Illnesses & Injuries

If the illness is minor, your child may be able to return to class after a brief rest on the nurse's office cot. If there is fever, vomiting, persistent coughing, etc. your child may need to go home.

Make sure you have a completed emergency form on file with a phone number where you can be reached or the name and number of someone else who can come for your child.

If your child is frequently sent home sick, but seems to recover quickly once at home, keep in mind that you can always bring your child back to school!

Injuries

If your child's injuries require care beyond first aid, you or the person you designated on the emergency form will be contacted. Please notify us if there are any changes to the information originally supplied on the emergency form. Serious injuries can be very frightening for children, who may be even more frightened if we are unable to reach a parent or someone else they know.

If your child is returning to school after an injury and is on crutches or has any other condition that may require assistance during the day, be sure to notify the school nurse so that any arrangements that are needed can be made.

Communicable Diseases

The following criteria have been established by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for exclusion of students demonstrating symptoms suggestive of specific communicable diseases and infectious conditions. These are the guidelines for return to school:

• Pinkeye: 24 hours after initiation of treatment.
• Strep throat, scarlet fever: 24 hours after initiation of treatment.
• Lice: Seneca Valley maintains a "NO NIT" policy which requires that a student be free of nits (lice eggs) before readmission to school. Students who have been excluded must be checked and found to be nit-free by the school nurse before reentering the building.
• Chicken pox: Six days from the outbreak of the last crop of blisters, with all pox marks dried.
• Impetigo, scabies and ringworm: Until judged noninfectious by the physician.