Illness

Please contact school nurse if your child is sick or there is any changes in their health history

Student Illness

Do not send your child to school if he or she is ill. Staying home to get the proper rest, nutrition, and parental care is for your child’s benefit as well as for the benefit of the other children in the school who may be unnecessarily exposed to a contagious illness. The following are examples of when a student should remain home:

• A temperature greater than or equal to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The student must be fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medication for 24 hours (a complete school day) before returning to school.

• Actively vomiting or has diarrhea.

• An illness which presents with contagious symptoms.

• Other symptoms interfering with learning or participation such as abdominal pain; ear ache; itchy, painful eyes; light-sensitivity; or profuse discharge from the eyes necessitating frequent wiping.

• Severe uncontrolled coughing or wheezing, rapid or difficult breathing, coughing lasting longer than five to seven days.

• Episodes of vomiting in the past 24 hours. A student must remain home until vomiting resolves (no further vomiting for 24 hours).

• Frequent loose or watery stools compared to the student’s normal pattern; not caused by diet or medication. A student must remain home if a) he/she looks or acts ill; b) he/she has diarrhea with temperature elevation of 100°F or greater; and c) he/she has diarrhea and vomiting.

• Blister-like lesions (impetigo, including streptococci, staphylococcus, and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections) that develop into pustules with weeping and crusting. A student must be medically evaluated, remain home for at least 24 hours after initiation of medical treatment, and remain home until determined not infectious by a medical provider. Lesions must be covered for school attendance.

• Ringworm lesions must be covered for school attendance.

• Thick discharge from eye, necessitating frequent wiping and may be accompanied by pain, redness to the white part of the eye, and light sensitivity. Student must remain at home until symptoms clear or completion of 24 hours of medical provider-prescribed ophthalmic treatment.

• Measles, mumps, rubella, (German measles), chicken pox, pertussis (whooping cough), and influenza. A student must remain home until determined not infectious by medical care provider.

If your child becomes ill during the school day, the school nurse will contact you to pick up your child. To return to school, your child must be without symptoms for 24 hours and fever-free without fever-reducing medications for at least 24 hours.