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DISEASE
*Immunization is available
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Usual Interval Between Exposure and
First Symptoms of Disease
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MAIN SYMPTOMS
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Minimum Exclusion From School
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| CHICKENPOX* | 13 to 17 days | Mild symptoms and fever. Pocks are "blistery". Develop scabs, most on covered parts of the body. | 7 days from onset of pocks or until pocks become dry. |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS (PINK EYE) | 24 to 72 hours | Tearing, redness and puffy lids, eye discharge. | until 24 hours after treatment begins or physician approves readmission. |
| ERYTHEMIA INFECTIOSUM (5th DISEASE) | 4 to 20 days | Usual age 5-14 years - unusual in adults. Brief prodrome of low-grade fever followed by Erythemia (slapped cheek) appearance on cheeks, lace-like rash on extremities lasting a few days to 3 weeks. Rash seems to recur. | After diagnosis no exclusion from school. |
| GERMAN MEASLES* (RUBELLA) | 14 to 23 days | Usually mild. Enlarged glands in neck and behind ears. Brief red rash. | 7 days from onset of rash. Keep away from pregnant women. |
| HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS | 2 to 4 days | Fever, vomiting, lethargy, stiff neck and back. | Until physician permits return. |
| HEPATITIS A | Variable - 15 to 50 (average 28 to 30 days) | Abdominal pain, nausea, usually fever. Skin and eyes may or may not turn yellow. | 14 days from onset of clinical disease and at least 7 days from onset of jaundice. |
| IMPETIGO |
1 to 3 days |
Inflamed sores with pus. | 48 hours after antibiotic therapy started or until physician permits return. |
| MEASLES* | 10 days to fever, 14 days to rash | Begins with fever, conjunctivitis, runny nose, cough, then blotchy red rash. | 4 days from onset of rash. |
| MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS | 2 to 10 days (commonly 3 to 4 days) | Headache, nausea, stiff neck, fever. | Until physician permits return. |
| MUMPS* | 12 to 25 (commonly 18) days | Fever, swelling and tenderness of glands at angle of jaw. | 9 days after onset of swollen glands or until swelling disappears. |
| PEDICULOSIS (HEAD/BODY LICE) | 7 days for eggs to hatch | Lice and nits (eggs) in hair. | May return after proof of adequate treatment to kill lice and nits. |
| RINGWORM OF SCALP | 10 to 14 days | Scaly patch, usually ring-shaped, on scalp. | No exclusion from school. Exclude from gymnasium, swimming pools, contact sports. |
| SCABIES | 2 to 6 weeks initial exposure; 1 to 4 days reexposure | Tiny burrows in skin caused by mites. | Until 24 hours after treatment. |
| SCARLET FEVER SCARLATINA STREP THROAT | 1 to 3 days | Sudden onset, vomiting, sore throat, fever, later fine rash (not on face). Rash usually with first infection. | 24 hours after antibiotics started and no fever. |
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WHOOPING COUGH* (PERTUSSIS) |
7 to 10 days | Head cold, slight fever, cough, characteristic whoop after w weeks. | 5 days after start of antibiotic treatment. |
*Adopted: 12/13/10
*Reviewed: 11/12/12
*Revised: 09/18/17
*Reviewed: 9/12/22