When to stay home
- Illness
When to stay home
General Stay Home Guidelines for Illness:
Your student should stay home if they have:
- COVID-19 symptoms
- Fever of 100 degrees F within the last 24 hours, without the use of fever reducing medication ("Tylenol" or ibuprofen type medicines)
- Diarrhea or vomiting within the last 24 hours
- Uncontrolled cough
- Mucus/sputum that is green or yellow and cannot be contained
- Strep (may return to school 12 hours after start of antibiotic)
- Chicken pox (may return when pox are crusted over)
- An open wound that cannot be covered
Contagious Diseases
Please inform the health office if your child has been diagnosed by a physician with any highly contagious disease. The information will be kept confidential, but it is important to prevent the spread of disease. Contact Health office for:
- Strep
- Chicken pox or shingles
- Fifth's disease
- Head lice, even after treatment
- Influenza
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Impetigo
- An open wound that cannot be covered
- B2S
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