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  • Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

I'm in the Boston area and have had a few Strep Throat, a few bronchiolitis, several pneumonia, stomach bug, and several high fevers/sore throat/cough viruses. It's coming...

Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

In MA as well....mostly viral stuff and colds...thankfully kids who have been sick are staying home! YAY! Hope it lasts!!

WineRN

1,109 Posts

Specializes in NCSN.

We had strep run through the first two weeks of school here :(

Right now it's a mix of allergies and bronchitis, sometimes little ones have both on board which is no fun. We are in spelling bee season here so I have a bunch of kids being sent in sick, just to be picked up right after the test.

Eleven011

1,250 Posts

Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

We had a run on mono at the beginning of the year. My high school kids passed it around like candy. Now we are seeing strep and head colds/sinus infections. And of course the dreaded hangnail in my preschool group is ever present.

GdBSN, RN

652 Posts

Specializes in School Nurse.

Allergies...lots of students "dying" from seasonal/mold allergies.

NutmeggeRN, BSN

2 Articles; 4,620 Posts

Specializes in kids.
We had a run on mono at the beginning of the year. My high school kids passed it around like candy. Now we are seeing strep and head colds/sinus infections. And of course the dreaded hangnail in my preschool group is ever present.

Whan parent ask me if mono is in the building I say "yup, From Sep 1 to June 30"!!! Every six weeks or so!!!

bsyrn, ASN, RN

810 Posts

Specializes in Peds, School Nurse, clinical instructor.

coughing, runny noses, sore throats and pukers!

OldDude

1 Article; 4,787 Posts

Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Same stuff as always. The season is upon us.

River Song, RN

84 Posts

This past week it's been broken arms for me!

Two first graders in three days had closed fractures at recess from falling off the playground apparatus. One was a broken humerus near the shoulder, the other the radial neck near the elbow.

Now I'm having "copy cats" coming in for small bumps as they want a broken arm too :sarcastic: After a quick range of motion check, they get a quick ice pack and then are sent on their way. I broke my own radius in a bike crash earlier this year so I explain that it's not as cool as they think.

Specializes in School nursing.

The usual at the season change, with on exception: bacterial conjunctivitis. I rarely see this in my older student population (7th-12th) and yet I've seen over a dozen cases of it this year.

I even got it myself, but thankfully it was over a long weekend, I knew what it likely was and got antibiotic treatment. When I walked into urgent care I told them I thought I had bacterial conjunctivitis; doc looked at me for a second and asked what I did for a living. I stared at him and said "school nurse." He just laughed and said "well then, you'd know!" Was in and out in under 10 minutes.

Farawyn

12,646 Posts

Glue gun burns from Technology.

MrsNurse08

124 Posts

Strep throat, scarlet fever, lice,lice and more lice, hand foot and mouth, and the list goes on....

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