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Illness Guidelines
Illness Guidelines
If your child has been ill they must be free from fever, vomiting or diarrhea for 24 hours without medication before returning to school. Please call the nurse in your student's building with any questions. For further guidance please consult your child's school handbook health section. These can be found on the Olympia website.
An illness is considered significant if:
● A rash is present that has not been evaluated by a physician.
● Your child’s temperature is 100.0 degrees or higher, or 1 to 2 degrees above the child’s normal temperature. A child with such a fever should remain home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal (without the use of fever-reducing medicine).
● Your child vomits and continues to experience nausea and/or vomiting and/or diarrhea. A child with persistent vomiting/diarrhea should remain home for 24 hours after the symptoms stop.
● Your child complains of severe, persistent pain. The symptom should be referred to a physician for evaluation.
● Your child shows signs of upper respiratory infection (coughing, wheezing or other) serious enough to interfere with the child’s ability to learn.
● There are signs of conjunctivitis (“pinkeye”) with drainage/matter coming from one or both eyes, itching, and/or crusts on eyelids. The child should be evaluated by a physician.
● There are open sores that have not been evaluated by a physician.
Lice Guidelines
Evidence based practices from the Illinois Department of Public Health, Center for Disease Control and American Pediatric Association recommendations
Current practices included and recommended:
• In home screening of family members and close contacts
• No regular screenings or rechecks in schools
• No notification of classmate parents
• Notification of parent (of affected child)
Outdated practices no longer recommended:
• Classroom wide screening if one student has head lice
• Notes home to parents of classmates
• Immediate exclusion for infestation
• Nit-free policies
More Lice Information for parents can be found here.
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