Health Considerations

HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS

  • WHEN TO KEEP A SICK CHILD HOME FROM SCHOOL

    • COVID-19 Symptoms*:

      • Fever or chills

      • Cough

      • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

      • Fatigue

      • Muscle or body aches

      • Headache

      • New loss of taste or smell

      • Sore throat

      • Congestion or runny nose

      • Nausea or vomiting

      • Diarrhea

    OTHER ILLNESS INDICATORS ON WHEN TO KEEP A CHILD HOME FROM SCHOOL:

    • Fever: CDC considers a person to have a fever when he or she has a measured temperature of 100.4° F or greater, or feels warm to the touch, or gives a history of feeling feverish. In certain situations, other methods of detecting a possible fever should be considered:

      • self-reported history of feeling feverish when a thermometer is not available or the ill person has taken medication that would lower the measured temperature.

      • the person feels warm to the touch.

      • the appearance of a flushed face, glassy eyes, or chills if it is not feasible to touch the person or if the person does not report feeling feverish.

    • For at least 24 hours since the child's last episode of vomiting or diarrhea 

    • Strep Throat (must have been taking an antibiotic for at least 24 hours before returning to school)

    • Bacterial Conjunctivitis, or Pink Eye (must have been taking an antibiotic for at least 24 hours before returning to school)

    • A bothersome body rash, especially with fever and/or itching that spreads quickly and has open, weeping wounds

    *IMPORTANT NOTE: If your student has a pre-existing condition that mimics COVID-19 symptoms, such as headaches, please ask their doctor to provide a note that the symptom is part of a pre-existing condition and that is not attributable to COVID and submit it to your child's school nurse. In this case, you would use your normal treatment plan and the student could come to school.

     

    MEDICATION AT SCHOOL

    Medication is defined to mean all drugs, whether prescription or “over-the-counter”.  It is the policy of the Bainbridge Island School District not to give medicine to students at school, except at the request of the parent and a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority.  If it is necessary to take medication during the school day, please follow these steps:

    • Parents have the Medication at School form completed by their child’s health care provider https://bit.ly/2YRE94n

    • Parents bring in the completed form and the medication in the original container to the office

    • Please bring only the required number of doses to the school and keep the remainder of medication at home

    • Students are not allowed to transport the medication (unless the medication is an inhaler)

    BISD School Board Policy 3416 and Procedure P3416 outline the district’s policy regarding Medication at School.

    Updated August 2022