- Forsyth Central High
- When to Stay Home
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It is always our goal to keep our students and staff as healthy as possible and we rely on our students’ families to create a healthy learning environment!
Guidance Related to Viruses and Infections
Students MUST stay home or will be sent home if they have:
- A temperature that is 100.4 or higher
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Vomiting in the last 24 hours
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Diarrhea in the last 24 hours
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Arash with itching or fever
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Bacterial pink eye (red or pink watery eyes that may have white or yellow discharge)
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Strep throat
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Ring worm (may return after 24 hours of treatment and area must be covered with a bandage while in school until area is resolved).
- Chicken pox (must stay home until all lesions have crusted over
- A frequent, persistent, and disruptive cough
- Frequent or persistent complaints of pain/discomfort
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On antibiotic for contagious symptoms less than 24 hours
- They need to be seen by a physician
Your child may return to school when:
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No fever of 100 degrees or greater for 24 hours without fever reducing medicine.
- Diarrhea and/or vomiting must have stopped for a full 24 hours without the aid of medication before returning to school.
If your child has seen a physician and he has ordered antibiotics, please keep your child home for 24 hours after the antibiotics have been started.