Does it seem like your kid is sick all the time? Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
Some parents and caregivers are asked “Can I stay home from school?” by children on a daily basis, but knowing what’s best in each case takes knowing the child, the symptoms and the situation.
Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, explains some of things to consider before sending children to school or keeping them home.
Whether physically apparent:
“A fever is always a reason to keep your child home. Symptoms like vomiting or diarrhea are certainly reasons to keep your children home,” Ardon says.
“I also ask parents and families just to think about their child and how they’re behaving. We don’t want to send our kids to school either, if they’re just not going to be able to participate fully,” she says.
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For some children, symptoms, like headaches or stomachaches, may not be something that they need to see a doctor for on an immediate basis, but could indicate something else, like anxiety.
“Parents and families are always encouraged to keep an eye on the overall picture with their kids so that we can determine if there’s a larger issue at play with those symptoms,” Ardon says.
She advises erring on the side of caution. If your child isn’t feeling well, try to find the root cause before sending him or her off to school.
“Be thoughtful for the families and the kids around us. So it does help our kids stay healthier overall in the school year, if we’re being thoughtful about keeping our children home until they’re better to help reduce the spread of infectious disease,” she says.
Photos: Schools across US face post-pandemic reading challenges
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Third-grade students take part in a small group reading session at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Mounting evidence shows that students who took part in remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic lost about half of an academic year of learning. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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A third-grade student reads to the rest of her class at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Third-graders are at a particularly delicate moment. This is the year when they must master reading or risk school failure. Everything after third grade will require reading comprehension to learn math, social studies and science. Students who don’t read fluently by the end of third grade are more likely to struggle in the future, and even drop out, studies show. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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A third-grade student raises his hand in class at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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Third-grade teacher Chelsea Grant looks at a computer in her classroom at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Five of the 19 students in Grant’s classroom are reading below grade level. When it was time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students showed vastly different levels of skill and confidence. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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Students are seen in their classroom at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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Students enter the front doors of Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Atlanta has taken more drastic steps than most other cities to make up for lost learning during the coronavirus pandemic. The 50,000-student district was one of the only school systems to extend the school day. Elementary school students attend seven hours of school, half an hour more than before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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Students take part in a dance break in their classroom at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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A student rests her hand on her laptop in class at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)
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