Parents! Please don’t send your kid to school with a cough or temperature

[noblegiraffe]

We’ll have to send them home again, and that’s a whole lot of hassle that could have easily been avoided by parents following the government advice.

No, you don’t get to decide whether the cough or a fever is ‘simply a cold’. Neither do we. Just follow the guidelines please.

Apart from anything, it’s freaking their classmates out and we can really do without stressing out the kids even more about this.

Thank you.

You see this is difficult . My daughter has a cough over last 48 hours . She has no other symptoms . She can hold her breath for over 10 seconds without coughing . No one else in the house has this cough .
I think she should still go to school . She gets a cough every year always has .
My son always gets one of the stomach bugs that goes around . Why should she miss out on her education ?

Parents like you disgust me

Who ?

Bedsheets4knickers

My daughter has a cough over last 48 hours . She has no other symptoms . She can hold her breath for over 10 seconds without coughing.

Holding her breath doesn't prove anything. If she has a new continuous cough then she needs to stay off school. It's a shame she'll miss a week of school, but the consequences of her going could be life changing for someone else.

Bedsheets - the guidance is REALLY FUCKING CLEAR

New cough and/or temperature - self isolate for 7 days

Your child has a new cough....SO SHE NEEDS TO ISOLATE!!!

A cough without a fever isn't indicative of Coronavirus though is it? I haven't heard that anywhere.

If your child has a persistent cough just keep them off. If you don't they will get sent home from school. You wanting to maximise her education isn't going to change that. All you're doing by ignoring government advice is making life harder for other people.

Exactly, I’ve got one child in my class who recently has gone into remission from cancer, another with complex medical issues and then several with severe asthma. I dread to think what would happen if one of them was exposed to the virus. We sent two children home on Friday with coughs and high temperatures. We know which children has asthma coughs and won’t be overreacting but please think about others.

Our school only says a new persistent cough with a fever because they are the actual symptoms.
You can’t keep them off for every cold they’d never be in

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

Clearly says to stay at home for 7 days if you have a continuous cough. Or a fever. Doesn't have to be both.

@Bedsheets4knickers - it's really clear, she has a cough so she stays home for 7 days.

Our school only says a new persistent cough with a fever because they are the actual symptoms

Then they're not following the government advice correcty.

DS has had a cold for a week. He is producing an awful lot of snot and mucus (and he's just discovered that snot is fun so is snorting more than ever). He has an occasional cough linked to that cold.

Please stop staring at him when he coughs. Not every cough is Covid-19.

Advice is cough and/or fever. We had an email on Friday saying anyone with a cough will be sent home.

Yeah I'm not convinced it is and believe me we have been watching her like a hawk . The cough is only brought If she gets over excited or runs around too much . It's certainly not continuous. She had bronchitis as a very young baby . She's always had a bad chest at some point over winter . She has no temp what so ever .

@Bedsheets4knickers you just said she had a cough. Keep her home. Sending her in is irresponsible and selfish.

Eggysmom-then eggy doesn’t have a new cough. So send him in.
I have a post-pneumonia asthma cough so understand what you mean about the “looks”!
But any new cough OR a fever- properly self isolate. Please.

Bedsheets - your daughter needs to be isolated for 7 days even if it's just a cough. She will likely be sent away from the school anyway if she has a cough. The advice is pretty clear.

Is this for a new cough? As mine been coughing for months

Yes new cough or fever.

Ds is kind of in this boat, was poorly from a week gone Friday. Cough/cold/sore throat. No fever since Tuesday, school ok with him returning Wed, Gov advice changed Thursday eve but school still accepted him Friday saying it wasn’t new and no longer persistent. The symptoms are absolutely typical for ds following a sore throat but should I have sent him in Friday after advice change? Do I keep him off this week?
Feel I should- but will be contradicting myself from Friday

A girl in my daughters class went to college on Tuesday with a temperature. Her mum had been ill the week before. They weren’t doing anything she couldn’t miss. Think some people are either stupid or totally selfish.

Yes new cough . In the last 48 hours . Though she hasn't coughed in the last few hours . It's more when she 1st wakes up then clears throughout the day .

It’s just advice and guidelines at the moment

Parents can judge, they know there own child best