Do you keep ypur children away from nursery/school if they have a cold???

[Jazzi]

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no. they wouldn't want to be kept off.

unless an antibiotic is called for, you could keep them off and then when they go back 3 other kids would have a snotty runny nose so you're fighting a losing battle. unless the nursery say no . i told mine last week dd had diarheoa and to ring me if anything happended but nothing did and they were fine with htat.

if you have 30 children in a building at this time of year how many will either be finishing, starting or in the middle of a cold?

not unless they have a high temp or feel very poorly. The nursery has a very strict process for contagious infections, but colds don't figure - thank god.

No - if I did that there'd be whole months in the winter where they'd never attend...

If they have a high temperature with it or aren't coping very well with it then I do keep them off, though.

DS has just started at nursery so Im interested to see what everyone has to say on this. I would have said that I wouldnt.

No not unless it's a hideous cough/cold which has kept them (and me) up half the night!
Generally only keep her off if she has a temp or something else a bit more serious (eg earache)

If I didn't send DS and DD to nursery when they had a cold, I'm not sure if they'd have been there much at all (and I probably wouldn't have a job due to never being there either)

If it's a bad cold (high temp / earache as well / obviously not feeling at all well) then I keep him off, but not for a bit of a sniffly cold or cough.

Certainly not! If they had a temperature or were too ill to function, then yes I'd keep them off. But not just for a cold, no matter how snotty or coughy.

I didn't at nursery. They recover faster at home and you're not doing the other kids a favour. At school, I have kept her off if she had a bad night and is obviously tired, what's the point in going to school then? However, I won't keep her off school as often as I kept her away from nursery since I don't want her to lag behind.

no, only if they were obviously very unwell with it.

No, not for just a cold i.e runny nose but if they were tired or lethargic or upset I'd keep them off. I work in a pre-school and it has been known for rather poorly children to be dropped off when they should really be at home.

no

why?

I wouldn't, unless my DD was feeling so bad I didn't feel she was able to cope with the day at school. Otherwise she goes in, unless she can't because of school rules.

Only if they are ill with it iyswim (dd kept sleeping she never sleeps!)