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August is here and most of the year round schools are in full swing with traditional calendar schools gearing up for their first day. Families are making school preparations, too. Classrooms crowded with kids are ideal environments for germ growth. Here are the top 5 illnesses that cause children to miss school and ways you can prepare: common cold, stomach flu, ear infections, conjunctivitis and sore throats.
Follow up:
Stomach Flu or viral gastroenteritis - Viral gastroenteritis, typically caused by the noroviruses, may develop after exposure to an infected person or eating or drinking contaminated food or water. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps. Additionally, some people experience fever, chills, headache and muscle aches. Typically, the symptoms resolve in 1-2 days.
Prevention includes
-Wash your hands often with soap and water. If this is not possible, carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer and use as needed.
-Use disposable paper towels.
-Clean contaminated surfaces with a solution of 1/4 bleach per gallon of water. -Allow the area to air dry.
If your child contracts the stomach flu....
-Give only sips of water until vomiting has stopped.
-Once your child can keep water on their stomach, offer fluids to prevent dehydration. Water, Jell-O, carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks with electrolytes, popsicles.
-Get plenty of rest.
-Slowly return to a normal diet. To improve diarrhea use the BRAT diet: bananas, rice, apples/apple sauce, toast. Avoid dairy products, which can make diarrhea worse.
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Kim Ashby earned a BS in Nursing from The Catholic University of America and, when she worked outside the home, was a Certified Emergency Nurse with a special interest in trauma nursing. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and three sons. The Ashbys have home schooled their children since 1999. They graduated their oldest son in May 2007. He is attending UNC Wilmington. Kim continues to home school her younger boys. Her oldest son was diagnosed with ADHD when he was in the public school system in the second grade. Her second son has cerebral palsy which has resulted in multiple/global developmental delays. Her youngest son has undiagnosed, mild auditory processing issues.
Kim has co-instructed graduate level courses at UNC Chapel Hill for ST/OT students and Early Intervention students. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of GIFTSNC, Inc., a home schooling special needs support group. Kim has presented workshops at a variety of state home school conferences as well as local support group parent meetings and is often a guest speaker at homeschool conferences and is found on many guest speaker lists including Balancing the Sword. She is a Steering Committee member and former Treasurer for Dayspring Home Educators in Cary, NC. She served on the Board of Directors for the Family Support Network of Wake County. She holds a North Carolina Wildlife Permit for Small Mammal Rehabilitation and enjoys working with orphaned and injured wildlife.
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