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I now regret putting my 18 mth grandson into the State Early head start for 0-3yrs old Day Care.
The second day he was there he caught a Gastro Virus that we all caught and my daughters & I had to take 2 days off School & work even after the labor day weekend that we were recovering.
Then, the next week he caught a cold/cough that I took him to see the Dr. twice and they said nothing they can do and to just use a humidifier and suck out mucus when I can. I had to take off two days to take him to Dr appt. He still has this cough and it seems to be worse at night...I have the humidifier for the last 2 weeks. Over the weekend I noticed it is getting worse and he is gagging. I decided to do a search on Whooping Cough (I know he is up to date on shots) I read that even if you had your whooping cough shots you can still contract it?? I didn't get much sleep last night listening to his cough & worrying about if I would have to rush him to ER.
I read that the Dr's can do a test to find out if he has it however; the Dr didn't do a test both times I took him in.
My GS has been sick all the time he has been in this Daycare?? Will he be sick forever?? My GS never got sick at the day care he was in for over a year...? I told my Dr this and he said he wants him to stay in this daycare because it is a head start program and it will help with his developmental issues.
Has anyone experienced this before with sick kids in daycare??
The second day he was there he caught a Gastro Virus that we all caught and my daughters & I had to take 2 days off School & work even after the labor day weekend that we were recovering.
Then, the next week he caught a cold/cough that I took him to see the Dr. twice and they said nothing they can do and to just use a humidifier and suck out mucus when I can. I had to take off two days to take him to Dr appt. He still has this cough and it seems to be worse at night...I have the humidifier for the last 2 weeks. Over the weekend I noticed it is getting worse and he is gagging. I decided to do a search on Whooping Cough (I know he is up to date on shots) I read that even if you had your whooping cough shots you can still contract it?? I didn't get much sleep last night listening to his cough & worrying about if I would have to rush him to ER.
I read that the Dr's can do a test to find out if he has it however; the Dr didn't do a test both times I took him in.
My GS has been sick all the time he has been in this Daycare?? Will he be sick forever?? My GS never got sick at the day care he was in for over a year...? I told my Dr this and he said he wants him to stay in this daycare because it is a head start program and it will help with his developmental issues.
Has anyone experienced this before with sick kids in daycare??
Yes, I have always experienced dealing with the sickness. In fact, we are just getting over the crud from my gd bringing it home from school. It never ceases to amaze me that parents will send their kids to school/daycare while they are sick to pass their precious illnesses along to others. What I don't understand is do these parents think that their kids are the only ones who will be sick? What about those of us who have gk's who risk being in the hospital from the parents who send their kids to school sick? It infuriates me to no end. For example, one of my gk's has asthma and so do I, which means that the littlest infection can send us to the hosp at any given time.
As far as whooping cough, I don't know anything about it, but there are several people, another gs of mine as well, who have ended up in the hosp for croup. That is going around in my area really bad.
Around here, docs say its really not a bad thing for the kids to be exposed to sickness because that evidently boosts their immune system. I understand them saying this, but do we all have to pay the price as well? Good luck and keep us posted
Now I make everyone change out of school clothes and put on play clothes and wash their hands as soon as they get home from school and I have noticed that they do not sick quite as often. Like gamma one of my twins and myself have asthma and any little respiratory thing can do us in.
Babies can die from it and it takes a long time to get over. I work for the School District and all the kids are suppose to get their shots or they can't go to school,
It is worse than Croup, I remember my son getting croup when he was young and had to be in the hospital that was scarey, too.
The State Day Care that my GS goes to has a lot of families who are from other countries and they bring illness back & forth when they travel.
I was lucky that I found out my GS had the Gastro Virus he caught from the day care the Friday before Labor Day weekend because my 87 yr old mom & my sister who has been battling breast cancer for a year was going to visit us that Sunday. I was able to warn them not to come because that Gastro Virus would have killed them both. Our family lost out on their visit and when they did visit 2 weeks later I wouldn't let them be close to my GS and I had to disinfect the whole house before they came....