Notes from the Health Office

 

 

Vision and Hearing Screenings

I will be conducting vision and hearing screenings with the Nixon students in  October, November and December. Parents will be notified via a phone call and letter mailed home of those children who need to be referred to their physicians for further evaluation.

 

Allergy Alerts

If your child has food allergy you will want to sign up for the following e-mail blasts. Special Allergy Alerts help you keep an eye out for packaged foods that can cause a serious reaction. These Alerts notify you when a food has been mislabeled or recalled and when food companies will be making an ingredient change that involves allergens. Sign up for this free e-mail service by visiting www.foodallergy.org and clicking on the link in the upper right hand corner.

 

Medication Policy                                  

Please do not send any medications in your child's lunch box or backpack. All medication, prescription and nonprescription, needs to be dropped off by a parent to the health office.  Medication needs to be in its original container. When a prescription is being filled and doses will need to be administered at school, please have the pharmacist divide the medication between two containers, one for home and another for school.

 

Fourth Grade Physicals

Fourth grade physicals are due in the health office. Thank you if you have already sent in a copy of your child’s physical. If you have not yet provided the health office with a current physical, please do so as soon as possible.

 

Illness Policy

Please help us control the incidence of sickness at Nixon by observing the following policies:

 

Any child who has a fever, vomiting, diarrhea or green mucous discharge from the nose should not attend school.  If your child develops these symptoms while attending school, you will be called to pick him/her up immediately.

 

It is appropriate for your child to return to school following illness:

• after 24 hours of antibiotic therapy for strep throat or other contagious bacterial or viral conditions.

• after 24 hours without fever (many children with a night time fever will not manifest fever in the morning but will later in the day)

• without vomiting, diarrhea or a rash

• upon doctor recommendation, (if needed), documenting that a child is no longer infectious from a severe bacterial or viral illness

In addition, please keep your child home if you are awaiting the results of a culture.

 

It is imperative that the Health Office be notified immediately at the slightest suspicion that a child has or has been exposed to chickenpox. This can be life threatening for some of our Nixon students.

 

It has been wonderful to see all the children back at school. Every fall I am amazed over how much they have grown over the summer and this year is no exception.

 

Thank you,

Anne Chabot, R.N.

Nixon Health Office