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

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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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god no.

48hours since last vomiting incident for us.

with dh immune suppressed i hope other parents follow that basic rules regarding this, but i know they dont.

I didn't actually know there was a 'rule'!

He was better. I would have sent him. Exactly this happened last night but I've kept dd home anyway because I'm on mat leave. She is completely fine.

If it was infectious and he has recovered and is fine it is because his immune system has beaten it and he is no longer infectious. he would not be a risk to anyone else. The time limits are more to do with making sure they are better.

He was better. I would have sent him. Exactly this happened last night but I've kept dd home anyway because I'm on mat leave. She is completely fine.

If it was infectious and he has recovered and is fine it is because his immune system has beaten it and he is no longer infectious. he would not be a risk to anyone else. The time limits are more to do with making sure they are better.

It is done now and probably will do no harm but I perosnally wouldn't have sent him either not particularly out of concern for him as he seemed fine but the other children.

I have 2DC's and whenevr these sickness bugs go around dd spends a whole night and day throwing up every half an hour always the same pattern so I am no prepared that if she is sick once it is going to keep coming. DS on the other hand is sick once maybe twice while the bug is going around and is fine bounces back in minutes. I would worry that although he was only sick once/twice another child could be like my dd and be quite poorly for a longer time.

No. even if he doesn't seem unwell he may indeed have a viral infection - he could well develop diarrhoea, and this can spread like wildfire round a nursery and make small babies quite ill. There is no way of knowing less than 12 hours later. I'm rather at this tbh.

Ah, I see this is a preschool rather than a day nursery. But what I said still stands (in fact doubly so if you are available to look after him). If it had been 11pm on Saturday, and he'd been fine all day sunday with no sign of dodgy poos, then fair enough.
I think you'll find your playgroup has guidelines about what to do in these situations - ours certainly did. And if not it should!!

Have just looked up how long norwalk virus (commonest vomiting bug) is infectious for. It turns out I'm wrong. But seeing as it can be caught up to 2 weeks after symptoms - then it'll be hard to do the right thing.

I had a similar situation to this last week. I was at work and my dd (3.5) was with my FIL&Partner, they were due to drop dd of at preschool (I collect her) but she was sick just after her lunch, and then lay down to rest for a while, within an hour she was absolutely fine. I said she shouldn't go to preschool, and collected left work early to collect her. I rang her preschool and they said if its a bug she shouldn't go back until 48hrs after last lot of vomiting, but if it was just something she'd eaten she'd be fine to go back. Anyway she was fine when I collected her and fine the next day so she went to preschool the following day, less than 24hrs after she was sick. I did this because I discovered my FIL&Partner had been overfeeding her, they often do this, it drives me up the wall, but this is the first time shes been sick. I discovered she had at least 3 custard creams (dd says more, they say 3) and her lunch which I provide (I give them her breakfast, lunch and a snack) and a whole packet of crisps, I'm not surprised she was sick.
Thay rarely have her because of this but my MIL who usually has her while I work and is great was unwell.
Just to say that not all sickness is viral there are other reasons too, dd also gets sick sometimes if she has a cough and drinks too much. I think we have to know our own children, and I did check with her preschool. But if I had any thought that it was a bug she wouldn't have gone.

My honest answer is that I'd keep him at home, unless I had an improtant apt' at work that no one else could cover.

I asked my nursery what to do in this siutuation once and they said that if it was a one off vomit and DD was abolutely fine before and after and was probably related to a food / overeating or soemthing then that would be fine but if there was any diarrhoea or any other symptoms or DD wasn't 100% in herself, then the 'rules' would apply.

No I really wouldnt

1. its against the rules 24/48 hours
2. I wouldnt want other children to catch it
3. On the occasion when he was unexpectedly been sick at playgroup he was really upset

if he was sick, he was infectious for at least the previous 24/48 hours. The lack of further episodes suggests the absence of a serious infection.

I personally would have kept him at home for the Monday though.

Nurseries are not a germ-free zone. Bacteria and viruses are in the environment constantly. The exclusion policies exist to mitigate spread of infection, not prevent it totally.

Yes. My son often has unexplained one off bouts of vomiting that are not connected to an illness. If I kept him off school everytime he was sick,I'd probably have social services on my doorstep re truancy.

Absolutely not, doesn't matter how many times he was sick, he has a bug and will pass it on to other children. My oldest was sick on Fri night and it took 'til Mon am for me to get sick, but I still got the bug.

It's not true that all sickness is caused by a communicable infection. My son's sickness never is. He is sick maybe every month.

You're right, mabanana - children can be sick because something they've eaten has disagreed with them, or because they've coughed too much or because of a headache, or from travel sickness (not in this particular case, I know) - none of which are communicable.

Yes

No. My children have had different reactions to viruses in the past. You can't ever be sure it wasn't a virus and or even something bacterial that can be passed on. When my kids have had viruses in the past, they haven't always had the poops or a temperature but the sickness has still swept through the household. I always leave 48 hours because that's what's recommended by the department of health, not matter how healthy they seem.

I work four days a week and being solely responsible for child care means taking the time is a massive nightmare and stressful to manage but frankly if everyone followed these guidelines i'd have to take a lot less time off in the long run!

I don't often use these words but in this instance i do think its incredibly thoughtless to do otherwise. My mum is immuno suppressed because of chemotherapy, so I now appreciate that what is a minor incident for one person, could result in a serious illness for another.

Mabanana: without wishing to worry you I'd get that checked out, if you haven't already.