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Illness Reference Guide

Illness Stay Home or Go to School Details
Chicken Pox Home Children with chicken pox must stay home from school until all spots are dried and crusted, usually 5-6 days.
Cold with mild symptoms (stuffy nose, sneezing, mild cough) School Your child may attend school if he/she is fever free for 24 hours and is able to participate in school activities.
Cough Home If the cough is persistent and irritating, it is disruptive to learning.
Covid Home Staff and students may return to school once they have been fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours and their symptoms have been improving for 24 hours. Wearing a mask for 5 days following their return to school is optional.
Diarrhea Home Students should be kept home for 24 hours after the last episode of diarrhea without the use of medicine.
Fever Home Students should stay home if temperature is 100.4 degrees or more. Keep home until fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medicine.
Fifth Disease School By the time the rash appears, children are no longer contagious and do not need to stay home.
Flu/Influenza Home Return to school once fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours and symptoms have been improving for 24 hours.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Home Return to school when they are 24 hours fever-free (without fever-reducing medications), do not have open oozing blisters, feel well enough to participate and, if mouth sores are present, do not have uncontrolled drooling.
Head Lice Home Students may return after their hair has been treated with a pediculicidal agent, i.e. Nix.
Impetigo Home Students may return to school 24 hours after treatment starts. Sores should be covered at school.
Ringworm School Students may come to school as long as the area is being treated and is covered.
Strep Throat Home Students may return to school 24 hours after antibiotics have started and the temperature is less than 100.4 degrees.
Vomiting Home Students should be kept home for 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting associated with gastrointestinal illness without the use of medicine.

Attention

If a student is sent home from school with a temperature, vomiting, or diarrhea, they must remain home until they have been symptom-free for 24 hours without medication.