Some time ago, we talked about the issue of parents taking their children with fever to class, previously medicated. The reasons can be many for each family, and we know that it is not always easy to ask for permission at work or to find who the child will stay with in these cases. But despite this, if a child is sick or has a fever, we should not bring him to class.
However, as some parents do not seem to be clear, a mother has written and shared a letter, in which in a funny and a little sarcastic way she explains why we should not medicate and send children with fever to school .
Samantha Moriá Reynolds woke up one morning like any other to start a typical mother’s day: getting ready, preparing the children and attending their respective places of class and work. But when she went to wake up one of her children, she noticed that he was not feeling well and decided to take his temperature, discovering that the child had a fever .
As we have commented on other occasions and following the advice of health professionals, when a child has a fever there are various reasons why we should not take him to school: other symptoms may appear, the child does not feel well and basically, because the fever indicates infection and it is likely that they can spread the disease they have .
Unfortunately, in addition to being difficult to stay and care for the children, sometimes some people minimize the fact that children have a fever when they see that they do not have other symptoms, so they decide to simply medicate them and send them as they are to class.
But for Samantha, and for the thousands of parents who shared her post, this is not something to be taken lightly, so trying to raise awareness of these types of situations, she decided to share on her Facebook account in a funny, sarcastic way and in the third person, why sick children should not be taken to school .
This morning, Sam woke up to find that his son was not feeling well.
Sam took his son’s temperature, and wow! I had a fever.
Sam gave his son acetaminophen and then …
Sam did NOT send his son to class.
Even when the fever subsided a few hours later, Sam did NOT send his son to school.
Sam missed work, knowing that the well-being of his son and the children who attend his school is more important than the job he missed.Son of Sam was invited to THREE birthday parties over the weekend.
Son of Sam was excited to go, but unfortunately he will have to miss them, because Son of Sam is SICK.
Sam knows that spreading his illness would not make a great birthday present, even though his son feels sad about not being able to attend.
Sam knows that his son is contagious until he is fever free, WITHOUT medication, for 24 hours.
If Sam’s son still has a fever on Sunday morning at 7 AM, Sam’s son will not attend school on Monday.I know. Like. Sam.
The publication, in which he tells everything that happened in the third person as an example of how we should act when children have a fever, went viral after being shared more than 198,000 times and with thousands of parents leaving comments in which they actually asked other parents who were like Sam.
And although Samantha’s message may be funny or even sarcastic, the purpose of it is very important, because when children have a fever, they can spread their illness to the rest of the class .
Perhaps it may seem exaggerated not to take the children to school when they have a fever, but what if we turn things around? Would you like another parent to take their sick child to class with the risk that they could infect yours and others? Certainly not.
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