What’s wrong?

What to do?

High temperature

• Give paracetamol and plenty to drink.
• After paracetamol, if your child feels better, bring them into the academy.
• If the child's high temperature continues for three days or more, seek advice.

Headache, earache and stomach ache

• Children with headache, earache or stomach ache can come to the academy - just let the staff know they have felt unwell.
• Give paracetamol and plenty of fluids to drink.
• If headache, earache or stomach ache persist seek advice.

Coughs and colds

• Children should be given paracetamol, plenty of fluids to drink and can be brought into the academy.
• If your child is asthmatic, remember they may need their blue inhaler more often.

Flu

• Children should return to the academy when recovered - this is usually about five days.

Sore throats, tonsillitis and glandular fever

• Children should be given paracetamol, plenty of fluids to drink and be brought to the academy .

Diarrhoea and vomiting

• Children can return to the academy 24 hours after the last episode of diarrhoea or vomiting.

Head lice

• Children can attend the academy with head lice but they must be treated for the condition to prevent further spreading.
• Parents should treat their children and other family members by wet combing with a nit comb and conditioner.

Scabies

• Children can return to the academy after the first treatment.
• Others at home should be treated.

Threadworm

• Children return to the academy when they have started their treatment.
• Everyone at home should be treated.

Hand, foot and mouth, warts and verrucae, athletes foot and molluscum contagiosum

• Children can attend the academy.
• Verrucae should be covered in swimming pools and changing rooms.

Conjunctivitis

• Children can attend the academy.
• They should be encouraged to wash their hands to prevent further spread of infection.

Impetigo

• Children can return to the academy when their lesions are crusted or healed, or two days after starting antibiotics.

Measles, Chicken Pox and German Measles

• Measles - children should return to the academy four days after the rash has started.
• Chicken Pox - children should return to the academy as soon as all their spots have all crusted over.
• German Measles - children should return to the academy four days after the rash has started. Please let the academy know, as pregnant members of staff may be affected.

Scarlet fever or strep throat

• Children should return to the academy 24 hours after starting appropriate antibiotic treatment.

Mumps

• Children should return to the academy five days from the start of swollen glands.

Whooping cough

• Children should return to the academy five days after starting antibiotics. Non-infectious coughing may continue for many weeks.