How sick is too sick to go to work or school?

Answer 1

This is often a really tricky call to make. You don’t want to miss important information or let work pile up in your absence, but you also don’t want to get others sick.

However, when a fever is involved, the choice is simple: Stay home. You should wait at least 24 hours after the fever’s gone before returning to the outside world. This can be especially helpful in preventing the spread of seasonal flu.

Other symptoms tend to have more wiggle room, and the choice often ends up being a complicated dance of trying to balance how important it is to be there, how contagious you are, how flexible your work or school is, and how much your symptoms would impact your quality of work.

Answer 2

I think that if you feel really dizzy, stay at home. This is because if you are in secondary school or work in a building with a lot of stairs, then you can lose your footing on the way down if you feel exceptionally dizzy at that point in time. Another reason for this is because being dizzy will completely throw of your concentration levels and you will fail to work.

Answer 3

First thought is probably something contagious, aka like an outbreak of the flu that you could pass on. But if it is just a cough or a cold then you should be fine. If your trying to miss school though, I totally understand why.

Answer 4

When you are too sick to go to work and school is by throwing up or saying you dont feel good and call in and just go to the doctor and get an check up and get 2 copies of it and take one to school and work and then that how you do it . Even when you play sick you can use this advice its very good advice to me if you want to have free time or some relaxtion time.....

Answer 5

When considering how sick a person Hass to be to stay home from work or school, a person has to consider how contagious they are and how they present the impact on other people in the work environment.

Answer 6

I recently came down with quite a bout of bronchitis. For most of it, I ran no fever, but the coughing and hacking I was experiencing, reinforced to me that this was one thing I didn't want to share with anyone!

I know, the "rule" is, if you don't have a fever, you can go to work or school. The reality is that you are still spewing that bacteria- or virus-ridden vapor into the air as you cough or sneeze, and your productivity would be markedly reduced if you spent a lot of time washing your hands (or applying hand sanitizer), after having covered your cough or sneeze, or blown your nose.

Aches and pains, in and of themselves, are little to no reason to miss work. Generally, as you prepare for work, most of the "sleepytime" aches and pains disappear, of go down the drain as you shower in the morning.

That doesn't mean that you don't check out a pain so serious that it "stops you in your tracks." I had such a pain, and it turned out to be a hernia. You do not need to be taken by ambulance from your workplace, because you thought it would go away.

These are the standards that I personally go by, and I do not abuse them. A word of warning, though: If you are too sick to go to work or school, then you are too sick to be doing things away from home, or even outside your house. If you're too sick to go in, you're too sick to weed your garden, mow your lawn or clean your gutters. Sick days are for you to seek medical attention, if need be, and get better.

Answer 7

symptoms like runny nose, fever, headache, coughing, or sore throat? Maybe you have Back pain or a sinus infection and are wondering if you're too sick to go to work or school. How can you decide whether you or your child is better off trying to work (or go to school) or taking a sick day?First and foremost, consider whether you are putting yourself or others at risk if you go to work. You're putting others at risk if you or your children have a contagious illness (more on that later). You're putting yourself at risk if the symptoms of your condition, or the side effects of medication, could cause you to have an accident on the job, injure others, or produce devastating mistakes in your work product. Putting anyone in harm's way is a clear reason to stay home.Obviously going to work when you or your children can make others ill is not a good idea. Regarding contagious illnesses, many school systems have a "fever rule." Any child who is out sick must be fever-free for at least 24 hours before returning to school. This rule is designed to keep those with contagious illnesses away from others, and it is likely a good way to ensure that kids with the flu, strep throat, or other serious infections don't spread the germs to others. Applying the fever rule will only work in certain situations, however. What about infections that may easily spread to others but don't necessarily cause a fever? Contagious conditions that don't cause fever include the common cold, pinkeye, earache, and gastroenteritis.

Answer 8

I'm rarely too sick to go to work. However there have been days when I feel too good to go to work!

Answer 9

Runny nose, sneezing, coughing, fever... Sometimes, it's "hay fever" or Allergies. Or symptoms of a "cold."

Answer 10

I say you need to take off when you cant make it out of bed with a fever and then you have to make your way to the doctor so you can get better as fast as you can