24 hour vomit free before returning to school?

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Do you have a statement in your student handbook that states that a student must be 24 hours without vomiting before returning to school? If so, is there a common sense factor built in that helps to weed out those students who may have vomited due to something they ate or phlegm, etc.? So that the ones that stay home, are the ones that are truly sick?

This may be a crazy question, but this has come up in 2 of my schools this past week.

Happy Tuesday to all-

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Specializes in Peds, Oncology.
So this morning (at 9:10) I sent home a student who had vomited twice. The parents just called and asked if they can send the student to school tomorrow at 9:15 (BC then he will be free from vomiting for 24 hours)!!!

Countdown is on for the end of the school year! :arghh:

I had a child I sent home at 10:15 one morning with a fever of 100.4. The mom was livid that 100.4 goes home first of all, and livid about our 24hr policy, and said "FINE, she WILL be back tomorrow at 10:15, because she needs and deserves and has rights to an education!" Well, I explained it's 24 hours without fever reducing medicine, yadda yadda and she said "FINE! I won't give any then!" I felt bad for the poor kid. Probably felt miserable. Sure enough, mom brought in the next day, but at 10am. I did do a temp check but didn't believe that she didn't give her anything.

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