Disease school

[willoughboobs]

don't know wether or not I'm writing in the right section or not but i need some advice please.

my dd is in foundation 2 and since she started in f1 she has been ill constantly just in the past few weeks she has had numerous viral infections, stomach bug and German measles
the school is rife with it and they have sent 5 pupils home today with chicken pox their policy on sickness bugs is if your child has not vomited within the past 6hrs then its fine to send them in, i dont get it the bug will still be in their system.

I'm thinking of pulling my dd out of school until they get it sorted, clearly their policy is not working. i cannot handle her being ill every week and getting admitted to hospital all the time and tbf its not fair on the dc.

would i be wrong in doing this? i need some advice before i go to the head to deal with the issue.

6 hours?!

Its 48 hours in our school (from last diarrhoea or vomit session).

Lots of viral illness in winter, in foundation especially, is common though. But I would definitely be at the 6 hour rule. Is it the norm where you live?

I think about moving your dd.

Your school sickness policy is not good. Most school have a 24 to 48hrs after the last bout of D & V.

I can not see how a child would be well enough to at school after 6hrs.

Apart from their policy on vomiting I don't see what the school can do. Chickenpox is infectious before the spots come out so it would already have spread around the class before anyone realised there was a problem. Most children would be immunised against German measles any way so to get a case is quite unusual.

I'm afraid its par for the course. DS1 picked up loads of bugs in his first couple of years in school including chickenpox in Yr1. DS2 hasn't been quite so bad because he caught a lot of stuff, including chickenpox from DS1 anyway.

The problem you face is that most of these infections are contagious before the symptoms show up clearly so the damage is done before anyone realises.

Children with infectious Da nd V must remain away from school/nursery/college etc for 48 hours after their last bout if D and V. Having said this most D and V is not infectious but it is usually impossible to prove tis one way or the other and common sense has to be applied. So we let some children return to school after a few hours sometimes if in our clinical judgement it is unlikely to be infectious.