As a person with a child and many small nieces and nephews, and multiple teachers in the family, I will tell you that you're wrong.
The disease they bring home may be something you were exposed to but it will ~~mutate~~ grow stronger in the child as the weak ones are killed off and infect you anyway.
And there is a reason you can't come back for 24 hours. Many diseases are still contagious after your symptoms have cleared. If you throw up and feel better, it doesn't mean the disease is now gone.
So please respect the science and herd mentality and keep sick kids away from kids and adults for at least 24 hours after symptoms subside, or at least make sure the other adults are explicitly ok with you being around them.
>The disease they bring home may be something you were exposed to but it will mutate in the child and infect you anyway.
Not true, viruses do not mutate at such a rapid pace. If they did vaccines would be entirely ineffective.
>And there is a reason you can't come back for 24 hours. Many diseases are still contagious after your symptoms have cleared. If you throw up and feel better, it doesn't mean the disease is now gone.
With influenza and the common cold children are no longer contagious after the symptoms have faded. Anything else that is infectious should be treated by a doctor and you should ask him.
"How long can I spread it?
About a week. You’re contagious from 1 day before you have any symptoms. You stay that way for 5 to 7 days after you start feeling sick. Kids may be able to spread the virus for even longer, until all of their symptoms fade."
Look at the sentence you posted. You are contagious for one day before you have symptoms and then you are contagious until all the symptoms go away. Usually the sick day that you stay at home for is the second day of seven. So really, you should stay out for the week. But 24 hours is a nice compromise.
Also, how do you know they influenza and not something else?
And as to mutation, you're right, they don't actually mutate. But what happens is the weaker bacteria/virus will not affect you but will affect your child. After a while, the child starts to kill off the weaker ones and then the concentration of strong ones increase, and those are the ones that neither you nor your child can fight, and that's when adults get sick too.
Most laymen call that mutation which isn't correct, but it's still correct to say that the bacteria/virus that are stronger increase their concentration in the child until it is potent enough to infect the adult too.
>And as to mutation, you're right, they don't actually mutate. But what happens is the weaker bacteria/virus will not affect you but will affect your child. After a while, the child starts to kill off the weaker ones and then the concentration of strong ones increase, and those are the ones that neither you nor your child can fight, and that's when adults get sick too.
The disease they bring home may be something you were exposed to but it will ~~mutate~~ grow stronger in the child as the weak ones are killed off and infect you anyway.
And there is a reason you can't come back for 24 hours. Many diseases are still contagious after your symptoms have cleared. If you throw up and feel better, it doesn't mean the disease is now gone.
So please respect the science and herd mentality and keep sick kids away from kids and adults for at least 24 hours after symptoms subside, or at least make sure the other adults are explicitly ok with you being around them.