Would you have sent your child to daycare?
AsOctoberFalls
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Let's play "Would you have sent your kid to daycare?"!
DS woke up in a good mood yesterday and ate breakfast fine. He was in the church nursery and they said he was very good. On the way home from church, he was fussy and crying, then he vomited in the car. After vomiting, he got REALLY tired and wanted to go to sleep at 11:30 (usual naptime is 12:30). We took his fever when we got home (no fever) and then sent him straight to bed without lunch.
We woke him up at 3:15. He would have kept sleeping for quite a while, as far as I could tell. When we woke him, his fever was 100.2. He wanted to eat and drink, so we gave him some pedialyte and crackers. We also gave him ibuprofen for his fever. After that, he acted 100% normal. He ate dinner and went to bed around 7:15, which is his normal bedtime. His temperature was slightly elevated (99.2). He slept through the night, and when he woke up this morning (earlier than normal, probably because of his long nap yesterday) his temperature was 98.8. He ate breakfast and was acting fine. No vomiting aside from the one time in the car on Sunday morning.
My husband took him to daycare. I would have kept him home. Technically, he was okay to go considering his temperature never reached the ?fever? threshold (100.4 according to our pedi) and he only vomited once. He has vomited in the car before without being sick, but only maybe 4x in his life. It?s not a common occurrence.
I?ve got my phone on me today in case daycare calls.
What would you have done?
Re: Would you have sent your child to daycare?
This...also vomit/diarrhea free for 24 hours as well. I also hope he feels better.
Yep, this. I have kept her home for just a runny nose/bad cough overall looking and acting miserable with no fever. So i just go with my gut. There have been 2 instances where she's puked in the evening, no fever though, and sent her the next day because she was acting normal.
In that situation, most likely sent him.
We had something similar happen recently, LO puked 1x and he was running a low-grade fever (100.5) but it was at 1:30a. Lovely child woke me up to puke on me. Since it was so middle of the night we kept him home the next day, because we weren't sure if he was ok or not by 7a. If it had been at least 12hrs of no puke and no fever then yea, to daycare he goes.
This.
Hopefully it's a good day for him!
I would have sent them. We've had so many fleeting viruses like that - 1 vomit, a minor fever, then all better the next day. Also, I know they are getting it from daycare, so the kids have already been exposed. Plus, worst exposure risk is before symptoms start AND gastroenteritis is contagious for 2 weeks after. I'm not keeping them home for 2 weeks, so what's the point.