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 Communicable and Infectious Diseases

The following chart, taken from the Rules and Regulations of the Illinois Department of Public Health, will help in diagnosing and treating some common childhood ailments:

Disease

Symptoms

Exclusion from School

Chicken Pox

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

Not less than five days after appearance of eruption

Mumps

Fever, nausea, pain, and swelling of jaws

Nine days after onset of swelling

German Measles

Rash (small pinkish red blotches beginning behind ears and on face), slight swelling of neck glands

Seven days after rash onset

Measles

Starts like a cold with fever, watery eyes and nose, sneezing, and slight cough

Four days after appearance of rash

Scarlet Fever and all Strep Infections

Fever, vomiting, sore throat, rash (pinpoint dots) on upper parts of neck and chest, strawberry tongue

24 hours after treatment has been received

Pinkeye

Redness of the eye with itching and burning of the lids and discharge

24 hours after treatment has been received

Impetigo

Skin infection (yellowish crust)

24 hours after treatment has been received

Pinworm

Itching of anus

24 hours after treatment has been received

Head Lice and Nits

Itching at nape of neck and around ears

Until treated with medicated shampoo


All symptoms must be gone before a child returns to school.



 
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