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We, as school nurses, try to keep our school environment as healthy as possible. We can only do this with your help. These exclusions are an effort to control the spread of communicable diseases/illnesses to both students and staff.  The following is a guide as to when to keep your child home from school. A child who is ill or not feeling well cannot benefit from the usual school activities.

 

Please call your school nurses anytime your child will be absent from school. You can find the phone numbers by clicking here.

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School Related Illnesses

 

Vomiting/Diarrhea: Students with vomiting and /or diarrhea should not return to school until symptom-free for 24 hours. 

 

Strep Throat: Students need to be on antibiotic therapy for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to school.

 

Pink Eye: (Bacterial Conjunctivitis): Students need to be on antibiotic drops for a minimum of 24 hours and have NO active drainage from the eye before returning to school.

 

Skin Infections: If your child has any open, draining wounds on their skin, please have them evaluated by your physician.

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Respiratory Illness/COVID: Covid now falls under the Respiratory Virus guidelines. Students should remain out of school for 24 hours if they have a fever or significant symptoms stopping them from learning. They can return to school after 24 hours fever-free without fever-reducing medication and if their symptoms are improving. The CDC/NJDOH recommends masks for the next 5 days and avoiding unnecessarily exposing others to illness.

 

Fever: Any student with a temperature of 100 degrees or more is excluded from school and shall not return until remaining fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications: Tylenol/Ibuprofen. 

 

The following symptoms are general indications of illness:

 

• A fever of 100 degrees or higher

• A prolonged nasal discharge accompanied by other symptoms

• Persistent cough

• Diarrhea

• Headache and/or irritability