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Does your fever policy stand the same for children who just got vaccines?
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It sure does.
I made a new rule a couple of months ago stating that all children must stay home for the first 24 hours after a vaccine. -
A fever is a fever. It doesn't matter to me why any one has anything.
If they have any symptoms from my list of excludable symptoms, they are required to stay home.
Even if they did just get vaccines....how do you KNOW 100% that it's the cause of the fever....kwim?Comment
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My illness policy gives an exception for fevers after shots.... Our nurse practitioners here aren't open on Fridays and only give vaccinations on Mondays just in case they need to be seen on Thursdays...Comment
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yeah i prefer not to have them attend for 24 hours after shots.
I told a dcm this one day when she was dropping her kid off within an hour of getting the shots and she looked very confused, and asked why. I explained that it's in case of a reaction...and when i explained about the possibility of vaccine reactions she was shocked that vax reactions were a possibility. "well her doctor said that vaccines are totally safe!"
Makes me sad...Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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DCM brought him after his appointment last Friday for 13 month shots. She made sure to tell me that they let her know he might run a fever and have a rash this week...(again it was Friday). I think she was preparing me so that I didn't think it was an illness in hopes that I would watch him anyway.
I know usually symptoms usually show within the first couple of days and he usually doesn't have any reactions. Well... he was fine all weekend and Monday. She showed up late Tuesday and said that he didn't sleep real well Tuesday night and had a rough morning so she let him sleep. He begins to feel a little warm at lunch and he woke up from his nap with a fever of 103.7 so at the time I'm thinking.... she must have dosed him up and waited for the fever to drop. (She's going to be on Maternity at the end of the year).
I call her desk at work...(which I rarely do) but every time I have had to she never answers her work and does not answer her cell either and doesn't usually return my voicemails unless I keep hounding her but will respond to texts "once she sees them". So she didn't answer the phone but did answer the text right away that he was running a 103.7 fever and she told me her husband would pick him up in a little bit. She insists that it's the vaccinations. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be spiking a fever THAT high! Especially that/this many days after vaccinations!
Thankfully she has not brought him back this week and has been honest with me about him running a fever during the day. He is still running a fever today but she has not taken him to the doctor and doesn't seem to be planning to. She still thinks it's the vaccinations :confused:
I guess I shouldn't have any sympathy if she's missing work and he needs an antibiotic! For all she knows he picked something up at the doctor's office....Comment
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Oh and FYI... Wen my daughter had her one year old mmr vaccination... We always did run high fevers for two or three days max after shots... But on the SEVENTH day she started having seizures... Which can apparently be a severe reaction to the mmr.. Nobody ever told me that was a possibility... But YEP... It is... And that's why she's never allowed to have another mmr shot...Comment
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