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Please be assured that we are monitoring the current influenza season and will work with the District Office to keep families informed as the need arises.
There are everyday actions that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like the flu.
Take these everyday steps to protect your health:
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
- If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Keep away from others as much as possible to keep from making others sick.
Other important actions that you can take are:
- Follow public health advice regarding school closures, avoiding crowds and other social distancing measures.
- Be prepared in case you get sick and need to stay home for a week or so; a supply of over-the-counter medicines, alcohol-based hand rubs (for when soap and water are not available), tissues and other related items could help you to avoid the need to make trips out in public while you are sick and contagious.
What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?
If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
Keep away from others as much as possible. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.
For the most current information regarding the 2011-2012 influenza season please refer to the CDC Website.
Other resources:
Influenza Shot Vaccine Fact Sheet
Intranasal Influenza Vaccine Fact Sheet
| Kelly Boucher | Helene Staley | Anne Marie Rich |
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WELCOME TO THE LMS HEALTH OFFICE...The primary role of the School Nurse is to advance the well being, academic success and life-long achievements of students. The school nurse facilitates positive student responses to normal development; promotes health and safety; intervenes with actual and potential health problems; provides case management services; and actively collaborates with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self management, self advocacy and learning. Students are encouraged to discuss any health problems with the school nurse.
The nurse's office is open during school hours. Parents may contact the office with any questions about their child's health or to report any changes in a student's health history.
Students with physical handicaps,(either temporary or permanent), which require them to use the elevator should see the nurse to obtain an elevator pass.
All injuries must be reported to the school nurse immediately. Except in the case of emergency, students must obtain a pass to the nurse.
MEDICATIONS AT SCHOOL (Including over-the-counter)
Students are not allowed to bring medication to school except after having completed necessary paperwork provided by the school district.
All medication brought to school by a student must be deposited with the school nurse. Students in possession of medication outside the nurses' office will be subject to disciplinary action. Students may carry inhalers and Epi-pens for emergency use with proper documentation from a healthcare provider.
No internal medication may be dispensed or administered to any child or member of the school staff, by school personnel except by the school nurse or under her supervision and only then upon written order of the physician who has examined and prescribed for a particular person. The school district attorney has indicated that a form provided by the school district should be completed by the parent/guardian and the prescribing physician prior to administering the medication.
**These forms are available upon request or you may print from the Documents section at the bottom of this page.
Illness or Communicable Diseases:
Please do not send your child to school if they have been ill with a fever or vomiting within the last 24 hours. **Please refer to our Exclusion From School policy under the Documentation section at the bottom of this page for additional information regarding when your child can return to school.
If your child has been diagnosed with a communicable disease, such as chicken pox, please inform the school nurse. It is very important that some students notify their doctor of any exposure.
Medical Release:
If the student sustains an injury which requires exclusion from participating in physical education and/or sports for longer than two days, the student must present a physician's statement. Upon return to participation a physician's statement must clearly define any restrictions required.
Students with physical handicaps,(either temporary or permanent), which require them to use the elevator should see the nurse to obtain an elevator pass.
Health Screenings:
Students receive periodic screenings for vision, hearing, height, weight and blood pressure. Parents are notified of any abnormal finding and referred for follow up with a physician. Scoliosis screening is done yearly to detect possible spinal curvatures. It is important that students in grades 6, 7, and 8 be screened annually during their growing years. The purpose of this program is to recognize a problem at its earliest stages so that intervention may begin as soon as possible. The procedure is a simple one during which the student's spine and posture are inspected as he/she stands and bends forward. Boys and girls are screened separately. Parents are notified of any abnormal finding and referred for folow up with a physician. Please call the school nurse if you have any questions about health screening.
Physical Examinations:
If your child wishes to try out for any athletic team at LMS, including cheerleading, he or she must have a current physical exam on file in their health record. A physical examination is considered current if done after March 1st of the year the student entered the middle school. (If you are unable to comply with the March 1st dateplease call the nurse's office to discuss other options).
A copy of this exam must be on file in the student's health record before tryouts begin.
** A copy of this form is available upon request or you may print a copy from the Documents section at the bottom of this page.
Immunizations:
NH State law requires a yearly audit of student's immunizations. Of paticular importance to students at LMS are , the second varicella vaccine, as well as updated tetanus vaccine.
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR
The New Hampshire Immunization Program has informed us of the immunization requirements for the 2009-2010 school year. The New Hampshire Immunization Program (NHIP) is committed to working with you to see that your students have the immunizations they need to keep them healthy and to maintain a healthy environment in which to learn and achieve.
There are two very important changes. The most encompassing change affects all students age 11 or older and pertains to the requirement for an updated tetanus vaccine. The second change affects incoming sixth graders and the requirement for a second Varicella vaccine. These two changes are outlined below. Please read them very carefully and direct any questions to your school nurse.
Two immunization updates needed upon entry into LMS:
Tdap (Combined Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis Vaccines)
When a child is 11 years of age or older, and it has been 5 years or longer since the last documented dose of a tetanus toxoid containing immunization, the child shall receive a one-time dose of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine, except if the child has a medical contraindication to pertussis vaccine, in which case the child shall receive tetanus diphtheria toxoid (Td) vaccine. Then, boost every 10 years with Td.
Varicella
All children entering sixth grade shall have received two valid doses of varicella vaccine or history of disease as reported by healthcare provider, or parent.
New Hampshire State Law requires written documentation of these vaccines be in the school nurse’s office prior to the first day of the 2009-2010 school year. Therefore it is very important that you inform us in writing when these requirements are met. Please check with your health provider and have your child immunized according to the new guidelines before the start of the new school year. If you have any questions regarding these new requirements, please call your school nurse.
For a copy of State Required immunizations, please refer to the State of New Hampshire Immunization Requirements
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