When to Keep Your Child Home from School
- School Health Policies
When to Keep Your Child Home from School
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a student be kept home from school if any of the following conditions exist:
- Signs of severe illness, including fever, irritability, difficulty breathing, crying that doesn't stop with the usual comforting or extreme sleepiness.
- Diarrhea or stools that contain blood or mucus.
- Vomiting and diarrhea two or more times in 24 hours unless a physician feels the cause of vomiting is not an infectious disease, and writes a note to that effect and the student is no longer in danger of becoming dehydrated and must be able to self-care for diarrhea.
- Mouth sores and/or drooling until a physician or the health department does not feel the condition is infectious.
- Fever or rash or a change in behavior until a physician has determined that the problem is not caused by an infectious disease.
- AEC
- K-3
- OSHS
- OSMS
- OSUE