Is there some kind of backup care that would allow you to work in situations like this in the future? I agree with keeping her home, but 3 days is rough. We have a backup service that sends a nanny to the house if she's too sick to go to school but I still need to work. Not the most MM thing, but there is peace in knowing there's a plan that doesn't mean I have to balance the need to not get other kids exposed against my need to work.
Is there some kind of backup care that would allow you to work in situations like this in the future? I agree with keeping her home, but 3 days is rough. We have a backup service that sends a nanny to the house if she's too sick to go to school but I still need to work. Not the most MM thing, but there is peace in knowing there's a plan that doesn't mean I have to balance the need to not get other kids exposed against my need to work.
Your daycare offers this service? Or your work?
Neither of mine provides such a thing.
Neither - it's an independent service I pay for directly so that I can send a last minute SOS that I need care and they will get someone to my house within hours of that request.
I think my husband's work also offers a service like this through Bright Horizons, but we haven't used that one.
I'm glad you decided to keep her home. I get it, we're a dual career family and the daycare sick days are difficult. Our daycare considers anything over 99 a "fever" so we have even less wiggle room than you do, OP. But on the days when it feels questionable, I think about the fact that all the other parents of kids in her class are working parents too. If I send my still-contagious kid back too soon and she gets 4 friends sick out of her class of 12, that's 4 parents who have to do the entire 3 day stay home just because I was itchy to get back one day sooner. So 12 days of lost productivity before we get to who THOSE kids spread it to, all those families' plans that might get blown, and for something like flu, there's also actual long term health risk associated with it that is hard to quantify. Suddenly staying home until she's definitely clear seems like the only right answer. At a center that has kids who are too young to get the flu shot, especially so.
Neither - it's an independent service I pay for directly so that I can send a last minute SOS that I need care and they will get someone to my house within hours of that request.
I think my husband's work also offers a service like this through Bright Horizons, but we haven't used that one.
How do I have an almost 3 year old and had know idea only 101.4 and above is considered a fever!? I thought it was 99 or 100.4.
OP I think you made the right call to keep her home. I hope she is feeling better soon.
Our daycare just sent a note and it said 101.4 and higher. That is news to me, I was always told 100.4 and above. I might go back and ask them to double check because that doesn't seem right at all.
How do I have an almost 3 year old and had know idea only 101.4 and above is considered a fever!? I thought it was 99 or 100.4.
OP I think you made the right call to keep her home. I hope she is feeling better soon.
I think that's high for daycare. Our policy is anything 100 or over by ear. I recently learned that it's really 99 though because they add one degree to it. I had no idea they were doing this and it explains why he has gotten sent home for a "fever" and then he's fine when we get him home. ANNOYING.
I kind of hate that temperature is used to gauge things anyway because I have major issues with thermometers. We have several and always get results that are all over the place. As my H says, there's only one thermometer that matters and it's the one daycare uses.
How do I have an almost 3 year old and had know idea only 101.4 and above is considered a fever!? I thought it was 99 or 100.4.
OP I think you made the right call to keep her home. I hope she is feeling better soon.
I think that's high for daycare. Our policy is anything 100 or over by ear. I recently learned that it's really 99 though because they add one degree to it. I had no idea they were doing this and it explains why he has gotten sent home for a "fever" and then he's fine when we get him home. ANNOYING.
I kind of hate that temperature is used to gauge things anyway because I have major issues with thermometers. We have several and always get results that are all over the place. As my H says, there's only one thermometer that matters and it's the one daycare uses.
Yeah, for young kids rectal is the only accurate reading. I think armpit is the next best as long as they were just not outside. We'd had ear temps read 99-104 within minutes of each other just depending on I guess what it felt like reading lol. I use mouth thermometers for my older DD now and those are also pretty accurate but most young kids can't use them.
I think that's high for daycare. Our policy is anything 100 or over by ear. I recently learned that it's really 99 though because they add one degree to it. I had no idea they were doing this and it explains why he has gotten sent home for a "fever" and then he's fine when we get him home. ANNOYING.
I kind of hate that temperature is used to gauge things anyway because I have major issues with thermometers. We have several and always get results that are all over the place. As my H says, there's only one thermometer that matters and it's the one daycare uses.
