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Health Office Information

• Fever – if your child has a temperature of 100.0 or greater, you should not send your child to school. Children must be fever free, without medication, for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Vomiting/Diarrhea – If your child is vomiting or has diarrhea, your child should stay home. Children should be kept home for a minimum of 24 hours after diarrhea or vomiting. 
• Flu – If your child is diagnosed with the flu, please contact the school nurse. Your child can return to school once symptoms have resolved and they have been fever free for 24 hours without medication.
• Strep Throat – Children diagnosed with strep may return to school after 24 hours of antibiotics and improvement in symptoms. 
• Conjunctivitis (pink-eye) – Children diagnosed with pink eye may return to school after 24 hours of antibiotics and improvement in symptoms. 
• COVID – 19 – If your child is diagnosed with COVID-19, please contact your school nurse.
• An upper respiratory illness with significant coughing and/or nasal discharge.

Parents/Guardians are also encouraged to contact the health office for any questions, concerns and specifically for the for the following reasons: 

• New medical diagnosis or a change in your child’s health status.
• Newly prescribed medications or a change in a current medication.
• Serious injury, illness, or hospitalization.
• Fracture, sprain, stitches, or cast.
• A contagious disease such as chicken pox, flu, strep throat, whooping cough, covid-19.
• If your child is absent for an extended period of time.
• If there are recent changes in your family that may affect your child, such as a birth, recent loss, or sudden illness.