When you have a cold, do you go out?

[Naomi]

I've been thinking about this a lot, as we seem to always be either starting, in the thick of, or at the tail end of a cold in our house. I'm not talking full on congestive coughing, green snot, fevers etc just your average runny nose and slight cough.

Do you go to work? Send the kids to school? Do the shopping?

[Cherie]

Yes...Because life just wont stop while I sit at home..:hehe:
Although I do stay home if I have a bad flu.

[Mad Old Cow]

well:shh: i don't get a cold or flew :P but my DD goes to work full up with cold & flu & her boy goes to school with cold . i think if you feel well enough to go outside with a cold & saw throat with runny nose (but not green LMAO) then yes you should go out but if you have flu symptems then noway as it will make you feel worse:yes:

[Kekka]

I stay home when it's full blown (body aches, a 3 tissue box kinda cold with that sneezing sleepy feeling - as I have now). That is responsible to take yourself out of the general population. I move on the train if someone starts spluttering near me.

If it's merely a sore throat and slight snuffle I cope with drugs and continue about my day.

PS - I hate it when mothers take kids with a croupy or chunky cough out and the child/children is spluttering everywhere.

[zen]

i stay home if i think there's any chance of passing something on to someone else... and i hate being anywhere near any sick persons when i am out, and really can't stand it when someone thinks it's ok to visit when they are sick, like i want their germs? but... i think it's true a person can't pass on a cold, but can pass on a flu?

[lucyloo]

If the kids are just a simple runny nose- no green in sight- they continue on as normal through the day, but we don't go out at night or late afternoon, and if its a freezing day, I keep them at home.
A cough is a bit different as the 3 of mine are asthmatics, and Mitch still gets croup at 12, so I take a bit more care.
I just keep soldiering on whatever I have, as most mothers do!!:)

[Mad Old Cow]

Lucy, would'nt it be great if our mums came & looked after us like we do with our kids when sick lol although must say that untill mum got really sick say 6 months before she died she would cook food etc & send things to any of her kids if we were crook & phone to see how we all were

[Naomi]

It's mainly the kids I wonder about. I had a fellow mother complain about parents who send their kids to creche when they are 'sick'. I have always sent them in the past if the snot is clear, or if they don't have a fever or infection (chesty cough/green snot), and certainly not if they seem 'sick'. Now I'm wondering if *I'm* the mother who sucks by potentially exposing other kids to colds (even though, they usually pick the cold up from creche/preschool in the first place!).

Hugo went to preschool today, he has a runny nose ... I thought about keeping him home but - if I kept him home every time he'd miss every other week I reckon. He was fine in himself and keen to go :dk:

(Not to mention, I would go stark raving mad if I was at home constantly with them every time they had a sniffle.)

[Supa]

I send my kids when they are like that Naomi only when its thickgreen snot & hacking coughs do they stay home

[miss kiki]

i agree with supa. and of course if they have a fever. if it's a cough once in a while, they still go to school. or if it's just a clear runny nose, still school. :yes:

[Heather]

I have a cold....but I still have things to do....I don't have any other choice.
I would make an exception if it was full blown....hell I wouldn't care if the house was falling down around me....I'd just want my pillow (no, not Tontine Therapy).

[Mesmereyes]

When my kids have a cold I must say I let them stay home, but only cos I love that one on one time with them, but again I am not a working Mum at the moment ( and when I was it was if I was not working and they had a cold then I would keep them home from school), BUT give a man a cold and the whole world stops LMAO

[Rachel]

I was actually talking to some other parents about this at dinner last week and we all agreed that it is healthy for children to get colds as it helps build up their immune system and therefore we have no problem with them being around kids with colds and wouldn't hold our own children back either. Obviously that doesn't apply if a child has a fever, nasty cough etc

[lucyloo]

Ayms has woken up this morning with a 'croupy' cough, and she has a slight fever, so she won't be going to daycare today, she will stay with me.:( I'm not sad that she is staying with me, I'm sad because she is probably coming down with croup!!

[Alexa]

Only miss work if I have a migraine. I haven't had a cold in 4 years, helps that I have a flu shot free from work, and I don't really have any kids in my life.

[Stormy]

It's natural in the colder months to get the sniffles.....so I will still go to work with a slightly sniffly nose and a dry cough. I won't go however if I have a productive cough or I feel generally unwell like I have the flu (i.e. headache, muscle aches, fever). I figure I will only go to work, get there and feel like rubbish and have to turn around and come home again. :uhno:

It really annoys me when people come to work just to prove they are ill. What annoys me even more is when the same people use their sick leave for personal days and then when they are actually sick, they have none left to use so they come to work and make the rest of us sick. :roll:

[amyamz]

i have a cold at the moment - luckily i didn't have to go to work today. im just trying to decide whether i should still go to boot camp tonight or not, i haven't done anything all day and i dont wanna make it worse by going out in the cold night air but then i feel bad for missing a session!

[sandydee]

i go to work if it just a sniffle/cold but not if it is flu etc

[Luv Angel Musik Babee]

With the kids as long as they arent too bad like green nose, cough fever etc I send them to DC. ATM both littlies are sick so have been home from DC but Ive had to take them shopping :( it sucks having them cough etc but its something I just have to do

[Naomi]

With the kids as long as they arent too bad like green nose, cough fever etc I send them to DC. ATM both littlies are sick so have been home from DC but Ive had to take them shopping :( it sucks having them cough etc but its something I just have to do

I hear what you are saying. My husband works away four days a week at the moment and if I need bread and milk, I have to take them out, I can't just ask him to pick some up or go when he gets home in the evening. I was thinking to myself, it must be so hard to do that full time!

[redrobyn]

Unless I'm really sick I just carry on as normal, like everyone else depends on the severity and how bad you are, when my d.d was a child she was kept at home more than she should have been as she was a severe asthmatic and just couldn't breathe when she got sick, my grandson is just the opposite to his mum gets over colds quickly and loses very little time from school from being sick, I think you just have to use commonsense on when to go out or when to stay in.

[Heather]

You said it Red....just use common sense.

[redrobyn]

How are you feeling Heather o.k. I hope?

[Mad Old Cow]

well i have a cold & i went to GF tonight & her mum is staying with them for a few months & shes 84 so i gave GF big hug but said to her mum i can't hug you cause i got a cold but when we were leaving she grabbed me & gave me a big hug lol