Yeah, for young kids rectal is the only accurate reading. I think armpit is the next best as long as they were just not outside. We'd had ear temps read 99-104 within minutes of each other just depending on I guess what it felt like reading lol. I use mouth thermometers for my older DD now and those are also pretty accurate but most young kids can't use them.
Even with the rectal one I've gotten a range. I normally just use the best of 3. Haha
Post by outnumbered on Jan 12, 2018 15:29:01 GMT -5
OP, I know that you already decided not to send your child to school. Thank you. Please remember to keep all kids safe. Asymptomatic kids can still infect other children and not all children survive the flu.
Just wanting to say that 101.4 isa ridiculously high threshold. There's no way my kids have ever measured over 101 without being quite sick. I'd be angry about people sending a kid who had a 101 fever the day before!
Glad you decided to keep the child at home, especially with flu.
Every doctor, specialist and hospital I know goes by 100.4. I have never heard of 101.4. My son’s temp was 101.2 this am and he was acting fine! We went to the pedi though because we needed a doctor’s note, the kid has strep and the flu. 2 weeks ago he had strep and would be fine all day but come 4 pm, he spiked a temp around 100 and would fall asleep. He was still contagious. I know it sucks to miss work but if you push them back you risk infecting them and dragging out your own child’s illness.
How do I have an almost 3 year old and had know idea only 101.4 and above is considered a fever!? I thought it was 99 or 100.4.
OP I think you made the right call to keep her home. I hope she is feeling better soon.
That's not standard. I'm a nurse, have worked with all ages from birth to death, and it's always been 100.4 = fever. I notify providers at 100.0 and up though.
The OP's daycare is very generous.
My son is whiny and acts sick as soon as his temperature hits 100.0.
We were dealing with an influenza outbreak at our hospital and I spoke to the manager of infection control. She said people are contagious 5 days after the start of symptoms. I would definitely keep my child home for several days.
We were dealing with an influenza outbreak at our hospital and I spoke to the manager of infection control. She said people are contagious 5 days after the start of symptoms. I would definitely keep my child home for several days.
I think my husband's work also offers a service like this through Bright Horizons, but we haven't used that one.
Most Bright Horizons have an onsite "sick" daycare. I think they can only take a couple of kids per day, and they do accept kids who don't attend the center. I looked into it a few times.
While my old firm didn't provide a sick nanny service, I had a few colleagues who used such a service in a pinch.
Having a sick kid while being a working parent is rough.
OP - I hope she's doing better this weekend.SaveSave
We were dealing with an influenza outbreak at our hospital and I spoke to the manager of infection control. She said people are contagious 5 days after the start of symptoms. I would definitely keep my child home for several days.
Thanks. She stayed home Wednesday through Friday.
And now she has the weekend to rest up, too. I hope she's back to 100% soon.
My kids frequently have 99-100 temps in the morning and are acting relatively fine and then around 3-4pm they go up a lot (like 102-104) so I can’t never judge if they are healthy until the afternoon. Since you gave medicine in the afternoon she might have gotten well above 100 without it.
This was really helpful to read. For the past 5 or 6 weeks DS has been on a new treatment on Friday afternoons that shoots his temp up a few degrees within an hour or two. His temp rises all evening / night, then seems to settle while he's sleeping.
Saturdays he wakes and it's in the high 99's for a while, but doesn't seem to go over 100 again until the afternoon. Then it steadily rises again until bedtime.
While his fever is expected, the pattern has always seemed strange to me. SaveSave
My kids frequently have 99-100 temps in the morning and are acting relatively fine and then around 3-4pm they go up a lot (like 102-104) so I can’t never judge if they are healthy until the afternoon. Since you gave medicine in the afternoon she might have gotten well above 100 without it.
This was really helpful to read. For the past 5 or 6 weeks DS has been on a new treatment on Friday afternoons that shoots his temp up a few degrees within an hour or two. His temp rises all evening / night, then seems to settle while he's sleeping.
Saturdays he wakes and it's in the high 99's for a while, but doesn't seem to go over 100 again until the afternoon. Then it steadily rises again until bedtime.
While his fever is expected, the pattern has always seemed strange to me. SaveSave
Cortisol levels drop later in the day which is why people often are sicker at night/spike fevers at night.
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