Illness and School?
Happy Holidays - including the cold/flu season! Here are guidelines from our school nurse about keeping kids home from school.
GUIDELINES FOR EXCLUDING A STUDENT FROM SCHOOL
1. Temperature 100.0 or higher (keep at home until fever-free for 24 hours.)
2. Rash with fever or behavior change (until seen by a doctor.)
3. Illness that prevents the child from participating comfortably in program
activities.
4. Difficulty breathing or other signs of serious illness.
5. Diarrhea that cannot be contained or has blood/mucus in it. Vomiting two or
more times in previous 24 hours.
6. Pink eye with discharge (until seen by a doctor.)
7. Strep throat (until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.)
8. Head lice (has separate educational resource.)
9. Scabies (until after treatment is complete.)
10. Chicken pox (until the sixth day of onset of the rash or sooner if all sores are
dried and crusted.)
11. Flu (per physician recommendation.)
12. Impetigo (until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.)
GUIDELINES FOR EXCLUDING A STUDENT FROM SCHOOL
1. Temperature 100.0 or higher (keep at home until fever-free for 24 hours.)
2. Rash with fever or behavior change (until seen by a doctor.)
3. Illness that prevents the child from participating comfortably in program
activities.
4. Difficulty breathing or other signs of serious illness.
5. Diarrhea that cannot be contained or has blood/mucus in it. Vomiting two or
more times in previous 24 hours.
6. Pink eye with discharge (until seen by a doctor.)
7. Strep throat (until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.)
8. Head lice (has separate educational resource.)
9. Scabies (until after treatment is complete.)
10. Chicken pox (until the sixth day of onset of the rash or sooner if all sores are
dried and crusted.)
11. Flu (per physician recommendation.)
12. Impetigo (until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.)
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