Nursery sending baby home with 'temp'

Are they giving calpol before you collect her? Could be that the medicine has worked by the time you check? Some nursery’s it is policy to send a child home with a temperature, maybe ask what their medicine policy is? I worked in nursery’s for years and some sent home straight away, some send home of the calpol doesn’t reduce the temp after a certain amount of time 🙂

Check if they have given her calpol and it’s come down xxx hand foot and mouth if rife at the minute

@Charlotte Riglen they told me they'd only ever time calpol if their temp was 39'c! Which seems a lot? X

@Sian apparently they only give it to them if their temp hits 39'c, which seems excessive?🙈x

Yeah that’s far high to wait to give calpol! I would say you need to have a conversation with the nursery manager and check that what the member of staff told you is actually nursery policy, anything about 37.5 should be being treated as a temperature and certainly giving calpol when it reaches 38.

We had similar with our baby, but he did feel hot so I went out and bought a new thermometer and turns out the old one we had wasn't accurate at all. We had a forehead one before and we now have one that goes under armpit and it's much more accurate! Might not be your problem at all but just in case! X

@Charlotte Riglen I completely agree with you and they were my thoughts exactly! Weird thing is, it's the nursery manager who told me this 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm beginning to second guess the place! Xx

Is the nursery itself quite warm? I find that my girl runs hotter than other babies so I have to dress her in t-shirts a lot of the time to avoid this exact situation!

That’s worrying that it came from the manager, depending on the size of the nursery you might be able to go above her to an area manager or the owner. I would say if there’s nobody else you can always go to Ofsted. They are letting children get far too poorly before giving medicine.

By 39.0 temp I’d expect a child to be at risk of having a febrile convulsion. Can’t believe they’d wait till that temp to administer calpol.

Ask to see their emergency calpol policy. If they ring again, ask them to take a peice of clothing off say if they have a jumper and vest on take either off and to ring back in 30 minutes if it's not gone down.

I would always ask how they are in themselves. Hot but happy and playing eating and drinking? They fine and don't need anything. Hot, miserable sleepy then definitely paracetamol and home. I'd be asking their reasoning why paracetamol after 39 and how they taking the temp underarm, forehead, ear as they have different accuracies. Is a common misconception that high temps cause febrile convulsion as even low grade fever can cause them it's the rapid change in temp that is the cause.