Spinal Screening

Girls at age 10 and 12 and boys once at age 13 or 14 shall be screened for abnormal spinal curvature before the end of the school year. If the screening indicates the student may have an abnormal spinal curvature, the school shall send a letter of the screening results to the parent/guardian advising them to schedule an exam with a professional healthcare provider.

Milford ISD Asthma Action Plan

Milford ISD monitors flu-like illness in our students and staff daily. Good health and hygiene habits are very important to the health of our students, staff and visitors and are strongly encouraged. Our support service staff members clean frequently touched surfaces daily and perform extra sanitizing measures in classrooms and areas where flu illness is increasing.

We strongly urge parents to keep their children home if they have any flu-like symptoms such as fever greater than 100, sore throat, cough, body aches, vomiting or diarrhea until they are fever-free without the use of fever reducing medication for 24 hours. Your help is critical in keeping our schools healthy during this flu season.

We encourage parents to get the flu vaccine every year for their children ages 6 months and older and themselves.

MISD routinely monitors the temperature, ozone, and weather conditions. While outdoor activity is strongly encouraged for all students, there may be times when it is necessary to suspend outdoor activity due to weather conditions. The amount of time spent outside is adjusted according to the weather. The health and safety of our students and staff is a high priority.

Recommendations for students during high temperatures:

• Increase the amount of water you are drinking.

• Limit the amount of time outside during extreme temperatures.

• If you are not feeling well, please inform a staff member immediately.

• Certain students and staff members may need to take even more precautions. Please contact your campus nurse for further information.

MISD Guidelines

• All medication must be in original container and not past expiration date.
  

• Written permission needed from physician and parent/guardian! All medications are carried to and from school by parent/guardian.
  

• All medications will be counted when delivered to and released from school nurse to parent.
  

• All prescription medications must be properly labeled in original container. Properly labeled prescription is one with the pharmacy label stating the student's name, name of medication, dosage to be administered, doctor's name, and date prescription filled.
  

• No medications will be given that is NOT FDA approved.
  

• Staff shall not administer medication that exceeds recommended maximum dosage in the Physician’ Desk Reference.
  

• All requests are for current school year only.
  

• Non-prescription (or over-the-counter) medication will be given for only 5 consecutive days. If needed over 5 days a physician’s note will be required.
  

• Non-prescription medications must also be age appropriate, in original container, not past expiration date and must be accompanied by proper permission.

If your child develops a fever or flu-like symptoms, please keep them home and contact your health care provider. Those who have not received the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine are most at risk.

To keep our school community healthy, we ask that parents follow the district’s illness protocol. Please keep your student home if he or she has a temperature of 99.8 or higher, and is suffering from one or more of the following: cold/flu-like symptoms, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, swollen glands or rash. To prevent the spread of illness, please do not send them to school. Your child must be fever-free for at least 24 or more hours before returning to school. Students who require fever reducing medicine should be kept home. If your child has a fever or any of the symptoms listed above for more than 48 hours, seek medical attention immediately. If you have questions or concerns about your child attending school, please contact the school nurse at your campus.

Please take the following preventative steps to protect your child and other family members:

• Dress them properly for the weather.

• Make sure they have plenty of fluids, rest and proper nutrition.

• Teach them to cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.

• Encourage frequent hand washing with soap and water. An alcohol-based hand sanitizer may be substituted when soap and water are not available.

Information About Mumps

The mumps is a highly contagious viral disease that is spread by droplets when a person coughs or sneezes. Symptoms include fever, headache, swelling of the salivary glands, fatigue muscle aches and loss of appetite

What is TB? “TB” is short for a disease called tuberculosis. TB germs are passed through the air when someone who is sick with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, laughs, sings, or sneezes. Anyone near the sick person can breathe TB germs into their lungs.

Common symptoms are feelings of sickness or weakness, weight loss, fever and night sweats. Productive coughing (coughing up a mixture of mucus, irritants and other substances from the lungs) and chest pain are possible symptoms of TB in the lungs.

If you have been around someone who has TB disease, you should go to your doctor or your local health department for tests.

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