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• Illness: Member is unable to participate in routine activities or needs more care than can be provided by the Club staff.
• Fever: Elevation of body temperature above normal, stiff neck, difficulty breathing, rash, sore throat, and/or other signs or symptoms of illness; or is unable to participate in routine activities. Oral temperature of 99.5 degrees F or higher are considered above normal temperature. A child who has been ill should not return to the Club until he/she has been fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of fever-reducing medications
• Signs/Symptoms of Possible Severe Illness: Member is unusually tired, has uncontrolled coughing, unexplained irritability, persistent crying, difficulty breathing, wheezing, or other unusual signs for the child.
• Diarrhea: Until 24 hours after diarrhea stops or until a medical exam indicates that it is not due to a communicable disease. Diarrhea is defined as an increased number of stools compared with a child's normal pattern, along with decreased stool form and/or stools that are watery, bloody, or contain mucus.
• Vomiting: Until 24 hours after vomiting stops, unless determined to be caused by a noncommunicable condition and the child is not in danger of dehydration.
• Mouth Sores with Drooling: Until a medical exam indicates the child may return or until sores have healed.
• Rash with Fever or Behavior Change: Until a medical exam indicates these symptoms are not those of a communicable disease that requires exclusion.
• Eye Drainage: When purulent (pus) drainage and/or fever or eye pain is present or until a medical exam indicates that a child may return.
• Unusual Color of Skin, Eyes, Stool, or Urine: Until a medical exam indicates the child does not have hepatitis. Symptoms of hepatitis include yellow eyes or skin (jaundice), gray or white stools, or dark (tea or cola-colored) urine.
Head Lice Guidelines
Basic head lice info from the Centers for Disease Control: Head-to-head contact with an already infested person is the most common way to get head lice. Head-to-head contact is common during play at school, at home, and elsewhere (sports activities, playground, slumber parties, camp). Uncommonly, head lice may be spread by sharing clothing or belongings onto which lice or nits may have crawled or fallen. Personal hygiene or cleanliness in the home or school has nothing to do with getting head lice.
To prevent the spread of head lice:
• Avoid head-to-head (hair-to-hair) contact during play and other activities at home, school, and
elsewhere (sports activities, playground, slumber parties, camp). Lice are spread most commonly by direct head-to-head (hair-to-hair) contact and much less frequently by sharing clothing or belongings onto which lice or nits may have crawled or fallen.
• Do not share clothing such as hats, scarves, coats, sports uniforms, hair ribbons, or barrettes.
• Do not share infested combs, brushes, or towels.
• Do not lie on beds, couches, pillows, rugs, carpets, or stuffed animals that have recently been in
contact with an infested person.
• To help control a head lice outbreak in a community, school, or camp, children can be taught to
avoid activities that may spread head lice.
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