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• When to Keep Your Child at Home
• Orange County Health Department Immunication Services

When to Keep Your Child at Home

February 27, 2003

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Over the last several weeks, the number of ill children at school has substantially increased. I feel at this time it would be helpful to review some guidelines regarding when to keep your child at home. Please keep this letter as a helpful reference.

1. FEVER- Keep home with a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
   ****CHILDREN MUST BE FEVER-FREE FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE RETURNING TO SCHOOL
2. VOMITING- Keep home when child vomits 2 or more times within the past 24 hours.
3. DIARRHEA- Keep home if 3 or more watery stools in a 24 hour period especially if the child acts or looks ill.
4. SORE THROAT- Keep home if child has a fever or swollen glands in the neck.
5. GREENISH NOSE DISCHARGE AND/OR CHRONIC COUGH- Keep home if child exhibits these symptoms.
6. APPEARANCE/BEHAVIOR- Keep home if unusually tired, pale, lack of appetite, difficult to wake, confused or irritable.
7. RASH- Keep home if child has a body rash, especially with fever or itching.
8. EYES- Keep home if thick mucus or pus draining from the eye or pink eye.
9. EAR INFECTIONS WITHOUT FEVER- Child may come to school but needs to get medical treatment and follow-up.

If your child has any of the above symptoms, please keep him/her at home or make appropriate child care arrangement. Bringing a child to school with any of these symptoms puts other children and staff at risk of getting sick. If parents keep their sick children at home, this will result in stronger, healthier and happier children.

Sincerely,

Beth Robbins, RN BSN
School Nurse

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Orange County Health Department Immunication Services

Central Clinic 832 W. Central Blvd. 407-836-2600 Monday-Thursday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm Friday open 8 am, pm clinic dependent on RN availability Oakridge WIC Office 2346 W. Oakridge Rd. 407-858-4732 Monday, Tuesday & Thursday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm Wednesday open 8:00 am, no pm clinic Winter Park Clinic 941 W. Morse Blvd. Room 269 407-836-2502 Monday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm Friday open 8:00 am, no pm clinic Apopka Family Service Center 555 W. Main Street 407-905-5580 3rd & 4th Tuesday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm

Eastside Clinic 12050 E. Colonial Dr. 407-249-6232 Monday-Thursday open 7:30 am & 1:00 pm Friday open 7:30 am, no pm clinic Ocoee/Winter Garden Clinic 475 W. Story Rd. 407-667-6260 Monday, Tuesday & Thursday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm Wednesday & Friday open 8:00 am, no pm clinic Evans Family Service Center 4949 Silver Star Rd. 407-522-3480 Thursday open 8:00 am & 1:00 pm Beta Center 4680 Lake Underhill Rd. 407-277-1942 2nd Tuesday open 8:30 am, no pm clinic

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