Sending child to nursery with bunged up nose

[moocow1]

I feel like the worlds worst Mum, so just asking for opinions.

I kept my Daughter off nursery yesterday as she had a bunged up nose when she woke up in the morning. She fine, happy and didn't feel ill, but you know when you can hear the they sound all bunged up?

Anyway, I thought it was a bit irresponsible sending her in during covid times in case it turned in to anything more throughout the day.

As it goes, within an hour her blocked nose had completely gone and she bounced around the house the whole day, no signs of illness at all and no temp etc. She was completely fine.

I rang the manager and explained, and I asked what the policy was and was told of it's just a cold then use your own discretion. If none of the covid symptoms and obviously not snot streaming down her face and really ill etc then fine to go in again.

I turned up today and explained to the girl at the door. She went off to check with the manager that it was ok. She was really polite etc and they took her in, but now I feel totally shit. Feel like they think I look like I don't care about passing anything on to the other children and members of staff etc. Basically I look like a shit Mum. Would you have sent your child in?

Definitely. My kids had colds constantly when young, every other week when at nursery. They were fine.

My daughter has a runny nose at the moment, she's picked it up from nursery as she hasn't been anywhere else! She's still gone to nursery, she's absolutely fine in herself and no symptoms of Covid or anything

As a childminder I am accepting kids with mild colds or they would never be in this time of year heavy colds then they need to stay at home until better. My policy has always been if child needs calpol etc to get through the day, all they want to do is sleep, not join in and have a constant runny nose then they have to stay at home

Ok great,
Looks like I am worrying over nothing!

I just felt really embarrassed as if I was breaking the rules or something, but really it had already been cleared with the manager.

All done now and I will stop worrying!

If a child with a cold is able to cope, without any medication, that's fine. If the child is needing one to one care, no. If the child might get a temperature I wouldn't risk it. At my nursery any child over 37.8 degrees has to get a Covid test or stay at home for 10 days.

Yup ! Definitely! Don’t feel bad . They were just double checking because of Covid and everyone is being overly cautious ( which they should be )

My nursery luckily has a policy that colds are fine as long as there is no continuous cough or a fever .

These are the current symptoms in guidence for childcare.