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We All Need To Do Our Part...

Keep Our Students Well

With all the reports in the news concerning the Novel H1N1 (Swine Flu) Virus, we feel it is important to update parents on the preparations being made in USD #218 concerning this health issue. Keeping our students healthy and safe is our top priority. The H1N1 virus along with seasonal flu is contagious and can easily spread from person to person. Therefore, we are taking steps to reduce the spread of flu in the Elkhart School System. But we need your help to do this.

Here are a few things that you can do at home to help:

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  - Teach your children to wash their hands often with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Even older children need reminders as to how important this practice is. You can set a good example by doing this yourself.
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  - Teach your children not to share personal items like drinks, food or unwashed utensils.
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  - Have children cover their coughs and sneezes with a tissue. If tissues are not available then they should cover coughs and sneezes with their elbow or sleeve instead of their hand.
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  - Monitor your child every morning, before you send them to school, for flu symptoms. Symptoms of the flu include fever (100 degrees or greater), cough, sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, body aches, headache, and feeling tired. Some people may also vomit or have diarrhea.
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  - Keep sick children at home for at least 24 hours after they no longer have fever without the use of fever-reducing drugs such as Tylenol, Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or Naproxen (Aleve). Never give a child under the age of 19 aspirin due to the risk of developing Reyes Syndrome. Keeping children with fever at home will protect your child from being exposed to something else while having a lower ability to fight off infection. Also, it will greatly reduce the number of people infected.
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  - Do not send children to school if they are sick. Children with flu-like symptoms should remain at home and leave only to seek medical care as long as they have fever. Any children determined to be sick at school will be sent home.
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  - Be sure the school has up-to-date phone numbers and emergency contact information in case we need to contact you during school hours.

For more information on how to protect your family from the flu visit www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/toolkit/parentfactsheet2.htm . For more information about how to take care of your child if they do get sick you can visit http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/schools/toolkit/parentfactsheet.htm. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our school nurse Rena Witcher at 697.2133 or Rhianna Shaw at the Morton County Health Department at 697.2612.