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Reasons to keep your children home

  • Reasons to keep your child home include but are not limited to:Image

    A Fever of 100 degrees or more:
    • keep your child home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal (98.6) without the use of fever reducing medication.
    Vomiting or Diarrhea: 
    • keep your child home for a minimum of 24 hours after the last episode.

     

    Specific Considerations:

    Conjunctivitis:
    • 24 hours after treatment has begun.
    Impetigo:
    • 24 hours after treatment has begun.
    • Open lesions must be covered. If lesions cannot be covered, student must be excluded until lesions are closed and dry
    Head Lice:
    • after treatment is completed and no live lice are found
    Strep Throat
    • 24 hours after starting antibiotic treatment
    Ring Worm:
    • after treatment is started and any lesions must be covered
    • Rash:
      • if the cause is unknown please check with your physician before sending your child to school