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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...

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

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

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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!!!

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Specializes in Peds, School Nurse, clinical instructor.

coughing, runny noses, sore throats and pukers!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Same stuff as always. The season is upon us.

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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.

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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.

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Glue gun burns from Technology.

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

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