No medication will be sent home with a student. Parents or Guardians must pick up all medications, whether prescription or over-the-counter.

Parents/Guardians must supply the school with the medicine in its original container, a signed physician/health care provider order, and fill out a medication consent form. Prescription medication must be unexpired and in a prescription bottle/box with a pharmacy label that states the student's name, medication name, and medication dispensing directions. 

No District employee shall administer any medication that is not FDA-approved.

For more information, please refer to “LHISD Medication Administration Form & Policy 24-25”

Our district policy is to give the medicine in the morning before school, after school, and before bedtime while at home. We have limited space to store medicine.

No, all controlled medication must be delivered/picked up by the parent/guardian. 

Your child should stay home if they have had a fever of 100 degrees or higher within the last 24 hours, active vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours. Red, itchy eyes with discolored drainage present or a rash of unknown origin (especially if drainage is present).

This will vary depending on the illness. 

Your child may return after he/she has been fever free without fever-reducing medication for a full 24 hours.

A temperature of 100 degrees F or above orally, is considered a fever.

Yes! Please call the campus if your child is sick. This allows us to document the type of illnesses that are spreading.

Go back to your normal activities when BOTH are true: 
Your symptoms are getting better overall for at least 24 hours, AND you have had no fever for at least 24 hours (without using fever-reducing medication).

Parents/Guardians must supply the school with the inhaler and other attachments (spacers) in the original container with the student's name on the RX label. A medication form must be filled out along with an Asthma Action Plan form by the child's physician.

Parents/Guardians must supply the school with the EpiPen showing the student's name on the RX label. A medication form must be filled out along with an Allergy Action Plan by the child's physician.

No, we are an Allergy Aware District.

Nebulizer treatments for the 2024-2025 school year will not be performed by the campus Nurse.  Please speak with your physician about utilizing an inhaler with a chamber and mask for students requiring treatment throughout the day.

Yes, the campus nurse monitors the records and will notify you if your child is due for immunizations.

Your child must be current on vaccines or an original notarized Affidavit for Reasons of Conscience provided to be enrolled.

Parents must treat the child with an FDA-approved shampoo or cream rinse before returning to school and please report the occurrence to the school nurse. If head lice are discovered on your child at school, you will be called and given the option to pick him/her up. 

Your child is allowed one excused day to shampoo and remove nits.

No, these are not FDA approved and should be given at home.

All PK (4), K, 1, 3, 5 and 7th graders including all new students to LHISD are screened for vision & hearing.