If your child is sick, please keep your child home and monitor their symptoms. Seek medical treatment if needed. Please call your child’s school nurse and inform them that your child is sick.

If you need us, please do not hesitate to call!! We are here to help and guide you. We are here to try our best to keep your children healthy.

Wash your hands!! Maintain social distancing!! Prevention is key!!

Thanks,

Deidre Tarte, RN

North Mullins Primary School Nurse

DHEC and the WHO has issued recommendations to lead school nurses for students and staff for preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 and the flu:

• Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds; alcohol-based hand sanitizer may be used except after changing diapers, using or assisting someone in using the toilet, and when hands are visibly soiled;
• Avoid frequent touching of eyes, nose, and mouth;
• Covering mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing; immediately discard tissues in a waste basket;
• If tissues are not readily available, the cough or sneeze may be caught by the sleeve at the elbow or shoulder. Remove mucus or debris with a tissue and then wash your hands or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Change or cover clothing contaminated with mucus to prevent spreading.
• Washing or sanitizing hands after using tissues and after contact with respiratory secretions.
• Encourage Respiratory Etiquette by making hygiene supplies, tissues, and trash receptacles easily accessible.
• Encourage parents to keep children at home if ill; staff should equally be encouraged to stay at home when ill.
• Sanitize commonly touched surfaces and objects frequently with an EPA-registered disinfectant.

Thank you!

Due to the increase of illness within the school we would like to provide you with a little information on illnesses we are seeing the most. Things like strep throat, fever, vomiting, and flu like symptoms. Flu season is on the rise.

According to DHEC’s school exclusion list Strep Throat is transmitted (passed) through droplet (coughing or sneezing) or contact with contaminated objects. Students who have been diagnosed with strep throat should not return until no temperature (98.6 F) and at least 24 hours after treatment has been started.

Student who have been vomiting (throwing up) 2 or more times during the previous 24 hours should not return until at least 24 hours has passed with no further vomiting. No exclusion is required for a brief, nonrepeating episode of vomiting with no other signs of severe illness.

Influenza/ Influenza-like Illness (ILI) ILI is defined as an oral temperature of > 100° F with a cough and/or sore throat for which there is no other known cause. Student are unable to return until at least 24 hours after fever has resolved without the use of fever-reducing medicines like Tylenol or Motrin.

Please please please do not send you sick, still recovering from illness, feverish child to school to infect the healthy students and staff.

Thank you!!