Clinic

Is Your Child Too Sick for School?

When your student has a fever, keep them home. During the first days of illness, when symptoms are most severe and the infection is most contagious, students should stay home. Students can return to school when symptoms are improving and no fever has been detected for 24 hours.

• Tips for Parents from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Clinic Forms:

• Allergy/Emergency Action Plan
• Asthma Action Plan
• Diabetic Health Action Plan
• Diastat Administration Orders
• Medical Authorization
• Medical Information Release and Fax Consent - Spanish Version 
• Miscellaneous Student Health Action Plan
• Seizure Health Action Plan
• Special Dietary Request

The Flu

• Know What to do About the Flu (flu.gov)
• Seasonal Influenza from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta on Influenza

Health Topics

• Allegies in Children
• Allergic Rhinitis - Spanish
• EPI Pen and EPI Pen Junior - Spanish

Nurse News

• CDC: Ebola Information
• Ebola Virus Disease from the GA Dept. of Public Health
• Elmo says “Seeze in Your Sleeve”
• Tooth Fairy

Other Topics

• Head Lice Board Policy
• Head Lice FAQs
• Treating and Controlling Head Lice

How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy

When it comes to getting our children to eat healthy foods, nutrition experts say many of us try too hard.
Sometimes in our efforts to get our children to eat veggies or fruits or to limit desserts and “junk food,” we instead create power struggles that actually lead to less healthy eating. Check out these tips to not only encourage your child to eat better but also to help create a lifelong, positive relationship with food.*

*Read more from Children's Healthcare for Atlanta Strong4Life

What Parents Need to Know about Heat Illness in Young Athletes

Heat-related illness is responsible for thousands of emergency department visits annually by young athletes. The severity of heat injury ranges from mild heat cramps to heat stroke and death. In fact, heat stroke is the third most common cause of exercise-related death in U.S. high school athletes.

* Read more about Health-related Illness Tips for Young Athletes
* Read more about Heat Illness in Young Athletes Detection and Prevention