Reasons to keep your child at home

 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