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Yes. You have the flu. Don’t feel guilty on top of everything else. Stay in, drink fluids and please don’t infect your classmates with your yucky virus. Hope you’re feeling better soon.</p>
<p>Once you have a fever, stay home. It’s selfish to go to class when you’re sick. You’re just going to be spreading germs around. </p>
<p>We have fliers all over campus and my jobs that say “Just stay home.” (If you have x, y, or z.)</p>
<p>How are folks are connecting “fever” with contagion? Is that a thing? If you take ibuprifen and DON’T have a fever, would you be less contagious?</p>
<p>Sorry OP, I have no advice for you.</p>
<p>NJSue: A good student could miss 10 classes and barely feel it. Such students know how to open the textbook and teach themselves. I would hope that less gifted students would be given a chance to catch up.</p>
<p>shrink, generally a fever signals a contagious point of an infection. Is the OP necessarily contagious? No, but given his/her symptoms it is highly likely.</p>
<p>When you have a fever, your body is generally fighting something. That something is very likely contagious.</p>
<p>“generally a fever signals a contagious point of an infection.*”</p>
<p>I see. I am not familiar with that.Certainly fits with the elemntary school rules. </p>
<p>“When you have a fever, your body is generally fighting something.*”</p>
<p>That, I’m familiar with! </p>
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<p>Fever correlates well with contagion in most viral illnesses, because fever is seen within the first few days when virus counts are highest. People with cold viruses usually spread them by depositing viral particles on surfaces that other people then pick up on their hands and transfer to their faces, but flu travels a few feet through the air. So if OP has flu, going to a lecture class would be an excellent way to pass it on to at least a half dozen people. Flu is more likely to cause a true fever of 101 or more than colds are. So staying home with a fever is a good idea. Also, you’re just not worth much when you’re feverish. I tried going to work once with a fever (wearing a mask so that I wouldn’t share what I had). I lasted a half-day before I realized I wasn’t doing anybody any good.</p>
<p>Please don’t go to class and put other people at risk of catching what you have. Nausea is an absolute don’t-go-to-class symptom. If you insist, at least wear a mask and wash your hands thoroughly before you touch anything around you.</p>
<p>granipc, I’m afraid I don’t understand your post.
Given the nature of this forum, I am assuming the Op is in college.
You give advice based on what teachers do to pre-school children.
I may be missing something, but I’m not sure pre-school rules and policies also apply to young adults.</p>
<p>I just can’t imagine any university where you could miss 10 days of class and be ok?</p>
<p>10 classes would be 1/3 of a semester for a typical class at this U. </p>
<p>I’m thinking she has to be referring to K-12.</p>