Should a child go to school/nursery today?

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

For more information go to Fever/High Temperature.

• Children with headache, earache or stomach ache can go to school - 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.

For more information go to Earache and/or Tummy Ache.

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

For more information go to Cough and Cold.

• Children should go back to school when recovered - this is usually about five days.
• Not sure? seek advice.

For more information go to Fever/High Temperature.

Find out more about the Flu Vaccine for Children.

• Children should be given paracetamol, plenty of fluids to drink and be sent to school.

For more information go to Sore Throat.

• Children can return to school 48 hours after the last episode of diarrhoea or vomiting.

For more information go to Diarrhoea and Vomiting.

• Children can go to school 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.

• Children can go back to school after the first treatment.
• Others at home should be treated.

• Children can go to school when they have started their treatment.
• Everyone at home should be treated.

• Children can go to school.
• Verrucae should be covered in swimming pools and changing rooms.

For more information go to Hand, foot and mouth, Warts and Verrucae, Athletes Foot, Molluscum Contagiosum.

• Children can go to school.
• They should be encouraged to wash their hands to prevent further spread of infection.

For more information go to Conjunctivitis.

• Children can go back to school when their lesions are crusted or healed, or two days after starting antibiotics.

For more information go to Impetigo.

• Children should go back to school 24 hours after starting appropriate antibiotic treatment.

For more information go to Scarlet Fever or Strep.

• Children should go back to school five days from the start of swollen glands.

For more information go to Mumps.

• Children should go back to school five days after starting antibiotics. Non-infectious coughing may continue for many weeks.

For more information go to Whooping Cough.