Guidelines to Follow When Your Child is Sick

Guidelines

If someone has the following symptoms, they should stay home because their illness could affect their ability to participate in school, and there is concern that they might spread an infection to staff and students.

• Fever, including a fever with a new rash.
• Vomiting more than twice in the preceding 24 hours.
• Diarrhea that causes ‘accidents’, is bloody, or results in greater than two bowel movements above what the child normally experiences in a 24-hour period.
• Skin sores that are draining fluid on an uncovered part of the body and are unable to be covered with a bandage.
• Respiratory virus symptoms that are worsening or not improving and not better explained by another cause such as seasonal allergies.