Guidance Related to Virus and Infections

Students MUST stay home or will be sent home if they have:

• A temperature that is 100.4 or higher
• Vomiting in the last 24 hours
• Diarrhea in the last 24 hours
• A rash with itching or fever
• Bacterial pink eye (red or pink watery eyes that may have white or yellow discharge)
• Strep throat
• 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
• On antibiotic for contagious symptoms less than 24 hours
• They need to be seen by a physician

Your child may return to school when:

• 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.