The following information is designed to offer guidance regarding when to send your children to school and when to keep them home due to illness. They are meant to benefit your child and the health and well being of the Concordia community. These are also conditions for which your child may be sent home from school.

If you are unsure of which action you should take, please contact your doctor or school nurse at 5899 0380, ext. 1030, 1031.

Fever

• Normal temperature is 98.6 F (37 C).
• A fever is a warning that all is not right within the body. The best way to check for fever is with a thermometer, which every home should have. No child with a temperature equal to or above 99.8 F (37.5 C) should be sent to school. A child needs to be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school and all students with a fever must report to the Nurse’s Office before returning to their classroom.

Cold, Sore Throat, Cough

• A child with a “mild” cold, but otherwise feeling well, may go to school.
• A child with a “heavy” cold and a hacking or productive cough belongs at home even if there is no fever.
• A child complaining of a mild sore throat with no other symptoms, may go to school. If white spots can be seen in the back of the throat, or if fever present, keep the child at home.

Stomach Ache, Vomiting, Diarrhea

• Consult your doctor if your child has a stomachache or abdominal pains which are persistent or severe enough to limit the child’s activity.
• If vomiting occurs, keep your child home until the child can keep food down.
• A child with diarrhea should be kept home.

Pain

• Toothache – contact your dentist
• Earache – consult your doctor
• Headache – a child whose only complaint is a minor headache usually need not be kept home. Frequent or persistent headaches may indicate a serious health problem.

Eye Redness

• Consult your doctor if your child has eye redness, itching, and increased drainage or pus.  See conjunctivitis below.  It is very contagious!
• Student will be sent home/must stay home until they have received 24 hours of antibiotic eye drop treatment.

Rash

• Rash or spots may cover the entire body or appear in only one area.
• Call you physician or school nurse if you are uncertain about whether to send your child to school with a rash.

The information provided is not intended as a substitute for appropriate medical intervention. If your child is kept home from school, please call your school secretary to notify them of the absence.  For further questions please contact a school nurse at 5899 0380, ext. 1030, 1031.

Contagious Conditions

Any student found to have any of the contagious conditions listed below will be sent home.  For detailed information regarding response to contagious conditions refer to Notification of Health Concerns in the right hand column of this page. Parents should notify the Nurse’s Office when a student has a contagious condition.  Please call: 5899 0380, ext. 1030, 1031.