FIRST AID & ILLNESS
If your child is absent due to illness, please call the “Absence Line” number: 952-934-6003 x606 or send an email to: attendance@sthubert.org.
Communicable contagious Diseases/Conditions
ALL communicable diseases must be reported to the school nurse. Students in the affected classroom(s) will be notified of the symptoms to observe. (for example strep throat, chicken pox, etc)
To Send or Not to Send
If your child has had a fever of 100 degrees or more, he/she should stay home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal. If your child has vomited or had diarrhea, the child should not return to school until 24 hours after the last episode. If your child has an undiagnosed rash, please contact your doctor before sending him/her to school.
If you have any questions regarding sending your child to school, please contact the health office: 952-934-6003 x305.
Exclusion from School Due to Illness
A student should be excluded from school with any of the following conditions:
- Fever of 100 or more, the student needs to stay home for 24 hours after the temperature returns to normal.
- Vomiting and diarrhea, the student needs to stay home until 24 hours after the last episode.
- Any undiagnosed rash, the student needs to see a physician before admittance to school.
- Chicken Pox - the student may return to school after the last poxes have scabbed over, usually 7-10 days.
- Any uncontrolled cough
- Influenza - readmit when child feels well, anywhere from 2-7 days.
- Impetigo - student may return to school 24 hours after treatment.
- Lice - student may return after treatment
- Pink eye - student may return after treatment if there is no pus-like drainage.
- Ringworm - student may return 24 hours after treatment
- Scabies - student may return 24 hours after treatment.
- Strep throat - student may return 24 hours after first antibiotic treatment.
- Pinworm - student may return after treatment.
- Hand, foot, & mouth disease - student may return 24 hours after temperature returns to normal.
Specific Illnesses
Contagious Conditions:
Other Conditions
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