Baby sent home, by someone who has a rotten cold

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Please can someone help me break this down because I cant make the maths, math.
Got the baby into nursery who has a cold - as does every other kid at nursery. I said ive given them a bit of calpol as preventative.

The teacher came out saying that they cant have the baby there as theyve had calpol. This teacher was full of cold, bright red nose, could hardly hear them through a broken voice.

Why can an adult teacher go in, with a cold, sharing it round all the kids, yet our kids get sent home.
Why can the teachers give the kids calpol under parents instruction at nursery, but I cant give my kids calpol.

I get there is rules to prevent other kids getting sick - but how does this make sense.

11 O’clock. The Calpol hour.

It's because calpol can mask a fever which would make a child too ill for nursery.

Wow ours are allowed into nursery if they are unwell unless its a fever, V&D or one of the ones like chicken pox. I think they are even allowed in with hand foot and mouth.

As long as the children are happy to be there they don't mind. If they didn't allow my son in when he had a cold he would never be there in the winter. I think he has had a continous cold for 8 or so weeks 🙈

Would you not generally take paracetamol if you have a cold to help combat headache, sore throat etc? What is the difference for kids? I rarely take paracetamol for a fever as I rarely get one but I generally always take it when I have a cold to help with headache etc.

Maybe that’s because he’s at a nursery where they allow them all to get ill? If they are unwell they will pass it on to others.

My nursery doesn't allow kids in if they have had calpol. It can hide a fever. If they have a fever, they are nor allowed in nursery. Sometimes frustrating, but we have had a good nursery sickness record this year, likely partially as a result of this policy.

I mean all his illnesses come from nursery so I think its generally assumed as long as its something basic like a cold they just carry on as normal.

I assume they appreciate most parents can't afford to take time off for every cold. Plus based on seeing how strict primary schools are about kids coming in with various illnesses why would nursery be any different?

OP said she gave it as a preventative, that’s not the same as giving it for a sore head/throat.

Absolutely this

But a lot of nurseries have a policy where they won’t allow a child in if they’ve had calpol. Calpol brings down fevers and makes kids chipper for a bit but then when it wears off a couple of hours later the nursery then have a child with a fever, who’s uncomfortable and poorly. Yes some parents use calpol as a “preventative measure” but many also use it to send their very unwell kids to nursery so they can go to work and then avoid the calls asking for that child to be picked up. Hence why they won’t take them if they’ve had calpol

The math

• kids are worse then adults at spreading germs
• you need adults there to run the place, kids not as much
• a sick child will require help above what's assume by the ratios

Usually the line is if they have a fever they stay home but if it's just snotty, sore throat or coughing then it's fine to go in. Problem is once you give calpol they can't tell if there was a fever that the calpol has brought down.

I work in childcare. You will only be called 4-6 hours later when a temperature rises and your baby becomes unwell. We don’t have the policy we have it where if we have to administer with your permission your child will need to be collected.
It makes sense because if your child is poorly enough to have calpol are they well enough to be in playing etc all day probably not. Xx

I'm pretty sure this is universal across all nurseries. They won't take children who have already been medicated as there's no way for them to know how ill the actually is and a lot of parents were dose up a child who should be at home just to send them in and then refuse to collect.

But with young children you don't know of they have a headache, sore throat etc. When she says as a preventative I took that as a preventative of general cold symptoms not to prevent a fever but I may be wrong.

And I may be wrong to have taken it differently to you, which is why I asked OP.

ONE
Because as an adult you should put other's needs first, if you can:

• You should stop parents (either some or all) being told they can't work today, because nursery is closed or can't take their child because of lack of staff
• You should stop other nursery workers potentially not being paid because nursery had to close
• You should earn your wage to feed your kids if you possibly can

As a baby, you have no such responsibilities. You've no responsibility to feed your family, keep nursery open, make sure all the workers are paid. If you feel unwell and want to be cuddled by mummy, you should be.

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Because if a nursery worker can't put what they are holding (including a child) down, cover their mouth, cough, blow their nose, put their tissue in the bin and wash their hands, before they cough, sneeze, stream and wipe snot all over the people and things around them, they need to be sacked because they are a selfish twat, or sent back to nursery school themselves because they never grew past that point. If you little child fails to do any of those things, it's totally unsurprising and not their fault, so they need to be home.