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Helpful Guidelines
Fever: This is an important sign of illness. Your child should be kept at home until they are fever free for 24 hours.
Sore Throat: When accompanied by a high fever, this may indicate strep throat.
Diarrhea & Vomiting: Both make children very uncomfortable. They should be kept out of school until the illness passes.
Chickenpox: A very uncomfortable and highly contagious viral disease. The symptoms include fever, itching, and pink or red watery spots. Please notify the school and keep your child at home until the spots dry up.
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye): Usually cause by a virus, it is very contagious and uncomfortable. Some of the signs include burning and itching of the eye and a discharge (yellow-white) especially in the morning. Your child needs to be kept at home until they have been on antibiotics for 24 hours.
Bad Cough: This can indicate a variety of illnesses from a common cold to bronchitis or pneumonia. Whooping Cough has been reported in New Hampshire...it is important for you to know the symptoms. They are an irritating, hacking cough that may progress to spasmodic and recurrent coughing spells accompanied by thick mucus. Whooping Cough is highly contagious and needs to be reported to the school nurse.
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