Cold and flu season can be challenging. Here are some guidelines from Attendance Works for parents about when to send students to school and when to keep them home:
- Send to school if:
- your child has a runny nose or just a little cough, but no other symptoms
- your child hasn’t taken any fever-reducing medicine for 24 hours and hasn’t had a fever during that time.
- your child hasn’t thrown up or had any diarrhea for 24 hours.
- Keep student home if:
- your child has a temperature higher than 100 degrees even after taking medicine
- your child is throwing up or has diarrhea
- your child’s eyes are pink and crusty
- Call the doctor if:
- your child has a temperature higher than 100 degrees for more than two days
- your child has been throwing up or has had diarrhea for more than two days
- your child still has asthma symptoms after using asthma medicine (call 911 if your child is having trouble breathing after using an inhaler)