2009 H1N1 Flu Information for FAMILIES
Download these resources to help prepare and protect your family!
New Brochure on Caring for Someone Ill
H1N1 Flu Facts for
Families with Children
Talking
with Children about Pandemic Flu (English)
Talking
with Children about Pandemic Flu (Spanish)
Letter to Parents from Daycare Providers
DPH Flu Fact Sheet for Families
Caring for Someone with Flu (Spanish)
Caring for someone with Flu (Chinese)
Keep Your Child Home Fact Sheet
Dealing with Emotional Response to Public Health Emergencies
One of the most important things we can do as a community to help stop the spread of H1N1 is to keep sick people away from healthy people. This means keeping our kids home from school if they have flu-like illness and staying home from work when we are ill. Here are some tips:
Answer these questions every morning before sending your child to school or daycare:
1. Does your child have a fever (100º F or 37. 7ºC)? If you don’t have a thermometer, feel your child’s skin with your hand. If it is much warmer than usual your child probably has a fever.
2. Does your child have a sore throat, cough, body aches, vomiting, or diarrhea?
If you answered “yes” to both questions above, your child might have the flu. Keep your child home from school for 7 calendar days, or until symptoms are gone for 24 hours, whichever is longer.
If you checked “yes” to only one of the questions above, keep your child home from school until symptoms are gone for 24 hours.
When should my child go to the doctor?
Call your health care provider if your child is ill enough that you would normally see a health care provider. Use the same judgment you would use during a normal flu season. If you would not usually see a health care provider for the symptoms your child has now, you do not need to see a health care provider. You can use the Self-Evaluation Tool on the CDC website for more help in deciding whether or not to go to the doctor.
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