But moooooom, I'm Siiiiick!

I have discovered the SURE FIRE WAY to make sure my kids do not get sick at all – have the lovely Deana send me a sample of Triaminic Thin Strips for us to test while we talk about when it’s ok to skip school, and when they need to get their behinds back in class without worrying their contaminating everyone they’re in touch with.

But I am a patient mom! The pup, my lovely pre-teen/tween, finally succumbed to a cough and cold! SCORE! Now if only I could find that little box…

Just kidding. I knew where it was. Anyway – As I mentioned, Deana contacted me to let me know that the National Association of School Nurses have partnered up with Triminic to help create a set of Sick Day Guidelines to help parents make the right call when their kiddos are sick. Keep them home, send them to school… it often seems to be decided by a single point on the thermometer. Then it’s off to the store to be confronted by all the OTC (over-the-counter) cough and cold remedies, to see if you can squash it at home before headed to the doctors. There have been some recent changes to the labels and guidelines of these products- so please read the labels carefully! Many of the OTC brands are now not recommended for children under the age of 4.

Triaminic Thin Strips are most awesome because the dose is already measured for you, just pop 1 or 2 (depending on age and size of your kiddo) into their mouths and let it dissolve. The pup, who normally makes faces at all such medicine type things, declared that it tasted like sugar and that made her happy.

The Sick Day Guidelines offer more helpful tips for handling sick days, and give guidelines on when to keep your kid home – guidelines that are helpful for our teenagers too. After all, deciding on if it’s a cold, flu or “got-a-test-itis” is a necessary parenting skill – even if we should have it all figured out by this age, some teenagers (BOY! I’m looking at YOU!) are masters at pity ploys!

So check out the guidelines today!