Medical Policies and Guidelines

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If your child should become ill during school hours, you will be contacted to make arrangements for him or her to take home as soon as possible. Please come to pick up your child in a timely manner. Please be sure your child is well before returning to school. We ask that students be fever-free (Temperature below 37.5C) for 48 hours before coming back to school. A doctor’s note is required following an absence of four or more consecutive school days. The doctor’s note should state that the child may return to class and if there are any physical restrictions. If your child has a contagious disease/illness, please contact the school nurses who will advise you on the procedures about returning to school.

The following are conditions under which a child should stay home or would be sent home from school:

Covid-19:

Students with any Covid-19 symptoms should immediately seek medical advice and must not enter campus until they return a negative Covid test. Please refer to the Risk and Response Matrix on HKIS Central for more details, and contact your divisional principal if you have concerns about the health of your child.

Fever:

Students with a temperature of 37.5C or 99.5F or greater, should not return to school until they have been fever free for 48 hours without the benefit of fever reducing medications such as Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.

Vomiting and Diarrhea:

Students with vomiting and/ or diarrhea should not return to school until 24 hours after the last episode of vomiting or diarrhea. The student needs to be asymptomatic for 24 hours without the use of medication.

Acute Conjunctivitis:

Commonly known as “pink eye” and very contagious, students should not return to school until he/she has been seen by a doctor and the treatment of prescribed eye drops have been used for 24 hours and/or until abnormal eye secretions have resolved.

Hand, Foot and Mouth disease:

Students should not return to school until all vesicles have dried up or as advised by the doctor.

Scarlet Fever:

Students should not return to school until 24 hours after the appropriate antibiotic has begun and until 48 hours after the fever has come down as according to the fever policy.

Chickenpox:

Students should not return to school for five days or until all vesicles have dried up, and until 48 hours after the fever has come down as according to the fever policy and as advised by a doctor.

Head Lice:

Lice are highly communicable and difficult to prevent, but if every parent takes the responsibility to check the entire family periodically, these parasites can be prevented, detected early and controlled. If LIVE lice are found during school hours the student will be sent home. The student should not return to school until all LIVE lice have been removed. The nurse will check the student for lice and/or nits before the student is allowed to return to his/her classes.

Any (potential contagious illness):

If your child has been asked to rule out a contagious illness by the school nurse oradministrator, a doctor's note is required stating diagnosis and particular illness ruled out.