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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:
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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
- A Fever of 100 degrees or more: