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Should Your Child Attend School?
The suggestions below are for children 5 to 18 years of age. Recommendations may be different for infants and younger children.
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
The white of the eye is pink; there may or may not be a thick yellow/green discharge.
NO – if there is discharge from the eye, your child must be evaluated by a healthcare provider before returning to school.
Fever
Fever usually means illness, especially if your child has a fever of 100.4 or high-and is not feeling well with other symptoms such as behavior change, rash, sore throat, vomiting etc.
NO – If your child has a temperature of 100.4 or higher, keep him or her at home until his or her fever is below 100.4 for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication. If the fever does not go away after 2-3 days or is 102.0 or higher, you should consult a health care provider.
Diarrhea
Frequent, loose, or watery stool may mean illness but can also be caused by food and medication
NO – If, in addition to diarrhea, your child acts ill, or is vomiting, it is recommended to keep him or her at home for 24 hours. If stool is bloody, or if the child has abdominal pain, fever or vomiting, you should consult a health care provider.
Vomiting
Child has vomited.
NO – If your child shows other signs of illness, keep your child at home until the vomiting has stopped for 24 hours. If vomiting continues, contact a health care provider.
YES- if vomiting is due to motion sickness, vigorous activity, overeating or eating too fast, or heat.
Coughing
Severe, uncontrolled, rapid coughing, wheezing, or difficulty breathing
NO – Keep your child home and contact a health care provider. If symptoms are due to asthma, provide treatment according to your child’s physician/healthcare provider. When your child does not need to use his or her inhaler or medication more frequently than every 4 hours, or as ordered, he or she may return to school.
Rash
NO –If a rash spreads quickly, is not healing, or has open weeping wounds you should keep your child at home and have him or her seen by a health care provider. Your child may return to school if health care provider states child is not contagious
YES -If the cause of the rash is known, please notify the School Public Health Nurse, School Health Aide and school staff.
Strep Throat
Sore throat, fever, stomach ache, and red, swollen tonsils
Strep throat should be diagnosed by the health care provider.
NO - If your child is diagnosed with strep throat, keep your child at home for the first 24 hours after an antibiotic is begun.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Chicken Pox - fever, headache, stomach ache or sore throat, then a red itchy skin rash develops on the stomach first then limbs and face.
Measles & Rubella (German Measles) – swollen glands, rash that starts behind ears followed by the face and the rest of the body, sore joints, mild fever and cough, red eyes
Mumps – fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, swollen tender salivary glands
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) – many rapid coughs followed by a high-pitched "whoop," vomiting, very tired
NO – Keep your child at home until a health care provider has determined that your child is not contagious.
Please refer to the attached link for more detailed information:
https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/HealthFlyerforParents.pdf
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