Come on admit it - how many of you break the 48 hour rule for sickness / diarrhoea?

[Santaclaustrophobia]

Wondering about this rule that schools / nursery have.

If your child vomits once or has a few 'dodgy' poos (possibly due to something unrelated to illness) and is otherwise ok and showing no other signs of illness - would you just use your judgement and send your child in anyway?

Or do you always keep your child off for 2 days after a vomiting / diarrhoea episode?

You know when it is a bug - there is no mistaking it so definitely follow the 48 hour rule in those instances and I get annoyed with others that don't.

There are however sometimes when it was borderline. For example, DS was off school with a temperature a few weeks back. Nothing else wrong. I needed to go out, his temp was under control at that point due to medicine, he wanted to go. However as soon as he got back he was sick. Probably he shouldn't have done the car journey (short journey but many speed humps and twists). I did keep him off the next day even though his temp was back to normal because although I don't think he had a D&V bug he had been unwell. It was a Friday so don't know for sure whether I would have followed the 48 hour rule as he was as right as rain.

DS1 was sick after spending too long on a swing once. I think it is safe to forget the rule in such circumstances but if you don't know the cause then don't send them.

It's pretty easy to tell if it's a bug or another cause. My dc's have hardly ever had d&v, can count it one hand between them I think and I can't remember the last time.
DS has allergies and can throw up if he eats the wrong thing, I would not wait 48 hours to send him to school after that. He also has febrile convulsions if he has hda gastric flu type bug.

Both mine would be fairly ill if they did have d&v so they wouldn't be fit to go to school anyway, they always end up being off for about a week anyway.
Saying that both dcs actually do seem to have cast iron stomachs and even when sickness bugs are going round the school they seem to avoid them.

Only read the OP but DS gets car sick - he;s fine in the morning, gets a bit green in the car is sick, then runs into nursery and scoffs a load of breakfast and is fine.
He was sick on the way to nursery on Friday, we still went. I did tell them and they were fine with that. Alsom he was sick when he was tiny after a coughing fit while eating. They told me but didn't ask me to take him home.

Both DD's nursery and Ds's school have a 24 hour policy and we stick to it.

My daughter has diabetes so a bug could put her in hospital - she has never had one as yet (and is 9), her 7 year old sister has had one once.

I would never ever break the rule and send a child back early and I too think those who do are wankers.

I have just had this very argument with dh on the phone. I am livid with him at the moment so need to calm down and take it out on here instead!

Ds was projectile vomiting from 1am yesterday morning and then every half hour until about 5am when it stopped. He loves those probiotic drinks, so stupidly and against my better judgement gave him one in the afternoon, cue throwing it all back up about 1/2 later. By this time it is 2pm.

He had a few chips and water for tea then went to bed. Everything has stayed down so far today, just eating lunch now.

Dh reckons he is well enough to go back tomorrow but I say because he last puked at 2pm yesterday, 48hr later is 2pm tomorrow. Dh thinks I am being daft, he says it is only because we gave him the probiotic drink that he puked it and really his last puke time was 5am yesterday morning so therefore he can go back to school tomorrow. I have already told school I am waiting until Wednesday and my work. I am so angry with dh right now, he doesn't seem to be bothered about passing it on, it's his attitude and others like him that probably caused poor ds to have it in the first place. Oh and he sees nothing wrong with taking dc out of school during term time too. Grrrrrr I could throw something right now.

Remember, once your immunity kicks in (after a few bouts of D & V)you can have a bug with very few symptoms.

So, your child could vomit once and have a bit of a fever, but still end up infecting someone with full blown norovirus.

I always stick to the 24/48 hour rule.

My sister's entire Christmas was just ruined by some selfish sod neighbour who insisted she pop over for a drink, even though he was just getting over norovirus. (not having children, she was clueless as to how infectious it is)

Our nursery says 48 hours for vomiting but tbh I've broken that rule - I have to go to work :-( If he had an actual bug I'd keep him home but occasionally randomly throwing up as kids do with no diarrhoea and then waking up fine and perky and eating brekkie..... sorry but you're going in!

I always keep them off for 48hrs.
Ds is at a special school and some of the children could die if they caught what would seem a minor bug to us. Same with dd although I do get pissed off when hearing in the playground from other parents that x has been up all night puking but still send them in only to get sent home later after infecting the class. Nice.