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When to Keep Your Child Home from School
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When to Keep Your Child Home from School
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Signs of severe illness, including fever, irritability, difficulty breathing, crying that doesn’t stop with the usual comforting, or extreme sleepiness.
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Diarrhea
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Stools that contain blood or mucus.
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Vomiting two or more times in 24 hours, unless a physician feels the cause of vomiting is not an infectious disease and the child is in no danger of becoming dehydrated. A child should have one or two meals without vomiting before returning to school. Your child may be sent home from school for vomiting one time.
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Temperature of 100 degrees or above (must have temperature below 100 degrees for 24 hours before returning to schoolwithout taking a fever reducing medication).
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Questionable rash until a physician has determined the rash is not caused by an infectious disease.
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Known communicable disease must be treated for the appropriate amount of time as directed by a physician.
- Recommendation of a physician or school nurse
Curtsinger Health Site Frisco ISD
Curtsinger Elementary
12450 Jereme Trail, Frisco, Texas 75035
469-633-2108
