The school offers paediatric advice and develops paediatric activities throughout the year for children from 1 to 3 years of age, as well as activities for school staff and for parents of users.
Among the annual tasks that we develop in the paediatric counselling, we can highlight the following:
- A health file for each child
- Development and, if necessary, modification of age-appropiate diets for the users of the lunch service
- Educational talks for the school staff and parents of users
- Counselling on individual or collective health issues of the children in our school
In order to keep the adecuate health standards and to avoid as much as posible the spreading of sicknesess, we notify the most important rules we follow:
1. The parents who enrolla their children in this school accept and promise to comply with these rules.
2. Each child's primary paediatrician is responsible for his or her health. The school offers paediatric counselling to solve any doubts or health issues that may arise in the school itself in relation to this, from the point of view of fundamentally preventive guidance. This does not imply that, on certain occasions, through the person responsible for the group, the School's paediatric advisor may be consulted.
3. Parents undertake to provide the information requested (medical records, vaccination records, etc.), which will be used exclusively for medical purposes.
4. While attending school, parents undertake to administer the currently recommended doses of vaccines to their children.
5. The school is authorised to carry out routine medical check-ups, for the good of both the child and the rest of his or her classmates. When a "non-routine" examination is considered necessary, the centre will notify the parents so that they can arrange it through their paediatrician
6. The centre is authorised to transfer the child to an Emergency Service if deemed necessary. In this and in the previous section, the Centre is responsible for immediately communicating the contingency to the parents.
7. The school is authorised to administer appropriate medication in an emergency situation (e.g. antipyretics), and parents are subsequently informed.
8. Parents undertake to report illnesses suffered by their children, whether they attend school or are on sick leave, with a delay of no more than 24-48 hours. This is very important for contagious diseases, even if they are suffered by other members of the family (e.g. hepatitis, tuberculosis...).
9. In the event that a child becomes ill while at school, parents should pick them up as soon as possible, once they have been notified.
10. Parents undertake to comply with the exclusion regulations for sick children, which are in accordance with the regulations and the recommendations of various national and international scientific associations and organisations.
11. In cases of doubt, the paediatric counselling service will decide on the minimum standards to be met in each individual case, based on accepted, up-to-date scientific and bibliographical data, after informing the family of the child concerned.
12. When requested by the centre, the parents must provide a medical report from the specialist or hospital the child attended, indicating the process the child has undergone or is undergoing.
13. Parents should bring as little medication as possible to school because of the risk involved in having them and administering them at school. In any case, early morning and afternoon doses should be given at home.
14. When medication is to be administered, the name, time and exact dosage shall be indicated in writing.
15. This regulation may be modified if sufficiently justified and with prior notification of the reasons.
We will distinguish two situations. The first includes isolated or simultaneous symptoms and the second, specific diseases. Exclusions for symptoms:
- Sustained elevated temperature (38 °C or more).
- Repeated vomiting (two or more).
- Watery diarrhea (two or more bowel movements), especially if accompanied by fever.
- Intense cough, which prevents normal activity.
- Respiratory distress.
- Purulent discharge from the eyes.
- Intense pain, of any location.
- Rash and abnormal skin coloration.
- Abnormal coloration of the urine.
- Whenever the child, for whatever reason, cannot continue with the normal development of the activities of the School.
- Catarrhal process of the upper respiratory tract. As long as the high temperature and general malaise of the child lasts, preventing normal activity (one to ten days).
- Lower respiratory tract catarrhal process. As long as the breathing difficulty lasts (one to ten days).
- Chickenpox. Up to the seventh day from the onset of the rash (thirteen to sixteen days).
- Rubella. Until the fifth day from the onset of the rash (fourteen to twenty-one days).
- Measles. Up to the fifth day from the onset of the rash (ten to fourteen days).
- Epidemic megaloerythema. Isolation is not necessary (six to fourteen days).
- Mouth-hand-foot syndrome. Until no thermal elevation (three to five days).
- Sudden exanthema. Until 24 hours after disappearance of fever (five to fifteen days).
- Infectious mononucleosis. Exclusion is not necessary (thirty to fifty days).
- Hepatitis A. Approximately as long as jaundice lasts. If no jaundice is present, about seven to ten days (fourteen to forty days).
- Hepatitis B. Exclusion is not necessary, unless it presents exudative lesions or shows aggressive behaviour and bites.
- Hepatitis C. Same as above. At least as far as is known at the moment.
- Mumps. Until the swelling disappears, i.e. between five and nine days (two to three weeks).
- Herpes simplex. Exclusion is not necessary unless there are significant, exudative lesions.
- AIDS or HIV carriers. Exclusion is not necessary unless there are exudative lesions or aggressive behaviour and biting.
- Viral gastroenteritis. Until disappearance of the thermal elevation and improvement of the stool.
- Streptococcal tonsillitis. Until 24 hours of intramuscular treatment or 48 hours of oral treatment, provided there is no fever (one to three days).
- Scarlet fever. Same as above.
- Impetigo. Same as above.
- Otitis media. Until the ear pain does not prevent him from carrying out his normal activity.
- Conjunctivitis. If purulent, until 48 hours of treatment (one to three days).
- Whooping cough. Until seven days of treatment (five to ten days).
- “Haemophilusinfluenzae" disease. Until recovery of normal general condition and specific treatment (incubation period unknown).
- Meningococcal disease. Same as above (one to ten days).
- Tuberculosis. No exclusion necessary (two to ten weeks).
- Salmonellosis. Up to two or three negative stool cultures, with a minimum interval of 24 hours each taking 48 hours without treatment (Gastroenteritis less than 3 days; enteric fever seven to fourteen days).
- Shixellosis. Same as above (one to seven days).
- Campylobacter. Until stool culture negative, after 48 hours without treatment (one to seven days).
- Oxyuriasis. Until 24 hours after the first dose of medication (four to six weeks).
- Lambliasis. Until diarrhoea subsides, after starting treatment (one to four weeks).
- Scabies (“sarna”). Until 24 hours into treatment (two to four weeks).