"Is he/she really sick?"
Read below to find out if you need to keep your child home from school...
Keep Your Child Home From School If:
- Their temperature 100.5 or higher (keep at home until fever-free for 24 hours)
- They have a rash with fever or behavior change (until seen by a doctor)
- Their illness that prevents the child from participating comfortably in program
activities
- They have difficulty breathing or other signs of serious illness
- They have diarrhea that cannot be contained or has blood/mucus in it
- They are vomiting two or more times in previous 24 hours
- They have pink eye with discharge (until seen by doctor)
- They have strep throat (until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started)
- They have head lice ( until after treatment is completed and free of live bugs)
- They have scabies (until after treatment is completed)
- They have chicken pox (until the sixth day of onset of the rash or sooner if all sores are
dried and crusted)