Communicable Disease Management

Communicable Disease Management

Disease

Symptoms

Isolation Procedures

COVID-19

Fever (100.4°F or greater), new onset of moderate to severe headache, shortness of breath, new cough, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, new loss of sense of taste or smell, fatigue from unknown cause, muscle or body aches from unknown cause not attributed to allergies or a pre-existing condition.

Please notify your school nurse of a positive COVID-19 test result.

There are no mandated isolation requirements at this time.

No fever, vomiting, or diarrhea for 24 hours without medication

Chicken Pox

Rash (successive crops of red dots that turn into fluid-filled blisters and then dry up to form scabs) and fever.

Not less than five days after the eruption.

Mumps

Fever, nausea, pain, and swelling of glands along the neck and jaw.

Nine days.

German Measles

Rash (small pinkish-red blotches beginning behind ears and on face), slight swelling of neck glands, and upper respiratory infection.

Until all symptoms and rash are gone.

Measles

Starts as a cold with fever, watery eyes and nose, sneezing, and slight cough. Rash on the face follows, then rash spreads to the body.

From the onset of symptoms until four days after symptoms and abnormal mucus secretions have stopped.

Strep Infections / Scarlet Fever

Fever, sore throat, and enlarged glands in neck. The scarlet fever rash (pinpoint dots) appears 1-3 days after onset of sore throat and strawberry tongue.

Until completion of 24 hours of antibiotic treatment.

Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis)

Redness of the white part of the eye, itching and burning of the lids, and discharge.

Until completion of 24 hours of antibiotic treatment.

Impetigo

Skin infection which appears as honey-colored blisters, frequently on the face around the mouth.

Until completion of 24 hours of antibiotic treatment.

Staph Infection

Skin infection with redness, warmth, swelling, pus, and tenderness at site; a boil or appearing like a spider bite.

Until the wound is no longer draining or can be covered.

Pinwork

Perianal itching.