- Clear Creek Amana CSD
- Health Services
Health Services
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The Health Services department is designed to help each student protect, improve, and maintain physical, emotional, and social well-being. Each school includes a health office staffed daily to help with accidents, illnesses, and emergencies.
Information
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Head Lice
Lice! Just saying or hearing it can make one’s head itch. So what is lice and what can you do about it? Lice are tiny, parasitic insects that can live on some areas of the body such as the head, eyebrows, and eyelashes. They are grayish-brown in color and smaller than a sesame seed. The eggs of lice are called nits. Nits attach to hair strands. Nits can remain viable on clothing for about 1 month. Head lice can survive for about a week off of their human host. Lice are transmitted from person to person with close contact or by sharing personal items. Lice may crawl from host to host, but they do not hop, jump, or fly. Lice has no social or economical preference….they don’t care how clean a head is, how often someone bathes, or how clean one’s environment is…..they just want hair and a scalp to call home. Lice are not known to spread disease. There are an estimated 6-12 million lice infestations in children ages 3-11 in the US each year (CDC). To help prevent the spread of lice, children should not share clothing, hats, helmets, combs/brushes, or bedding. Please periodically remind your child of this. Some signs to watch for that might indicate your child has lice include an itchy scalp, a tickling sensation on the scalp, difficulty sleeping, and sores on the head from scratching. It’s a good idea to check your child’s head weekly even if symptoms are not present. It can take about 15 minutes to do a thorough check, especially in persons with longer, thicker hair. Lice typically like to hang out behind the ears or on the back of the head near the neckline. Laundering bedding and clothing and vacuuming floors, especially where persons with lice slept or sat can help get rid of lice. If clothing can’t be laundered, it can be sealed in a plastic bag for 2-3 weeks to help eliminate the lice or nits. Various insecticide sprays are marketed to target head lice on inanimate objects such as helmets, furniture, and flooring, but these are very dangerous to children and are no longer recommended. Children do not need to leave school or stay home if they have lice. The 14 day treatment regimen can be done in the evening after school and students can return to class after appropriate treatment has begun.
You may see nits for several weeks after treatment, but live lice should no longer be visible. If you find lice or nits, PLEASE let the school know. We can’t help reduce the risk of transmission if we don’t know. We will not single your child out or tell other parents about individual students.
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Risk of Tick Exposure and Tick Bites
CCA Illness Policy
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Please report your child's illness and please review the following guidelines about student illnesses:
- Please notify the school if your child is going to be absent or tardy for any reason.
- If the absence is due to an illness, please let us know your child’s symptoms (i.e. nausea, vomiting, fever, headache, sore throat, cough, rash, body aches, etc.).
- If your child sees their healthcare provider for the illness, please let us know the outcome of that visit and if your child was diagnosed with a contagious disease. This will help us track illnesses, identify outbreaks, and allow us to notify the health department if a reportable communicable disease is identified.
- If your child is ill and has a fever (100 or higher), they should not return to school until they are fever-free for 24 consecutive hours without the aid of fever-reducing medications.
- If your child is vomiting, they should not return until they have not vomited for 24 hours.
- If your child is being treated for a contagious bacterial infection (i.e strep throat), they should not return to school until 24 hours after antibiotics are started and until they are fever-free for 24 consecutive hours without the aid fever-reducing medications.
The school nurse or office personnel will evaluate students who become ill at school. If it is determined that the child is too sick to remain in school, a parent/guardian will be called and asked to come and pick the child up.
Thanks for your help in adhering to these guidelines that will help keep our school healthy and decrease the risks of spreading contagious diseases.
Health Services Staff
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Kathy Campbell
Director of Health Services
kathycampbell@ccaschools.org
(319) 828-4510Jessica Kelso
Health Aide
jessicakelso@ccaschools.org
CCA High School
(319) 545-2361Whitney Eister
School Nurse
whitneyeister@ccaschools.org
CCA Middle School
(319) 545-4490Laura Roling
Health Aide
lauraroling@ccaschools.org
Amana Elementary
(319) 622-3255Tia Wiebold
Health Aide
tiawiebold@ccaschools.org
Clear Creek Elementary
(319) 828-4505Breanne Tanke
School Nurse
breannetanke@ccaschools.org
North Bend Elementary
(319) 626-3950Lisa Stevens
School Nurse
lisastevens@ccaschools.org
Oak Hill Elementary
(319) 545-2248Katie Sloan
School Nurse
katiesloan@ccaschools.org
Tiffin Elementary
(319) 545-2081