Sicknesses at daycare
Does your daycare provider notify you when the other kids are sick? So that you can look out for symptoms in your child, or decide whether you want to keep him home?
DS started at a daycare center 3.5 weeks ago (when he was 6.5 months old). In that time, he caught the stomach bug and the cold from daycare. When he caught the stomach bug the first week, I kept him home Thurs-Fri and brought him back the following Monday. I asked the teacher if any of the other kids had been sick too, and she kind of avoided the question, but I noticed that 2 of the babies were not there that day.
Then, last week Thursday he came down with the cold (I think from the AM teacher because she was sneezing that morning) and a terrible sounding cough. I asked the teacher on Tuesday if any of the other kids had caught the cold and were they coughing too (since I didn't want him to be the one spreading it the others) and she was like "Oh yes, all the babies are sick!"
Obviously, I can't stop him from getting sick from daycare, but I thought it would be courteous if they'd give us a heads up so that we can look out for symptoms and be more careful so that DH and I don't catch it too.
Re: Sicknesses at daycare
Ditto.
My DC will post a sign if someone in school comes down with RSV, HFM, or something like that. But a common cold? They would just have a sign up all winter!
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Yes, I agree about the cold. I guess I should have left that out. But with the stomach bug, we could try to be more proactive at home so that even if DS came down with it, that we didn't catch it as well.
They let us know when something big, like hand, foot and mouth disease, is going around so that we can spot symptoms early. They don't tell us about the smaller things, like colds, because there isn't really anything any of us can do about those.
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They will send out an e-mail if there is a stomach bug going around. As for colds, they would have to send out an e-mail every 5 minutes. Babies get them so easily, because they put EVERYTHING in their mouths.
For Valentine's Day there were these cute pictures of my son playing with another little girl posted around the classroom. I thought it was adorable until I looked closer and realized my LO had his hands in this poor girls mouth
Needless to say, I know why he gets his colds.
I have seen signs posted at our daycare for RSV and pink eye. They also state which rooms there have been cases.
The infant room teachers have never told us that "Baby A is home sick with..." or anything like that.
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Big stuff- yes.
Common cold- no.
This is us too. There will be a sign posted on the classroom doors " a child in this classroom has been diagnosed w/ ...."
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ditto PPs - they notifiy us about HFM, pink eye, lice (ewww - that was just a scare, but ewww) but regular viruses, colds, etc. no. The kids pass them around like crazy and no one's doing anything wrong and there's nothing special that can be done to prevent them. Practice good hygiene at home and at school, but realize it will happen - especially the first year. DD has been in daycare since she was 3.5 months old, but she's only missed one day of school this winter to illness.
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Yes. They put a paper with the symptoms by the door of his classroom.
But not for colds, those are too common in the winter. More for things like strep, stomach flu, impetigo, and pink eye.
Other babies being sick is none of your business. Our daycare sends out letters if there is a diagnosis and what to look for. Not which room it was in (just "infant" "toddler" etc). If a baby is just kept home because he or she is ill they don't know what the diagnosis is, they do not tell us.
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They only inform us if there is a case of a specific illness in the classroom (RSV, HFMD, etc) and give us a handout about it, but not a stomach bug or a cold. Some kid in class always has a cold.
This. Because I've had multiple convo's with her teachers and the director about my DD's immunity (she has the immune system of a carrot) they'll tell me at pick up about stomach bugs as well- these aren't posted unless part of a DX.