Is My Child Too Sick To Go To School? A common dilemma that parents face is “when should I keep my child home from school?” It’s not easy as parents more and more today are juggling the responsibilities of family and work. Here are some guidelines to follow.
Keep your child home from school if:
- They have a fever. This means a temperature of 100.0 degrees or higher.
- They have vomited. Keep your child home until they are symptom free for 24 hours and able to tolerate solid foods.
- They have diarrhea. Encourage good hand washing to prevent the spread to other family members. Keep your child home until they are symptom free for 24 hours and able to tolerate solid foods.
- They are coughing frequently or having any sort of breathing trouble.
- They have a rash that is spreading. Check with your child’s doctor to see if it is contagious before sending your child back to school.
In order to help prevent the spread of illness in school, students with a fever of 100.0 degrees or more may not return to school until they are fever free for 24 hrs without the use of fever reducing medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
Please remind your children to wash their hands frequently, and cover their cough into their arms or a Kleenex if they need to cough. With our windy cold weather approaching, it would be helpful to send your child with lip balm such as ChapStick, and/or even a small tube of Vaseline.
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