GENERAL INFORMATION
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Appendix A - Infectious Diseases – Exclusion Table<br />
RECOMMENDED MINIMUM PERIODS OF EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL<br />
Condition Cases Contacts<br />
Chickenpox and Shingles<br />
Exclude until fully recovered or at least five days<br />
after the eruption first appeared. (Some<br />
remaining scabs are not a reason for continued<br />
exclusion).<br />
Conjunctivitis Exclude until discharge from eyes has stopped Not excluded<br />
Cytomegalovirus<br />
Exclusion not necessary<br />
Not excluded<br />
Infection<br />
Diarrhoea (campylobacter,<br />
cryptosporidium, giardia,<br />
rotavirus, salmonella,<br />
shigella, intestinal worms)<br />
Exclude until diarrhoea has stopped<br />
Not excluded<br />
Glandular fever<br />
Exclusion not necessary<br />
Not excluded<br />
(mononucleosis)<br />
Hand, Foot and Mouth Exclude until all blisters have dried<br />
Not excluded<br />
Disease<br />
Haemophilus influenza Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is Not excluded<br />
type b (Hib)<br />
received<br />
Headlice<br />
Exclude until day after proper treatment has Not excluded<br />
started<br />
Hepatitis A<br />
Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is Not excluded<br />
received, but not before seven days after the<br />
jaundice or illness started<br />
Hepatitis B Exclusion not necessary Not excluded<br />
Hepatitis C Exclusion not necessary Not excluded<br />
Herpes (“cold sores”) Exclude if child cannot comply with good hygiene<br />
practices while sores are weeping. (Sores<br />
should be covered with a dressing where<br />
possible)<br />
Not excluded<br />
Human immune<br />
deficiency virus infection<br />
(HIV/AIDS virus)<br />
Impetigo (“school sores”)<br />
Influenza and influenzalike<br />
illness<br />
Measles<br />
Meningitis (other than<br />
the meningococcal<br />
infection)<br />
Meningococcal infection<br />
Exclusion not necessary unless child has a<br />
secondary infection which requires exclusion in<br />
its own right<br />
Exclude until proper treatment has started.<br />
(Sores on exposed skin should be covered with<br />
a watertight dressing)<br />
Exclude until well<br />
Exclude for at least four days after rash has<br />
started or until a medical certificate of recovery is<br />
provided<br />
Exclude until well<br />
Exclude until carrier eradication antibiotic course<br />
is completed<br />
Exclude children with immune<br />
deficiencies (e.g. Leukaemia or<br />
chemotherapy), otherwise not<br />
excluded<br />
Not excluded<br />
Not excluded<br />
Not excluded<br />
Molluscum contagiosum Exclusion not necessary Not excluded<br />
Mumps<br />
Exclude for nine days or until swelling goes Not excluded<br />
down<br />
Parvovirus (erythema<br />
infectiosum or “Fifth<br />
Exclusion not necessary<br />
Not excluded<br />
Immunised children not excluded.<br />
Non-immunised contacts should<br />
be excluded until 14 days after the<br />
first day the rash appears in the<br />
last case. They may return to the<br />
school or centre if immunised<br />
within 72 hours of contact with the<br />
first case<br />
Not excluded<br />
Not excluded. Close contacts<br />
should take antibiotic (rifampicin).<br />
Public health authorities will<br />
advise
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