DS sick once in the night, feels fine. Would you send him into school?

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DS (6) was sick once in the night then fine, no fever...back to normal. Would you send him into school or keep off for 48 hours?

Don't send him. You don't know it isn't a bug. One of mine had a bug where she threw up only at about midnight for four nights

Don't be that arsehole parent. And apart from anything else, your child will have had a broken night's sleep.

Uh don't. It's inconvenient to you to have him off? What about how inconvenient it is for the other three families who might catch it tomorrow. Or the school if next vomit is in assembly. Tummy bugs don't usually come with fevers or anything. Next symptom is when he throws up in the classroom.

Don't send him. Mine threw up last night and appears absolutely fine but I wouldnt take the risk. And we are both working full time so having to take a half day each to cover it.

To be fair you are expected to call and let them know. It's not up to school to make assumptions.

I don't expect them to be mind readers but since reception called and asked me to collect her I thought it would be on record.(or that they would remember if same person was on duty)
My friend works in a school and if they send a child home one day (because child was sick at school) and the parent brings them the next day they request the parent takes them home. Also at previous school if I called one day and said my child was sick they would not chase the next day as they knew 48 hours hadn't passed.

No I wouldn’t, if he wasn’t sick today again today and otherwise fine I’d send him tomorrow though, if he was I’d keep him off. Our school is also 24 hours rather than 48

No. My son was sick Monday morning, once. And was perfectly fine afterwards. But I cancelled everything for the next 48 hours (he's home educated so no school, but plenty of other meets/classes)

It doesn't seem to have been a big because (fingers crossed) the rest of us have been fine, but you just never know.

The last time he was sick once the rest of us ended up catching it and far worse.

So what have you decided to do, OP?

@TuckMyWin Is he likely to mention he was sick?

You! People like you are why sickness bugs take down half of the class

No. Schools are rubbish at sending unwell children home generally and I’d want to make sure it wasn’t the start of a sickness bug or virus. I’m a SAHM so work pressure doesn’t come into it at all though.

I do keep quite strictly to the 48hour rule too, although I know others don’t! People seem to do 24hours at most. It’s frustrating.

I don't expect them to be mind readers but since reception called and asked me to collect her I thought it would be on record

Yes they would have known your child went home unwell. Irrespective of that it is down to you to let school know your child will not be in. School cannot make assumptions and mark a child absent/unwell. Parental responsibility 100%

@DuchessMustard oh come on. A child being sick once in the night does not always equal a sickness bug. Absolutely it might do, and of course in those circumstances (ie. the child appearing at all ill) you shouldn't send in. But sometimes they cough too hard, sometimes it's reflux, maybe they ate something silly right before bed.

I’m also going through cancer treatment and I wouldn’t be fussed if a kid at nursery had been sick once in the night and sent in.

Kids are germ factories, the problem with having stupid cancer and a toddler! If a kid was visibly unwell with temp/snotty nose/being sick etc then I’d be pissed off. But a well child with no more incidents of vomiting wouldn’t worry me at all.

A child being sick once in the night does not always equal a sickness bug.
But it can and queasiness doesn't necessarily hit again immediately. Hence 48 hour policies to check they're really better/it really wasn't a bug. There's no way of telling except to wait. If they were sick again at 8am you would not be surprised, why so sure they won't be sick again at 9am?

Sickness bug is by far the likeliest explanation. People seeking other explanations (I have family members who do this) just don’t want to comply with the, sensible, 48 hour rule. Due to inconvenience etc.

@TuckMyWin DuchessMustard oh come on. A child being sick once in the night does not always equal a sickness bug. Absolutely it might do, and of course in those circumstances (ie. the child appearing at all ill) you shouldn't send in. But sometimes they cough too hard, sometimes it's reflux, maybe they ate something silly right before bed.

You have no idea why they were sick. That is why we have the rule.

The number of times I've heard people say "oh it's just because he was running around/ate too much" and then the whole family comes down with vomiting bug.

Utterly, utterly selfish, disgusting & wrong. The arrogance & selfishness is incredible

@MustardScreams i'm very sorry about your illness, but you are wrong to think that parents can & should make this judgement. I have two kids & have often known them to throw up while seeming otherwise OK. The bug then makes it way through the rest of the family.

Unless you have a microbiology lab at home you have no way of knowing.

You absolutely SHOULD mind if someone sends their child to nursery a few hours after vomiting.

I wish you a speedy recovery.

@MustardScreams. The dr must of warned you like me. My dr was so incredibly strict. One vomit. Go to A and E. colds are fine. But sickness? My dr would go nuts if I was around someone who has been sick.

No, because whatever made him sick might start coming out the other end during the day! I once sent one of my dc into school after a single bout of vomiting in the night, and at lunchtime the poor child was caught short. Very embarrassing all round.

@DuchessMustard you are right! I haven’t started chemo yet, so I’m still in the ‘I’m going to pretend I don’t have cancer!’ mindset. Probably not the most sensible.

I was very nervous of germs after my lumpectomy and still managed to get an infection, so I do think I need to stop being so blasé about the whole thing really.

No school!

Please do not send your child to school.

@MustardScreams and/or for you. Hope it goes as well as it can.

No I wouldn't if you don't know what caused it. My youngest was sick triggered by a coughing fit in her sleep, I kept her 9ff school although she was fine. I wasn't sure if the cough was a virus starting etc.

My eldest on the other hand, spent so much time off school. She had gastritis and it would trigger vomiting and school refused to let her in (and then had the audacity to threaten court for failing to send a child to school... 🙈)

Thanks everyone. Kept off school as didn't want to risk it!

Please don't send him. A mother of a child my daughter is at a childminder with had sent her son in as normal after he had been sick the night before (she stupidly posted it on social media and I know someone who knows her and saw it) She didn't tell the childminder (who has a 48 he sickness rule) and now my daughter has the sickness bug too. We have a family member who is terminally ill and with no immune system so now we can't see her at all until we are all clear. It's extremely frustrating. Kids catch things and sometimes you can't prevent but sending them knowingly is really selfish