At what point do you make the decision to keep your LO home if they're sick with a cold? Just curious, since it seems like LOs everywhere are constantly sick now that winter is almost upon us...
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Runny nose with yellow green mucus and/or fever.
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I keep LO home if she has a fever, has vomited and/or had diarrhea in the last 24 hours, or just looks like she is too sick/pooped to be subjected to gen pop!
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@MsLipGloss: ah yes, definitely LO's mood/attitude probably plays the biggest role for me! Although the times when he's really cranky because he doesn't feel well are the times when I most want/need to get out of the house, lol.
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Same as @MsLipGloss
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@hilsy85: Yeah, I am with you on that! I have, a couple of times, just bundled LO up to take her for a brief stroll in a nearby park . . . I figure if nothing else, the motion is soothing, and maybe there would be enough to explore visually that it would distract her from how crappy she was feeling. And it gives me a nice mental re-set too.
ETA: Because while it's public, I can still keep a safe distance from others.
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Same at @MsLipGloss: And if there is a cough I don't take her to school until she's been cleared by a doctor. A baby cough is nothing to mess with.
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@MamaMoose: do you mean like a phlegmy cough? Or a dry cough? I feel like every time I am around children I hear at least one of them coughing that chunky sounding cough!
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@hilsy85: Any sort of wet cough. Sometimes she coughs because she's drooling a lot from teething, obviously that I ignore. But if she has a sickness related cough I get her checked out.
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A cough is how other kids get sick so we stay home. Now with my two year old I might send him with a dry cough if it has been over a week since he got sick and that is the only residual symptom because by then I'm assuming we are out of the incubation period.
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@MamaMoose: Yep. That's the only reason I have sent LO back to daycare even though she is still coughing . . . the cough is just from her teething drainage.
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Same as @MsLipGloss:
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Fever/Diaherra/Vomitting and a plemy cough/nose or if she's acting "off"
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@MsLipGloss: @MamaMoose: hmm what about a hoarse sounding cough? Ya'll are making me second guess my decision to take LO to class!
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Fever or really bad hacking cough. LO had what sounded like croup (and was miserable in the morning) so i kept her home for 2 days so she could get the rest she needed to get better. It also depends on how they're acting.
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@hilsy85: That by itself would probably not be enough for me to keep LO home. If you think it's okay, I bet it is!
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I agree with @Freckles about the hacking cough.
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@hilsy85: does he sound like a seal? A couple months ago m started with some hoarseness that quickly developed into the tell tale seal bark cough from croup.
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I personally give a mental side eye to anyone's LO out in public, mouthing toys, if they appear to be sick. I know my son's nose runs just from teething, but he appears otherwise 100% fine. If they're coughing and snotty... ugh. I try to have some empathy because I know sometimes circumstances don't allow for everyone to stay at home but... I hate to think someone is spreading germs just because they're sick of being at home! So, I try to follow the same rule for myself... even when I'm desperate to go to the indoor gym
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@MamaMoose: nope it was just hoarse in the morning and then started to break up later after he woke up.
We kept him home
Turns out like half of his baby friends were out sick as well, so wouldn't have been as much fun anyway!
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@hilsy85: If it's a cough, I just give it some time because like you said, it tends to get better as the morning progresses. I think it's worse right when they wake up from being flat overnight and fluid draining?
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@shinymama: yup that makes sense, he was also most congested right after waking up!
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