illness and sick policy
Please do not send your child to Preschool if he/she has any of the following:
Conditions for Exclusion from Preschool
Conditions for Returning to Preschool
1. Auxiliary (armpit) temperature off 100°F or higher.
1. Free of fever for 24 hours without a use of fever reducing medicine.
2. Symptoms and signs of possible illness such as headache, coughing, irritability, persistent crying, difficulty breathing, wheezing, unusual lethargy, or other unusual signs. 3. Diarrhea (two watery stools in a 4-hour period or one large volume watery stool mixed with blood).
2. Symptom free or physician’s written approval to return.
3. Free of diarrhea for 24 hours and able to take food.
4. Vomiting, upset stomach with more than just “spitting up.”
4. Free of upset stomach and vomiting for 24 hours and able to take food.
5. Yellowish tint to skin or eyes and/or unusually dark, tea-colored urine.
5. Symptom free or physician’s written approval to return.
6. Red, watery, or draining eye(s).
6. All discharge from the eye(s) has stopped or physician’s written approval to return.
7. Severe itching of the body or scalp and/or constantly scratching the head (i.e. lice).
7. After treatment, including free of lice and nits.
8. Infected areas of the skin with crusty, yellow, gummy dry area or rash. (i.e. impetigo, chicken pox, or ring worm)
8. Skin sores are healed or 24 hours after treatment has started or physician’s written approval to return.
9. Mouth sores with excessive drooling.
9. Physician’s written approval to return.
10. Rash with fever or behavior change.
10. Physician’s written approval to return.
11. Known contagious disease while in communicable stage.
11. Physician’s written approval to return.
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