H1N1 Update 9/23/09

As of this morning Delano Schools knows of no confirmed H1N1 cases among its student or staff population. There have been students reported with influenza like illness.

We ask parents to keep their children home and notify the school nurse if your child exhibits symptoms of influenza like illness, which is a fever of 100 degrees or higher and a cough or sore throat. So that we can track the number of influenza like illnesses, please state when you call the nurse or leave a phone message if it is an influenza like illness.

If your child has a health condition (such as asthma, diabetes, lung or heart problems) contact their health care provider for instructions if your child develops influenza like illness.

If you r child has influenza like illness as described above keep your child home for at least 24 hours after his or her fever is gone without the use of medicine. For many children this could be 5-7 days.

Use the screening tool to determine when your child needs to stay home and what to report to the school.