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Administering Calpol

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CroweRhianna3457182943 · 02/02/2022 11:56

Not sure if any other mothers have experienced this recently..... I have a 13 month old!
He is teething and has had a high temperature on and off for around 3 weeks. We have had him in A&E twice and in the GP surgery to which have all confirmed there is nothing wrong with him appart from teething.
Therefore he has been in nursery half of the month and sent home 2 times now! In which we are still expected to pay for those absent days too.
The nursery refused to give calpol when his temperature was almost at 40 which in itself it's dangerous for the child in terms of chance of convulsion etc! They would only administer calpol once I said I will pick my son up! At A&E the doctor and the nurse were literally laughing at the fact that nurserys 'policy' was that they can only administer calpol throughout the day if the doctor prescribes calpol!? He said how can we prescribe an over the counter medicine, a prescription has never been heard of ''take this boy home there is nothing wrong with him'' were the doctors words.
So of course I sent my little boy back into nursery the following day for them to yet AGAIN send him home!
It's ridiculous and would not surprise me that they send children home for no reason regularly because of the fact that they are over staffed and to rinse money from the parents.
Fuming lol

OP posts:
Tyrozet · 05/02/2022 21:37

It is the fact nursery will not administer calpol unless prescribed by a doctor although they do not supply prescriptions for this and never have.

They only administer calpol once we are on our way to pick them up. Rather than when they actually need it!

What are they administering then if your doctor refuses to prescribe the Calpol? Either the nursery are breaking their own policy and giving paracetamol without a prescription or you have contradicted yourself and the doctor has in fact prescribed it. Which is it?

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