How to decide if your child should stay home from school

• What do you do? How do you make the right decision?
• If your child complains of a sore throat and has no other symptoms, your child may go to school. If white spots can be seen in the back of the throat or a fever is present, keep your child home and call your doctor.
• A fever is a warning sign that all is not right with the body.   The best way to check for fever is with a thermometer, which every home should have. No child with a temperature over 100 should be sent to school.
• Do not return your child to school until the child has been fever free for 24 hours without the use of any over the counter fever reducers.
  
• If vomiting or diarrhea occurs, keep your child home until the vomiting and/or diarrhea has stopped for 24 hours without the assistance of over the counter medications.
• Conjunctivitis (pink eye)- your child should remain home until given the antibiotic eye drops for 24 hours and no drainage in eye.
  
• It is also a good idea to keep your child home if there is a persistent wet cough, even without the presence of fever.
• If your child has lice they must also stay home until they are lice and nit free.