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Reasons to keep your child at home

Reasons to keep your child at home

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

  • 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.
  • Rash:
    • if the cause is unknown please check with your physician before sending your child to school

Specific Considerations:

  • Conjunctivitis:

    • 24 hours after treatment has begun and/or discharge has ceased
  • 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