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School with a cold??

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BudaBabe · 18/10/2005 06:55

Hi - DS (4) has had a cold since last week and I have sent him to school - he really wants to go and as he was fine except for runny nose I let him go. Now cold is at the chesty cough/blocked up nose stage. Is there any point in keeping him out of school? He is desperate to go and my feeling is that he got the cold in school anyway! And it was contagious at the beginning not now.

Advice??

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NotQuiteCockney · 18/10/2005 06:57

If we kept them home when they had a cold, they'd never go to school.

My feeling is, if they're well enough to run about, and not ill with something contagious and evil (measles or something), they can go in.

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BudaBabe · 18/10/2005 07:02

My feelings exactly! Comounded by fact I have same cold and I feel lousy - the thoughts of entertaining an energetic 4 yr old missing his friends is not helping! School it is!

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ghosty · 18/10/2005 07:20

I only keep my kids off school or kindy if a)they are actually 'unwell' ie, a temperature and not themselves and/or b) if the cold is of the really 'green' type (eeeewwww factor ) ...
I get annoyed when I see toddlers at playgroup with green noses as I know that DD will get it and if she gets it I have days of hell.
Ordinary runny noses I don't keep them off though.

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Carmenere · 18/10/2005 07:30

I agree with ghosty

NotQuiteCockney · 18/10/2005 07:31

What does green snot mean? Why do they get it? I understand clear and yellow, but what is green?

fairydust · 18/10/2005 07:36

I though green mean't an infection

NotQuiteCockney · 18/10/2005 07:39

But any cold is an infection.

(I think that yellow means, they're beating the infection, it's dead white blood cells that have attacked the bug. Except for the yellow they get first thing in the morning, which is just dried white snot.)

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BudaBabe · 18/10/2005 08:31

Well he's gone to school. Teacher looked a bit surprised to se him. She says she'll call me if he seems miserable.

Am also confused as to colours! I thought green was a sign of a bacterial infection and might need antibiotics if not clearing up?

He hasn't had a fever at all and has been eating as normal. I am giving him a multi-vit and cough/cold medication.

Teacher herself says she is not feeling great and her assistant is off sick today - they've roped another mum in to help out for the day! Hope we didn't start it! But other than school, there is no where else DS got his cold.

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NotQuiteCockney · 18/10/2005 08:37

I've seen the green=bacterial infection thing a bit, when I did a websearch for green snot (yum). But it was all people saying that sometimes green snot that keeps up for weeks means sinusitis, and needs antibiotics, but generally, green snot is nothing to worry about.

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BudaBabe · 18/10/2005 09:24

That makes sense - colds often go "green" for a few days but then clear up. It's when they don't go after about 10 days or so that docs will prescribe antibiotics IME.

I haven't taken DS to doc as no point.

Lovely conversation - green snot!

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FangAche · 18/10/2005 09:25

I wouldn't keep them at home with a cold at all unless they had a fever!

FangAche · 18/10/2005 09:27

The common cold virus only infects your body for 3 days. Anything after that is either your body clearing out the mucus build up in your chest..... or if the symptoms stay severe for over a week it might have progressed onto a secondary bacterial infection.

Sorry if I'm repeating.... only catching glimpses of threads at work!

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