Mayfield Schools Health Services
To help prevent the spread of communicable disease
in our schools, it is important that all parent/guardians adhere to the
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PROMOTE HANDWASHING in your family. It is the single best way to prevent the
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If you work during the
day, please make plans in advance for who will care for your child if he/she is
sick and needs to stay home or who will pick him up should he become ill while
at school.
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Keep your child home if
any of the following should occur:
o
Vomiting
within the previous 24 hours – even if they are “feeling better”
o
Diarrhea
within the previous 24 hours – even if they are “feeling better”
o
Temperature
of 100° or higher within the previous 24 hours
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(do
not administer medication to reduce/prevent fever and send the child to school)o
Awaiting
24-hour throat culture for “strep” – regardless of a negative rapid test
o
Positive
rapid “strep” test or throat culture (the student may return to school 24 hours
after first dose of antibiotics)
o
Any
symptoms of a new illness such as a persistent cough, runny nose with body
aches, severe ear pain, oozing rash or rash of unknown cause
o
Conjunctivitis
– red, itching, draining eye/s – requires a physician note or 24 hours of
antibiotic therapy and no longer draining
o
Lice
or nits in the hair
o
Undiagnosed
rash
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- Your child should look and feel
back-to-normal for 24 hours before returning to school. WHY???
- To protect your child from exposure
to more infection before he is able to build resistance.
- To protect other children and school staff
from communicable diseases that your child may transmit.
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Thank you from all the Mayfield staff for
respecting the above guidelines so we can minimize contagious illnesses in our
schools!