Communicable+Diseases

__** Communicable Diseases **__

It is imperative that the health office be notified if your child contracts a communicable disease.

**Children are excluded from school for the following common diseases:** **__Chicken Pox__**: Excluded until at least six days after the last outbreak of “pox” **__Conjunctivitis, Acute (“Pink Eye”):__** Excluded until prescribed treatment has been given for 24 hours. A parent is required to accompany the student to the health office with the pediculocide box or container for a recheck after treatment, before the student is readmitted to class. start of antibiotic treatment. nurse. school nurse. after treatment has begun. Central Bucks also reserves the right to exclude children from school based on the following criteria:
 * __Head Lice:__** Excluded until treated with a pediculocide shampoo and combed for nit removal.
 * __Impetigo:__** Excluded until judged non-infective by the child’s physician or the 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
 * __Ringworm:__** Excluded until judged non-infective by the child's physician or the school
 * __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 the
 * __Streptococcal Pharyngitis (Strep Throat and Scarlet Fever):__** Excluded until 24 hours
 * Illness that prevents the child from participaiting in activities
 * Fever (100 ° or higher). ** Students may not return to school until free of fever **** without fever medication for 24 hours. **