Well, here I go again. A brand new family with great kids started Monday. Today, the little girl started acting droopy and lying around and also did not eat her lunch. I felt her forehead, she felt warm, so I took her temp. It was 101.5 with a forehead thermometer (temporal artery).
I then checked another child as a double check...it read 98.9.
I called the Mom, she wrapped things up at work and picked her up. Within 30minutes of picking her up, she texts me and says she is fine and her temp is below 100. She also said she has only had a fever once before in her lifetime.
(she is 4.5 years old).
Now she wants to know if she can come back tomorrow as she seems fine. My policy says no, but I don't want to upset this family their first week.
Does anyone else use this type of thermometer? Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just another parent that wants to send a sick kid to daycare?
I then checked another child as a double check...it read 98.9.
I called the Mom, she wrapped things up at work and picked her up. Within 30minutes of picking her up, she texts me and says she is fine and her temp is below 100. She also said she has only had a fever once before in her lifetime.
(she is 4.5 years old).
Now she wants to know if she can come back tomorrow as she seems fine. My policy says no, but I don't want to upset this family their first week.
Does anyone else use this type of thermometer? Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just another parent that wants to send a sick kid to daycare?
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