Dear parents，
Autumn and winter are the seasons with a high incidence of infectious diseases. The school clinic will do the following work in order to prevent infectious diseases.
1.Prevention Tips of Infectious Diseases will be shown repeatedly on the LED screen at the school gate.
2.Doctors of Anzhen Town Community Health Center are invited to give lectures to our students recently.
3.Daily Preventive Disinfection Work.
Common Symptoms
Here are the symptoms of common of infectious diseases that we would like to share with you.
Influenza（Flu）: Fatigue In the early stage, high fever (up to 39 ° C-40 ° C), chills, chills, headache, muscle soreness, joint pain and other systemic symptoms will soon appear, there may be runny nose, sore throat, dry cough and other local symptoms.
Chickenpox:Rash first appears in the trunk, head, gradually extends to the face, and finally reaches the limbs. Chickenpox can be spread by droplets, the patient’s blister fluid, or objects contaminated with blister fluid. The infectious period is from the beginning with fever symptoms to scab stage.
Mumps:The main symptom is parotid gland enlargement, which usually starts from one side and spreads to the other side after 1 to 4 days, which gradually develops forward, backward and downward centered on the earlobe presenting pear shaped swelling. Eating acid food can make parotid gland distending pain aggravating.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease: One or two days after the fever starts, there may appear painful mouth sores at the back of the mouth, skin rash on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet and the hips. Some may only shows symptoms of rash or herpangina.
Norovirus: The most common symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Some may have chills and fever.
In any case, if there is abnormal illness, please take your child to see a doctor immediately and report to the school truthfully. According to the requirements of Disease Control Department, for infectious diseases cases, students must be recovered with the certificate of resumption issued by the hospital before returning to school. Fever should be relieved for 48 hours, vomiting / diarrhea is required for continued 72 hours without vomiting and diarrhea before returning to school. The medical records should be checked by the school clinic before returning to class.
Prevention Tips
The five measures below that are effective in reducing the probability of infectious diseases are for your information.
Develop good hygiene habits and wash hands frequently.
The school clinic always adheres to the principle of prevention, together with sanitization during the Epidemic period and the seasons of high incidence of infectious diseases.
1.Students’ temperatures are checked and recorded in the morning, at noon and in the evening in the school. For anyone whose temperature is ≥37.3℃, his or her parent will be contacted to take the student to hospital.
2.The school clinic reports the absence of illness and follow up the feedback every day.
3.Normal sanitization work: the cleaners clean and sanitize with disinfectant tablets all the furniture and floors in classrooms, function rooms, dorm rooms and public areas. The school clinic staff do the disinfection work with ultraviolet lamps in all the mentioned rooms once a week.
4.When a case of infectious disease is found, the school will immediately start the infectious disease emergency plan and linkage mechanism. The school clinic will take the lead in organizing a comprehensive disinfection work for the student’s’ classroom, dormitory, school bus and other places. According to the diagnosis, the fixed classroom and the designated toilet will arranged for the student’s classmates without going to other public areas. Meals will be delivered to the classroom.
Let’s keep infectious diseases out of the school and make a safe and healthy working and learning place for all staff and students.