Infectious Diseases

The School Medical Service stipulates the following periods of absence are required if your child contracts any one of the listed infectious diseases.

• 1. Chicken Pox: Until fully recovered. N.B. Some remaining scabs are not an indication for continued exclusion.
• 2. School Sores (Impetigo): Until sores have fully healed. The child may be allowed to return provided that appropriate treatment is being applied and that sores on exposed surfaces, face, hands, etc. are properly covered with occlusive dressings.
• 3. Viral Hepatitis: Until a medical certificate of recovery is produced, or on subsidence of symptoms but not before seven days after onset of jaundice.
• 4. Measles: For at least seven days from the appearance of the rash or until a medical certificate of recovery is produced.
• 5. Whooping Cough (Pertussis): For four weeks or until a medical certificate of recovery is produced.
• 6. Ringworm: Until appropriate treatment has commenced, supported when requested by a medical certificate.
• 7. German Measles (Rubella): Until fully recovered and at least four days from the onset of the rash.
• 8. Head Lice: Students are required to be sent home if head lice are found in their hair. Once treatment commences, they may return to school. The school has commenced a parent managed monitoring program, which is conducted at the start of each term. There is information available in the office to help you combat this problem effectively.
• 9. Slap Cheek: Students are most contagious before the rash appears. A child is not usually contagious once the rash has appeared. If diagnosed before the onset of the rash students should remain at home until the rash is visible.