Attendance After Vaccines

[SilverSabre25]

Do you allow children to attend the same day they have gotten shots? Or do you require at least 24 hr exclusion?

[Sunchimes]

I've always let them in the same day. But, I never have more than 3, so I can keep a pretty close eye on them for problems.

[Cat Herder]

I do allow attendance, same day.

I am comfortable with it, though.

I think it is more of a personal decision. One of those grey areas.

[MrsB]

I tell parents I do allow same day, but it has to be at least 30 minutes after they have been given the shots. Just in case they have a reaction. I tell parents though if they are too fussy to keep up with the crew or get a fever above 100.2 then they will need to be picked up. I do allow parents to give tylenol before they bring them. Most parents try to get afternoon appointments, so its not usually an issue.

[cheerfuldom]

I'm okay with them coming. Its never been a huge issue for us

[Blackcat31]

NOPE. Mine stay out for 48 hours. NEVER had this rule until last year. I have had two kids have seizures after imms and that was enough for me to make the rule.

I am too old to even want to go there.

Now I make sure all my dck's have imms when parents have two days off or have the imms done on Fridays when I am off for two days. One more liability issue I am not having to deal with.

[jojosmommy]

I allow but recommended they do shots on Friday afternoon.
My own son had a seizure after shots at 12 mo, still does occasionally now and I have a current dck with seizure disorder so I don't worry too much about it.

I have thought about making it a rule but figure I can't tell them everything under the sun.

[Jenniferdawn]

I'm the same as Blackcat. I don't give my own kids immunizations and I don't wnt to have to watch out for the reactions in other children as well. They have to give them on Friday after care as well.

[Breezy]

Oh how scary with the seizures! My 12 month old just had 5 shots yesterday and now I'm all nervous :-(I well, I was nervous before but more so now.

[SilverSabre25]

I'm leaning towards exclusion for 24 hrs, at least. I don't want to deal with the yucky diapers, the fussing, the low-grade fevers, nothing. Yuck.

Maybe if I did it at least for the under-2 crowd? Older kids can at least tell us "my leg hurts" or whatever but the babies just scream.

I have two here today who just got shots this morning...one is fussing and refusing his bottle (unusual for him). The older one is being a pill, but that's more or less normal.

[MarinaVanessa]

I require 48 hours exclusion and suggest that parents schedule their childs immunizations on Friday afternoons so that they don't have to take 2 days off from work. Their 48 hours can go by on the weekends. A DC provider in my area had a child that got a fever after getting immunizations. She got picked up but got worse at home and had to go to the emergency room because her fever got so high she had a seizure. I guess it was a bad reaction to the immunizations. It scared the bugeezuz out of the DC provider and me after she told me what happened. Someone on here mentioned having a 48 hour exclusion policy and I immediately changed mine to this too for piece of mind.

[littlemissmuffet]

Nope, not allowed at daycare the same day of immunizations. They can come the next day, but I recommend Friday afternoon appointments as well.

[jojosmommy]

Febrile seizures are scary but typically don't harm children or the brain. My son gets them almost every time he has a fever.

He has been checked out by many different doctors and the information is the same. Rarely do imms cause seizures in children who are healthy and not otherwise seizure prone. I would avoid scaring parents over something that is unlikely to happen anyway.

And in my daycare imms are required so I'd rather they get them and not make it a pain to do so.

[daycare]

They can attend if they are willing to sign documentation that their child received an immunization that day.

Info required:
Name of shot
Name of doctor
Time of injection
Has child had any past issues with immunizations??


That's all I require

[daycare]

I wanted to add that I understand the reasoning for the exclusion is to lower the risk of liability you want to assume, but I know my parents wouldn't go for that at all.

But I like the idea