You must contact the health office if your child contracts a communicable disease. Children are excluded from school for the common diseases listed below:
Chicken Pox: Excluded until at least 6 days after the last outbreak of “pox”.
Acute Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye): Excluded until prescribed treatment has been given for 24 hours.
Head Lice: Excluded until treated with pediculocide shampoo and combed for nit removal. A parent is required to accompany the student to the health office with the shampoo box for a recheck after treatment, before the student is readmitted to class.
Impetigo: Excluded until judged non-infective by the child’s physician or school nurse.
Measles: Excluded until four days from onset of rash.
Mumps: Excluded nine days from the onset or until swelling subsides.
Pertussis (Whooping Cough): Excluded four weeks from onset or seven days from start of antibiotic treatment.
Ringworm: Excluded until judged non-infective by the child’s physician or school nurse.
Rubella (German measles): Excluded four days from the onset of rash.
Scabies: Excluded until determined to be non-infective by the child’s physician or school nurse.
Strep Throat and Scarlet Fever: Excluded until 24 hours after treatment is begun.
In addition, Our Lady of Mount Carmel School reserves the right to exclude children from school based on the following criteria:
- Illness that prevents the child from participating in activities
- Fever (100.0˚ or higher). Students may not return to school until free of fever without fever reducing medication for 24 hours.
- Diarrhea or vomiting during the previous 24 hours. Student may not return to school until appetite has returned to normal.
- Rash with a fever.
- Other conditions deemed appropriate after assessment by the certified school nurse and/or staff nurse.