24-hour sickness rule - any point appealing?

[cyanarasamba]

DS was sick in the playground at 10am this morning so I was called to pick him up. The lady in the office explained they have a 24-hour exclusion rule for vomiting, so said he wouldn't be in till Monday.

Thing is, he is absolutely fine. As a toddler he would quite often cough and then be sick, although this has become more infrequent now (he has just started reception). We give him an inhaler at night which seems to have helped. Our GP explained it's common in kids for their stomach valves react like this.

Is there any point me talking to the school to explain this, and asking if it would be ok for him to attend tomorrow, particularly as it will be 23 hours since the vomiting? I have no problem with being called in to take him home if he has been sick, just seems a shame for him to miss another day because of it.

roadkillbunny, my DD (9.8 yrs) has IBS/Reflux and the amount of times i've told her school she's fine and does not have a bug.

She does miss alot of school because of this.
It's often hard to know exactly what has caused an upset stomach. Virus or IBS due to a reaction.

Then why do no workplaces enforce this? Obviously I'm talking normal office work, not NHS or teaching. If you have a stomach upset one day, you're free to come back the next day. Presumably there are as many adults with weak immune systems as there are children?

So, if you send him in and he's sick again, are you willing to go in and clear it up?

Because when you're an adult you're expected to take responsibility for your own health and generally if you feel sick you will not go into work. However, with children we can not be sure how they are feeling so must make our best informed decision in regard to what they tell us/their behaviour etc, this is not that reliable and can be wrong! Younger bodies are also more vulnerable than grown up ones for bugs etc partly because they haven't had so much practise at warding them off and partly due to not being fully developed.

Also adults tend not to be sick on the floor or poo in their pants.

You don't know why he was sick, so you'd be totally unreasonable to send him back tomorrow.

I got flamed the other week when my friends sent in a child who had been really ill the day before, vomited all day...the next morning there they were at school, keeping very quiet about it.

I was really cross about it. It's selfish in the extreme.

and I also don't give a damn how 'inconvenient' it might be for working parents. It's your inconvenience or everyone else's at stake tbh. So get over it.

I'm with you, GetDerrida.

To my I saw a dad bring in his dd WRAPPED IN A BLANKET. He was blustering that she would be fine. He was having quite a ding dong with the teacher who was ordering him to take the child home, and he was countering that he had to go to work.

We have a child in our class who gets this. She has a letter from the doctor on file explaining and she is allowed to stay.

Yikes, Gram.

Oh we have the giving medicine in the playground as teacher stands there going as well. Not the sort of meds when the child is just finishing a course but it fine, no, this is a sick child who is just coming down with something his sibling has been off for a week with and is notifiable...and the parents think he's not yet ill enough to be at home

The only time I sent DD back before the 24/48 hours was up was in reception when she had a slight cough, had been given a yoghurt by the school at snack and then been taken out for PE. She coughed after running and some yogurt came back up. The receptionists were very embarrassed and told me if she wasn't sick again she could come back the next morning. She went back and there were no problems. They also changed the time of PE, so I don't think it was just DD.