Here are some general guidelines to help you know if your child should be kept home or return to school:
- If your child is contagious to other children
- If your child is too uncomfortable to learn or participate in learning
- Unusually tired, pale or irritable with a fever
- Temperature of 100 degrees or higher
- Must be fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medicines, such as Tylenol or ibuprofen (i.e. Motrin or Advil) in order to return to school
- Frequent diarrhea
- Eye drainage, redness and/or itching
- Body or local rash especially with itching, red bumps, discharge
- Swollen neck glands and/or white areas on throat, especially with fever