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When to Keep Your Child Home

It is important to keep your child home if ill. This helps to make your child more comfortable and prevents other children from becoming ill. Contact your doctor for medical advice and keep your child home if he/she has any of the following:

  • ANY FEVER – Fever indicates active infection (temperature above 37°C / 98.6°F)
  • vomiting or diarrhea through the night or in the morning
  • ear ache or any drainage from ear
  • eye irritations with yellow discharge or redness
  • persistent runny nose with yellow discharge or redness
  • persistent runny nose with thick mucous
  • severe sore throat – sign of infection
  • stomach aches and headaches
  • persistent or regular night cough
  • undiagnosed rash

Please contact your doctor if symptoms are severe, get worse or do not go away.
Be sure your current home, work, and emergency contact phone numbers are on file at the school. Call the school when your child is absent. For more information:
Call Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000
Visit the City of Hamilton, Public Health Services website at www.hamilton.ca/HealthandSocialServices

Updated on Wednesday, January 03, 2018.
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