Off nursery for teething?!!

[Lady86]

Got a call 17.30 on Thursday from nursery. Your 14 month old has a temperature, yeah, it's '38.9'. Me, really? That is high, hope she is OK. I'm on my way to collect her now anyway. Nursery: she won't be able to come in tomorrow as policy is 24 hours fever free.

I arrive at nursery where my daughter has been the only one in the baby room all week as the other babies have been away so has had one carer all to herself to find my child asleep on carer.

Carer says, it's really weird, she's been fine all day and then just crashed on me after tea and felt hot, then we checked her temperature.

We had no option for me to call work (who don't take this sort of thing kindly) and tell them wouldn't be able to work following day.

The thing is I checked her temperature immediately at pick up and thereafter and temperature never over 37.9. She has been absolutely fine and definitely well enough to be in nursery and has molar teeth coming through it turns out.

My two concerns are would a nursery have made out the temperature was higher than it really was because it suited their staffing levels not to have her there? And also how do I prevent her being sent home each time she gets a new tooth??! That can't be reasonable surely.

Thoughts welcome!

Puss in boots that’s silly. Calpol is solving it, it’s just masking it. And actually advice now is not to give calpol for a fever, only if they are in discomfort.

Also teething doesn’t cause a temp that high, if at all. The child is ill and not fit to be in nursery. There’s lots of it about (including my own dc at the moment- not teething, she’s 9!).

*isn’t solving it that should say.

My children always had a fever with teething and I know plenty of other children who did too. It’s not in Unusual- although obviously you wouldn’t know at the time it wasn’t a bug, only after

Most settings would send a young child home with a fever over 38.

@Pussinboots25

I for one am not a doctor, and I’m assuming there are very few working in nurseries, so we should all be following our PFA training.

If a baby is running a temperature it’s potentially dangerous to simply whack in a dose of calpol in the mistaken belief that it is some kind of magic potion that works every time. It doesn’t. And when it doesn’t the consequences can be awful.

Apart from anything else, if we disregard our PFA training we don’t have a leg to stand on if that one in a thousand event happens.

@insancerre

Thank you for your contribution. That can’t have been easy. But I hope a lot of parents and childcare workers will read it and get the message to treat the matter of temperature variations with the seriousness it deserves.

No your child is ill and shouldn't be at nursery. Amazing what people will try and pass off as teething.

Over the years I've had so many cases when I suddenly start teething a day or so after baby it's the go to excuse for so many parents when lo has temperature, loose nappies, runny noses, etc. Even been told 7 year olds are teething. Last one was only a temperature hes teething that turned I to loose pooh will you have him back? I'm too Ill to look after him been up with d & v I got from nanna.....but no hes not got it i can see hes teeth coming through.

Yes the amount of things I’ve caught ‘teething’!!

The only ones U here are your workplace.
Shocking attitude! Can you discuss with HR?

As for nursery, imagine they hadn’t called you?

I think temperatures can vary slightly depending on where you take them- ie under the arm versus in the ear