<p>When my daughter had mono, the Dr. told us that by the time the symptoms show up and it is diagnosed it is usually no longer contagious. I would check with the Dr. , but if she is feeling OK, she can probably go.</p>
<p>My d had contracted mono at the end of the school year two summers ago - became symptomatic just before the 4th of July. She had to greatly reduce her hours of dancing for about two weeks. What I remember was most important, was attention to the spleen w/regard to physical activity.</p>
<p>If she’s up to it, I say let her go, but every kid is so different with mono, some relapse every time they try to ramp up their activity.</p>
<p>Please look at the bright side. She is not getting mono at college with midterms and final exams to study for…this happened to our son, bye bye 5 grand for a class he had to withdraw from etc </p>
<p>It took him forever to get his sleeping patterns back into a good body clock cycle. Troubled as he was by insistence on having an overly full social life in dorms and with difficulty sleeping on a schedule that made sense. Hopefully she has immunity now</p>
<p>Yes, it would have been worse in college, or during senior week, or at graduation/open house time. Dr. said she’d take another look at her on Friday afternoon. If the symptoms are better, she’ll let her go. I’ll be sure and get a note, in case there are any issues at prom. Technically, she’s not allowed to participate in a school activities if she hasn’t been at school, but I think they’d be willing to cut her some slack in this case.</p>
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<p>That’s probably a wise policy. Otherwise, half the class would be out “sick” but show up to the prom with brand new manicures and/or beautiful new highlights.</p>
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<p>Well I’m guessing that must have happened at some point in time because the Friday of prom is always a shortened school day!</p>
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<p>D got mono 2nd semester freshman year of college. Yes, she was tired, cranky, and now realizes she was a bit mean to her friends due to exhaustion. The most important thing for me was the possibility of her spleen rupturing. She rows crew, so they had her off the water for a month, but who knows how long it had been before she was diagnosed! The campus clinic doctor told her if an oar were to hit her in the abdomen, it could have been fatal. I don’t know if he was just trying to scare her into following his orders, but it sure scared me!</p>
<p>To the OP, unless she is in the fever phase, I don’t think she can infect the school. If it were my D, I would try to have her go to prom, even if only for an hour or two. Those are memories she can’t redo.</p>