SICK TIME FROM SCHOOL - DD1 BEEN SICK, FEELS BETTER NOW BUT CAN GO TO SCHOOL FOR TWO DAYS

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DD1 woke up with stomach pains this morning and was sick three times. Just had an extra hours sleep and she has woken up feeling much better. I know it's a bit early to tell and she may feel poorly again later. She has just eaten a cake, watching tv and thinks it's great that she doesn't have to go to school today or tomorrow.

School have told me that they have a 48 hour rule - if child is sick they have to stay off school. She's home until Friday now.

My first instinct as an emetophobe is to say, good I glad she won't be out there infecting anyone else's children.

But, if I leave the emetophobia behind, I do think that if she carries on feeling fine and eats OK today, then I would send her in to school tomorrow. Sometimes these bugs are very sudden and quickly got over again.

Its better she stays home than spreads whatever germ made her sick round half the class is it not?

I agree its better.... but lots of schools have a 24hour rule... (my charges school does!)

If she is fine and herself ALL day today eats well etc, then i personally would send her back tomorrow as well.

Totally agree - I wouldn't want a child going into school sick and passing it onto dd either. Just seems a bit silly if she's going to be alright for the rest of the day and I can't send her in tomorrow.
I've just told her that school have said she can't go back until Friday - her face lit up and she started jumping around screaming Hooray - what does that tell you?

i'd stick with the 48hour rule. i base this on harefields policy that if you have sickness and/or diahorrea then you must stay away for 72hours since the last episode.

I'd stick with the rule too tbh, even though she's bounced back. I can't remember if our school says 24 or 48 hours after the last episode - must check.

My dd always astonishes me though. If she's sick, within a very short space of time she says she'd like to eat again, even though sometimes she's not completely better and is still ill later. If I'm sick - I can't even think about food again for ages.

IMHO I think it is very wrong and unfair to send a child with a tummy bug to school before the time is up

It is unfair on the child and on all the other families

What goes around comes around

SO the working parents who want to go back to work who send their child too early will infect other children and so make their parents have to take time off

So if child A goes to school too early and infects B & C.

Then B & C come back too soon and D & E get it

Another time B infects A and so the 1st parent has to take more time off

It just goes round and round

But if A had stayed off it wouldn't have gone round the whole class iyswim

sorry guys that was a long rant

Hmmm RTKM, you certainly seem to have a very strong opinion on it!

The only thing I was thinking of when I said I might send a child back after 24 hours was that sometimes these very quick things can be caused by something the child has eaten rather than a bug. That can make you quickly ill and quickly better again, and is not contagious.

But mainly, I am with you RTKM. In fact, I am secretly enraged to learn that anyone has allowed their recovering children anywhere near mine!

having just had extremely bad case of D+V which I suspect I caught from toddler group would agree about keeping her off for the 48hrs. I know its a pain but if it is passed on to others it is not fair even if she is feeling better the bug may not be completely gone.

I know it is one of my rant subjects

I agree with RTKM. The last school my dd was at, she lost so much time through vomitting. Nearly every week she had time off. It kept circulating round and round the school and they couldn't get rid of it. Parents were sendign their children straight back to school and on quite a few occassions dd as even sick at school. I kept her off for the 48 hours, but since other parents didn't it was never ending.

if she feels better, why not ask for some work she can do at home?

I've just phoned the school as dd hasn't been sick since 8am. When I called the headteacher was in the office and the secretary cleared it with her. They have said that as long as dd is no longer sick today and keeps her food down she can go back to school tomorrow.

She has eaten lunch and has kept it down. She is now out in the back garden bouncing on the trampoline, running in and out of the paddling pool. Just had an icepole and is laughing and joking with her little sister.