to ask my school if I should quarantine myself for 48 hours after the symptoms of norovirus have gone.

[TWINSETinapeartree]

I don't really mean unreasonable but will I look like a skiving ninny, especially as I was ill the last week of last term.

I have caught it off dd and felt ill all yesterday, last night I did some quite scary projectile vomiting. I now have stomach pain, diorhea and feel absolutley wiped out.

When dd had it we were told to keep her in for 48 hours after the symptoms stop. Her school also sent a letter home saying the same thing.

I have just emailed work to ask if I should do the same, are they going to think she is taking the piss here, the thought of staying home for 2 days when I feel fine feels very uncomfortable.

I am also off work with diarrhoea and vomiting last episode yesterday at 1pm when I fainted in the bathroom.

I have emailed work this morning to hand over a few things but that is easy compared to talking to people face to face at least if you are typing you know that you can stop and rush to the loo if you need to. Not easy to do that at work!!!

Ridiculous to say that you can be too unwell to type - I am lying in bed. It takes my mind off my bowels!

snoringnightmare you sound like a nightmare suggesting that she should go to work. How can typing a couple of sentences even be compared to doing a full day's work? I am a teacher and believe me, feeling ill, never mind with the novovirus, is an absolute nightmare as you are on your feet all day with barely any break and children demanding your full attention -no time for coffee breaks.

You should definitely not go into work. I am sure that the other teachers won't want to be infected and the parents won't want you near the children.
Hope you feel better.

Of course, you can use a computer when you've got norovirus. It's hardly full-blown flu - is it? I usually just feel a bit lathargic in between bathroom trips

ahh but clean your PC keyboard regularly when you have norovirus.the airborne droplets can survive houurs on pc,phone handset etc

norovirus can be really debilitating,with dehydration,and severe GI pain

I think the 48hr things is partly because you can't always tell if it is over iyswim.

I think you should stay at home, feel better soon pet xx

OOO def do not go into work - regardless of who yuo work with and for you should stay of for 48 hrs from the last episode - if you dont there would be another epidemic at your place of work. If my dd came home with it because her teacher had gone in whilst cotagious i would be fuming. It is a social responsibility to stay away. Also notmuch help to the school when all teachers are off and kids have gone home and infected more vunerable people eg elderly, pregnant and young children. I always worry i would be responsible for someones death - dramatic i know but possible. Enjoy your rest when your feeling less yuck.

I have had an email back saying they do not operate the 48 hour quarantine and I am to come back when I feel well. I feel like I am in a really awkward position now.

Snoring I am sorry that I have made you angry and a bit shocked tbh that you would search my posts looking for evidence of my swinging the lead. I was on here late last night as I was writing reports, one of the reasons I was doing that until so late was because I felt generally unwell and could not concentrate. I also felt very sick, and i think that if you search my posts, which you have done, there will be references to the fact I was not feeling right.
Whenever you are ill there is a time when you feel a bit odd but carry on, and then a moment when all hell breaks loose. For me that was abou 4 this morning.

I am not sat in my study fully dressed at the main computer, I am lying in bed with my laptop next to a sick bucket and a towel to catch flying liquid {blush] There is a huge difference between logging onto a website for a few minutes and driving across rural Dorset and teaching 150 kids quite some distance from the nearest toilet.

I was on the computer anyway as I had just emailed my work into school even though it was the last thing I felt like doing. If I had not had to email my work in I would probably have not posted on here.

I have not been on here all day today, I have discovered that if I lie still with my eyes shut in a silent room I feel marginally better. If I was skiving as a complete mumsnet addict I would have been on here all day.

You are right I did post this in AIBU, perhaps a further sign that I was not right ! But usually if I disagree with someone and am then shown to be totally wrong I apologise.

Anyway despite my musmnet addiction looking at this screen is making my feel sick so I will pop off again. Thanks for everyones advice

Sorry but, just got a strong urge to pop onto your thread to say, you DO NOT have to justify yourself or your actions to anyone Twinset.

Also, if people did the sensible thing and stayed home when they were ill, far less people would be affected by it in the long run. Snuggle down and stay home. I hope you feel better soon

As far as I'm concerned there is no way you should be going into school if you are ill! Speaking as a parent, I wouldn't be very pleased if my sons teacher had this virus and was in school and if I found out that she was there because the HT said she had to be, then he would be recieving the sharp end of my tongue!

Poor Twinset! Teachers get ill too!

Twinset, as TimeForMe says, you don't need to justify your actions. You are ill and you need to rest.

Take care and hope you feel lots better soon.

they 'don't operate the 24 hour rule' . Maybe your school should go on the dailymail website and look at the predictions for the waves of sickness about to hit schools.

The last thing your school needs is you in passing it round.

Hope you feel better soon

I dont understand why they dont follow the 48 hour rule ? So can children go in hours after being sick too, I wouldnt want to teach there ! Stay off and dont feel guilty, you are ILL !

Twinset, ignore them, just return 48 hours after you feel well again. It's that or there'll be dozens of sick kids and staff, then they'll really have something to complain about.

Twinset, no please keep your projectile vomming to yourself. Please.

To explain my anger a little is the fact that until recently I used to manage a team of 12 people and had to be very nice, very fair and very believing of a certain team member who constantly took Friday and/or Monday off ill. Every other week or so. Honestly you wouldn't get your hat on at the cheek of it. Anyway, I'm rambling. Just to let you know this was not personal just think you pushed my "irate-ometer" this morning.

You most certainly shouldn't go back to work until you are fully better regardless of any "48 rule" in place or not.

I apologise if I upset you. BUT in my defence you put this in AIBU!

No problems, I should not have posted it on AIBU. I wanted to know if I was BU about taking two days off when I felt ill it never entered my head someone would say I was not ill in the first place. But you cant censor or control how people respond.

Like lots of people I felt guilt at being off sick so you pushed my irate monitor.

I hope I have stopped being sick now so you are safe.

Scottish mummy I am genuinley thinking I may have caught it from the laptop.
DD was ill the other night and we bleached the whole house as I did not want to be ill at the start of a term. DD was playing on my laptop though and I did not clean that, she has also been on the phone.

oh dearie me!yes spreads from contact on door handles,telephones etc.really horrid.what a shame for you

48 hours from the last vomit/diarrhoea in our school for pupils and staff.

YAB completely reasonable!

The only reason noro is so prevalent is that people go back to work/school before they are completely over it. You would be doing your colleagues a favour by staying at home. I would not thank anyone for passing it on to me!!

me neither dottoressa have been told to not get too clise to people when I return