HEALTH INFORMATION 

    Students will be given temporary care in the event of illness or injury during the school hours.  If your child has a medical problem, please make sure that the school is informed.  It is important that correct telephone numbers (home, work, mobile, pager, and emergency) are on file in the office and health room.

   The following guidelines should be used to help determine when your child should stay home from school due to illness.  These guidelines will also help the nurse decide when to send the student home from school.

·  Temperature of 100.4 or above  (measure when no anti-fever medication given)

  (exclude until fever subsides; recommend that a student be fever-free for 24 hours before readmission.)

·  Undetermined rash (recommend exclusion and readmit after rash is gone or with approval of physician)

·  Ringworm of the scalp (exclude and readmit after treatment has begun)

·  Diarrhea

·  Vomiting two or more times in 24 hours (unless a physician feels the cause of vomiting is not an infectious disease or child is in no danger of becoming dehydrated)

·  Red eyes with discharge or crusting around eyes (may exclude and readmit after effective medical treatment and approval of physician)

·  Live head lice (exclude and readmit after one effective treatment has been given)

·  Jaundice

·  Communicable diseases listed by Department of State Health Services. 

There will be no medication of any kind given to the student unless there is written authorization from the parent, signed and dated.  All prescription drugs must be in the original prescription bottle with instructions on the label.  All other medications must be in the original container as well as accompanied by a parent note with complete instructions for proper and safe administration. Dose and frequency cannot exceed package directions without a physician’s order. Medications that will be given for more than 5 days must also have a written physician’s order.  All medications must be stored and dispensed from the health room. Parents must give written permission for the student to transport medication to and from school.   

   ALL IMMUNIZATIONS SHOULD BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO ENROLLMENT.  A list of required immunizations can be obtained from your school nurse or from the LISD website at www.lisd.net.  Click on Departments and then click on Student Health Services to find a link to the immunization website through the Department of State Health Services.  Please refer specific questions to your campus nurse. Students will be screened for vision, hearing, spinal, and acanthosis nigricans at scheduled intervals.  

   If your child cannot participate in PE or is unable to go outside during recess, a note must be sent to the homeroom teacher stating restrictions and the number of days for the restriction.  If restricted for more than three days in a row, a doctor’s excuse may be necessary.