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Would you have sent your DS to nursery today if .....

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EnchantedWithEdwardCullen · 10/11/2008 09:25

last night he threw up?

At about 11pm he came down stairs covered in it

He was absolutly fine and once we had bathed him and put the washing machine on he was running around playing with his cat.

We gave him calpol and went to bed, he did bring the calpol up but at no time did he have a temp or moan or say he was unwell... he was just playing, smiling, shouting as normal.

This morning he woke up, got his little bro up and theywere playing happily ....

no mention of being ill, or nothing to show he was feeling that way...

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ChopsTheDuck · 10/11/2008 09:26

if he ate breakfast and kept that down, yes.

Sometimes mine have done that, jsut thrown up then been fine a few hours later.

Lizzylou · 10/11/2008 09:26

Yes I would

AnnoyingPTAMother · 10/11/2008 09:27

No I probably wouldn't, not if it was "proper" sick. My DS has been sick before when it has just been because he has a bad cough but not proper sick iyswim! I have sent him after that but not in your case.

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Buda · 10/11/2008 09:27

No. Just to be sure. I think the rule is 24 or 48 hours after an episode of vomiting or diarrohea.

uberalice · 10/11/2008 09:27

Yes I would. Little ones have a great capacity for recovering quickly from unexplicable illnesses. Glad he's OK today.

purpleduck · 10/11/2008 09:57

No, I wouldn't

SoupDragon · 10/11/2008 09:58

No. Nurseries and schools have exclusion policies that apply to vomiting and they have them for good reason. Don't be so selfish.

PavlovtheCat · 10/11/2008 09:59

Yes I would, but let them know at nursery he was poorly so they can call you if needed.

DD has done this from time to time, mainly when she has been a pig with her tea/milk!

TotalChaos · 10/11/2008 09:59

No, I would keep him off for 24 hours. Could be a tummy bug that your DS experienced very mildly but may not be so mild for others.

WowOoo · 10/11/2008 10:01

No, I wouldn't jsut to be on the safe side.

DabblesinDebate · 10/11/2008 10:04

What soup dragon said.

It is soooo selfish of you to send him if he has a bug, and that now, god knows how many families might catch it.

SoupDragon · 10/11/2008 10:06

Do you think nurseries make up their sickness rules just to inconvenience you? Do the right thing and keep him at home.

RubyRioja · 10/11/2008 10:07

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MmeLindt · 10/11/2008 10:07

I would keep him at home, in case he is infectious.

It is not fair on others to send a sick child to nursery.

DabblesinDebate · 10/11/2008 10:11

Sh eposted at 9.25, she has probably already gone. sigh. SIGH SIGH!!!

shouldbeperfect · 10/11/2008 10:14

He hasn't got a sickness bug if he was only sick once. I'd send him.

ThingOne · 10/11/2008 10:17

Does he have a cold and does he normally vomit with catarrh? My DS2 vomits with pretty mild catarrh as does my DH and as did my older sister.

Have there been any even slightly dodgy stools? If they are slightly different I would assume stomach upset and not send him.

shouldbeperfect · 10/11/2008 10:17

....just like I'd go to work myself

DabblesinDebate · 10/11/2008 10:18

By shouldbeperfect on Mon 10-Nov-08 10:14:30
He hasn't got a sickness bug if he was only sick once. I'd send him.

YOU dont knwo that, he may have a mild case of it, but others (usually my dc's) re act very badly to bugs.

its selfish, and as poitned out nurseries have policies for that reason.

weblette · 10/11/2008 10:20

Still wouldn't send. Even if the dcs throw up only once I still keep them off for a day.

Fluffybubble · 10/11/2008 10:21

But he wasn't sick once...he also brought back the Calpol...If OP has taken to nursery it hasn't even been 12 hours since he was sick, I would be seriously annoyed if I was a parent of a child at that setting...The 48 hour guidelines are to prevent the spread of these things, not just to inconvenience parents.

SoupDragon · 10/11/2008 10:21

Selfish. I would not go to work if I'd thrown up.

SoupDragon · 10/11/2008 10:21

Are you a doctor, shouldbeperfect?

sunnygirl1412 · 10/11/2008 10:22

I used to send my ds1 to school after he'd been sick sometimes. He got (and still gets) migraine-style headaches, where he comes in white as a sheet, complains of a splitting headache, throws up, has a sleep and then feels better.

I very quickly learned to tell the difference between that vomiting and the infectious sort, and if he had no other symptoms - no temp, no diarrhoea, no recurrence of the vomiting, then I sent him to school the next day, providing he was over the headache.

As a nurse, I would say that an infectious sickness bug would probably be accompanied by other symptoms like the diarrhoea, temp etc, and so would judge that the OP's dc probably didn't have anything infectious - but I can understand the schools/nurseries not wanting to take that chance.

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EnchantedWithEdwardCullen · 10/11/2008 11:33

He had already left with DH,

in all honesty this was our first poorly incident , hes only been at playgroup a few months.

I would have previously thought I would have kept him home, but this morning he was 100% normal, even livlier than usual so it didn't really occour to me not to get him dressed and DH took him.

Feel shitty now

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