May 6, 2009 - The district continues to monitor the situation with the H1N1flu, following the direction of Public Health Seattle –King County. At this time, the focus of Public Health is on keeping all students with symptoms of influenza out of school during their period of illness and recuperation, when they are potentially infectious to others.
The most important action for parents is to check their student for symptoms each day and to keep children who are ill at home.
Public Health is requesting that parents answer these questions every morning before sending your child to school or daycare:
- Does your child have a fever (100º F or 37. 7ºC)? If you don’t have a thermometer, feel your child’s skin with your hand. If it is much warmer than usual your child probably has a fever.
- Does your child have a sore throat, cough, runny nose, body aches, vomiting, or
diarrhea?
If you answered “yes” to both questions above, your child might have the flu. Keep your child home from school for 7 days or until symptoms are gone for 24 hours, whichever is longer.
If you checked “yes” to only one of the questions above, keep your child home from school until symptoms are gone for 24 hours.
Go to to the Public Health swine flu page to get more information on when to keep children home from school; how to care for someone with influenza; and swine flu facts.