Should my child stay home today?

A student may return to school after being excluded for communicable disease by submitting a physician’s note stating that the student does not currently have signs or symptoms of a communicable disease or that the disease is not communicable in a childcare or school setting (25 Texas Administrative Code §97.7(d)) or by readmission criteria as established by the commissioner of health (see below). The criteria for exclusion and re-admission for communicable conditions are listed below and can also be found in 25 Texas Administrative Code §97.7(b):

 

2. Campylobacteriosis—exclude until diarrhea and fever subside

3. Chickenpox—exclude until after seven days from onset of rash, except in the case of immunocompromised individuals who should not return until all blisters

have crusted over (may be longer than seven days)

4. Common cold—exclude until fever subsides

5. Conjunctivitis, bacterial and/or viral—exclude until written permission and/or permit is issued by a physician or local health authority

6. Fever—exclude until fever subsides

7. Fifth disease (erythema infectiosum)—exclude until fever subsides

8. Gastroenteritis, viral—exclude until diarrhea subsides

9. Giardiasis—exclude until diarrhea subsides

10. Head lice (pediculosis)—exclude until one medicated shampoo or lotion treatment has been given

11. Hepatitis, viral, Type A—exclude until one week after onset of illness

12. Impetigo—exclude until treatment has begun

13. Infectious mononucleosis—exclude until physician decides or fever subsides

14. Influenza—exclude until fever subsides

15. Measles (rubeola)—exclude until four days after rash onset. In the case of an outbreak, unimmunized children should also be excluded for at least two weeks

after last rash onset occurs.

16. Meningitis, bacterial—exclude until written permission and/or permit is issued by a physician or local health authority

17. Meningitis, viral—exclude until fever subsides

18. Mumps—exclude until five days after the onset of swelling

19. Pertussis (whooping cough)—exclude until completion of five days of antibiotic therapy

20. Ringworm of the scalp—exclude until treatment has begun

21. Rubella (German measles)—exclude until seven days after rash onset. In the case of an outbreak, unimmunized children should be excluded for at least three

weeks after last rash onset occurs.

22. Salmonellosis—exclude until diarrhea and fever subside

23. Scabies—exclude until treatment has begun

24. Shigellosis—exclude until diarrhea and fever subside

25. Streptococcal sore throat and scarlet fever—exclude until 24 hours from time antibiotic treatment was begun and fever subsided

26. Tuberculosis, pulmonary—exclude until antibiotic treatment has begun and a physician’s certificate or health permit obtained