, but we are pretty resilient and managed to avoid it.
Just because something is going around doesn't mean you will necessarily pick it up, and you can't take time off every time something like this happens.

Year 1, of course I would. A rundown child won't learn anyway.

With everything you need to give your head a shake and just check that your reasons are good (and that it isn't healthy anxiety creeping in) but I would do the same from what you described.

I don't subscribe to the idea of fines and school knowing best in every situation.

Keep her home
It's Y1, not Y11
The flu this year has been evil..trust your instinct

Thanks all. I'm keeping them off today as frankly they are still ill anyway and I can also see if school message to say they're closing for a deep clean/cycle break or similar. I imagine there will be other classes in the same situation - there was a whole school event last week too.

Good idea about asking school about catching up. I don't really want to give more work to teachers as it's probably very stressful with various kids ill. But might see if they can suggest an online resource if they do have a moment. If my daughter is too ill this week after all (which seems fairly likely) she can always do some in the holidays.

I think yr1 daughter could be coming down with it anyway... She was so unlike herself this weekend, very very stroppy and unhappy, I put it down to still being ill but it could be the brewing. I really hope not.

I also have really bad stomach pains myself which is partly why I've been up since silly o'clock... but trying to ignore that...!!! I'm self employed so no chance of me not working (although thankfully remote)

Yes this- keep them home op

I'm normally in the "send them in" camp, but I think if she's already been so ill and not properly recovered then in this case I would say, keep her home.

Keep them off. So few people bother to follow the 48 rule these days, at least once the environment has been cleared for a week there’s a lower chance of continued spread.

I'd keep them off because they don't sound well enough to cope with a whole day at school anyway as they're still recovering from flu.
In my old school, we sometimes closed individual classes/year groups when they were ravaged by bugs.
So yeah, I'd keep them off and hopefully they'll be stronger for half term.

I might see if I can get maths and phonics workbooks online just in case/for catching up. DD got full marks on her recent maths test and teacher says she is ahead so no further extension work they could give her, so I don't think she'll have fallen behind there much. Phonics I do at home with her anyway but could get an extra book.

I don't think you are unreasonable to keep them off for this week in the circumstances. Be prepared that school will be on your case over attendance next term though.
In my experience GPs won't issue certificates or evidence of your child being ill and they are really busy at the moment with so many bugs going around so you probably won't get any joy there.

I think I'll leave GP for now as I already have test results for flu if they query recent sickness, and I will take them to GP if need be if they get norovirus. DD is beside herself this morning, really emotional and tired and feels ill but can't explain exactly what's up so possibly haven't avoided it. Really really do not want this again next term!!!!

Fingers crossed the moodiness is just down to feeling wiped out from the Flu! I think she would already be vomiting by now if she'd picked up noro on Friday. My DC are always really grumpy after an illness. I think they feel wiped out and rather than being quiet and resting like we would they deal with it by crying/moaning/taking it out on their parents.
Sounds like she would be struggling to be at school now and is still in recovery mode. Hopefully she will be back on form for next half of the term and more able to fight off new bugs. I hate winter!

Okay that's good to know. Yes it's been a pretty awful few weeks and I guess now she's feeling well enough to awake but still ill she's just extremely grumpy!

Noro is normally a max 48 hour incubation period so if she's not throwing up now, I'd assume she didn't catch it at school last week. So hopefully that's a good sign and she can get properly better this week!

YANBU at all and I have done this more than once!

I am not really sure why the post as you were always going to keep them off anyway.

Def best at home for a few days anyway. Poor thing. My 19 year old ds had flu in January and I’ve never seen him so ill.
He needed tablets to stop the vomiting and he has lost so much weight. It was near impossible to keep his temperature down and he had an awful headache.
That was a few weeks ago and he’s still not himself. He’s falling asleep when he sits down in the evening.

I'm definitely in the keep them home camp. I'd lead with them still being unwell from the flu and give them time to rest up and recover. Sorry it's been such a rough few weeks