HCPS Illness Protocol
You need to keep your child at home if they have any of the following symptoms:
- Fever with a temperature of 100 degrees or higher.
- Vomiting or diarrhea in the last 24 hours.
- Cough that produces mucus that is not clear in color, and/or cough that sounds like a bark or is accompanied by a sore throat or wheezing.
- Rash that blisters, develops pus, blisters or is uncomfortable.
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye): your child has red, itchy eyes with yellow to greenish “pus like” drainage, eyes are crusted over upon waking in the morning or continue to crust throughout the day.
When can your child return to school:
- 24 hours after their last episode of vomiting
- 24 hours after their last episode of diarrhea.
- When they have been fever free (less than 100), WITHOUT the use of fever reducing medication, for 24 hours.
- When they have been seen by a medical doctor and a note is brought to school stating clearance to return to school and listing any restriction
Please contact the school every day that your child is absent.
Thank you for helping us keep all of our children at school as healthy as possible.
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