99.5

[DietCokeLover]

Do you consider 99.5 to be a fever that keeps your child home from school the next day?

DS has a head cold and just registered a 99.5 temperature.

[georgiegirl]

Officially no. How is your child feeling? Energetic? Run-down? How much snot? Any coughing? Id go by some other indicators to sway my decision on whether to send a kid to school.

[ett]

Officially no. How is your child feeling? Energetic? Run-down? How much snot? Any coughing? Id go by some other indicators to sway my decision on whether to send a kid to school.

:yeahthat:

[Indianamom2]

I'm pretty cautious in general with illness and school, but a low-grade fever and a head cold would most likely signal an ear infection or sinus infection which aren't contagious....so I think if it stays low, it's ok to send him.

[chiisai]

Only if his/her energy level was low, and/or there was coughing, or sore throat, etc., or I felt something was just off.

[JBaxter]

nope has to be 100+ here

[Liziz]

I think it's more about how the kiddo feels, but medically (and any school I've come across uses the same thing), it isn't actually even considered a fever until 100.4. For instance, my daycare can't even send kids home until it's over 100.4. If he's acting fine, I'd send him.

[swissair81]

:yeahthat: Medically, it isn't a fever unless it's at least 100.4.

[mackmama]

I was told 100.4 is officially a fever, but I'd go by how your DC's acting.

[essnce629]

If the only symptom of anything was just a temp of 99.5, then no, I wouldn't keep my child home. I'm sure my kids temp can get that high just from running around the house and wrestling with each other. I'd check their temp again in the morning, see how they are acting, and reassess.

If the 99.5 temp was combined with a cough, sore throat, complaining, lethargy, etc then yes, I'd keep my child home (if they were the same way in the morning).

[roseyloxs]

No but it also depends on how your child usually measures when they are well. I tend to measure a full degree lower then the average 98.6 and so does my DD. DS measures normal though. So if my DD measured at 99.5 I would be a bit more concerned then if DS did.

[ellies mom]

Do you consider 99.5 to be a fever that keeps your child home from school the next day?

DS has a head cold and just registered a 99.5 temperature.

Nope. If my child is feeling poorly, I still might keep them home but not because of the temp.

I follow the school rules when it comes to temps but I don't fuss about temps on their own. I tend to treat for how the child feels, not the number on the thermometer. So, a kid that obviously feels like crap with a 99.5 temp will stay home but a normal acting kid with a 99.5 temp is going to school.

[elephantmeg]

nope. I'm keeping DS who was 100.7 home today though. Even though he's full on normal right now. It's going to be a LONG day!

[mommylamb]

I don't consider it a fever unless it's 100.4.

[MSWR0319]

No but it also depends on how your child usually measures when they are well. I tend to measure a full degree lower then the average 98.6 and so does my DD. DS measures normal though. So if my DD measured at 99.5 I would be a bit more concerned then if DS did.

:yeahthat: my normal temp is upper 96/ low 97. So when I register as "normal" I know I'm sick.

[hillview]

Officially no. How is your child feeling? Energetic? Run-down? How much snot? Any coughing? Id go by some other indicators to sway my decision on whether to send a kid to school.

:yeahthat:
Just a 99.5 temp and not other symptoms, they go to school.

[wendibird22]

Our school policy is 100.5 or higher. Like others, if just a cold then I would send.

[DietCokeLover]

I sent him. He didn't want to miss their "Thanksgiving Feast" today.

[smilequeen]

Only if they also feel awful.

100.3 is a real fever. Anything below that is not a true fever, but I'd keep a kid with that temp home if they were feeling bad.