Daycare CANNOT exclude for common colds. Do not let them! It's not within the "Staying Healthy in Childcare" guidelines.
As Tobily said, no fever, eating, drinking OK etc, it's no worries. Jury's out on the whole clear/yellow/green snot thing anyway. Some doctors say yellow/green is the expulsion of the infection, others say that's when they're contagious, some say it depends ont he individual. We had a little one at a daycare where I worked who had green snot for 10 weeks. And it was only 10 weeks because we stopped counting after that! And she was fine the whole time, just a really uniquely snotty kid.
at drop-off, just explain that the child has had a runny nose, but has otherwise been OK, and that you'll call in a few hours to see how they're going (much nicer than asking CCWs to call you - it's far easier to be handed a phone than to leave 10 babies behind and search out the phone, find your number in a file of 46 children then call your work number, mobile, then partner's number as well because nobody's answering)
That's what I would do, and that's what I would love most parents to do
i hope it went OK.
I spoke to my childcare about the whole snotty nose thing and they said if they excluded based on snot there would be almost not kids there during the winter months. They were not fussed about snot, it was just if there was any other symtoms as mentioned in the other posts. It certainly made me feel much better, as most of the time DD1 is just snotty rather than ill.
I thought I was doing the 'right' thing by not taking Nina to kindy on Wednesday as she had green mucous from the flu she had earlier in the week. She wasn't ill in any other way though, so I phoned her daycare on Thursday and told them that she had a runny nose, but that was it, and can she go, and they said that pretty much all the children had that cold, and were still attending. So she went on Thursday. I wish I had of known that on Wednesday though as I still have to pay for that day!
At my daycare its as long as they have a temperature under 38, are not vommiting, do not do more than 2 sloppies plops and are do not have a highly infectious disease and even if they do have something as long as they have had 2 days antibiotics they can still go
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