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Health Information—Policy 3410 tion has to have an emergency care Avoid touching your eyes, nose or
The health information you provide at plan and all supplies provided prior to mouth.
registration and throughout the year is attending school Stay home if you are sick and limit
shared with staff as necessary to your contact with other people.
benefit the health and safety of your Medications at School—Policy 3416
child and others. Please notify your If a child requires oral , topical or eye Meningococcal Disease
child’s school when there are changes medication—both prescription and non- (Meningitis)
in your child’s health and when your prescription—during the school day, Schools in Washington are required to
emergency contact phone numbers parents/guardians MUST return the provide the parents and guardians of
change. completed district form to the child’s students entering 6th through 12th
school with written authorization and grades with information on
Immunizations - Policy 3413 directions from a licensed health care Meningococcal disease. Meningitis is
Before children can attend school, provider. an infection of the fluid of a person’s
parents/guardians must provide proof spinal cord and fluid that surrounds the
of full immunization, proof that a Medication Authorization forms are brain. There are two distinct kinds—
viral and bacterial, with each type ex-
schedule of immunization has begun available at the school or can be down-
or a certificate of exemption. loaded from the district’s website. A hibiting similar symptoms. Viral tends
Immunization must be provided new Medication Authorization form is to be less severe and students can get
against Diphtheria, Pertussis required each school year. better without treatment. Bacterial can
(Whooping Cough), Tetanus, Polio, be very severe and may result in brain
Mumps, Measles, Rubella, Hepatitis B Prescription medication and damage, hearing loss, disability and
and Varicella. Kindergarten and any non-prescription medication must be death. Symptoms may develop over
newly enrolled students will not be provided in the original manufacturer’s one to two days and include: high
able to attend school and/or be container with directions. The form and fever and chills, stiff neck, headache,
assigned to a classroom until all im- medication must be brought to school light sensitivity, vomiting, and some-
munizations are in compliance. by a parent/guardian. Under no times a rash, coma and seizures.
condition should any type of medicine Meningitis is much less contagious
Children entering kindergarten must be sent to school with the student, in than the common cold or influenza.
have received four to five doses of lunches or with the bus driver. If a How is the disease spread? It is
DTaP (depending on when vaccine health professional and a student’s transmitted person-to-person through
was given); three doses of polio, pro- parents request that a student be respiratory and throat secretions such
vided the last dose was given on or permitted to carry his/or her own as kissing or coughing. It may also be
after the fourth birthday; two doses of medication and/or be permitted to spread by sharing beverage
MMR given on or after the first birth- self-administer the medication, the containers, for example.
day and at least 28 days apart; three Principal may grant permission after Read more about this disease, the
doses of Hepatitis B vaccine; and two consulting with the school nurse. The cause and symptoms at http://
doses of Varicella (Chickenpox) on or process for requesting and providing www.cdc.gov.
after the first birthday or health care instructions shall be the same as
provider’s proof of diagnosis. established for oral medications. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
On the SWSD Health Page information
Students ages 11 and older are now Influenza—Policy 3414 is provided to you at the direction of
required to show proof of Tdap The best way to protect yourself and the Washington State Legislature to
(Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis) your family from catching the influenza help reduce cervical cancer rates in
vaccination if it has been five years virus is to: Washington by protecting girls from
since receiving a Tetanus-containing Cover your mouth with a tissue when Human Papillomavirus.
vaccine (Tdap, DT, or Td). you sneeze or cough and then throw HIV/AIDS Prevention
the tissue away. Washington state law RCW
If a child has been exempted from a 28A.230.070 requires public schools to
vaccine, s/he may be excluded from Wash your hands frequently with soap teach about the “life-threatening dan-
school in the event of an outbreak of and water or use a hand sanitizer. gers” of Human Immunodeficiency
that particular disease. Avoid close contact with people who Virus (HIV) and acquired
are sick. immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in
Any child with a life threatening condi- grades five and beyond.

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