Medical Exclusions Table

Medical Exclusions Table
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Medical Exclusions Table
Exclusion periods table
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The minimum period of exclusion from primary schools and children's services for infectious diseases cases and contacts (Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019, Schedule 7)
Conditions
Exclusion of cases
Exclusion of contacts
Chickenpox
Exclude until all blisters have dried. This is usually at least 5 days after the rash appears in unimmunised children, but may be less in previously immunised children
Any child with an immune deficiency (for example, leukaemia) or receiving chemotherapy should be excluded for their own protection. Otherwise not excluded
Conjunctivitis
Exclude until discharge from eyes has ceased
Not excluded
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Diarrhoeal illness
In an outbreak of gastroenteritis, exclude until there has not been vomiting or a loose bowel motion for 48 hours, and for all other diarrhoeal illnesses exclude until there has not been vomiting or a lose bowel motion for 24 hours
Not excluded
Diphtheria
Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is received following at least two negative throat swabs, the first not less than 24 hours after finishing a course of antibiotics and the other 48 hours later
Exclude family/household contacts until cleared to return by the Chief Health Officer
Glandular fever
(Epstein-Barr Virus infection)
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Hand, Foot and Mouth disease
Exclude until all blisters have dried
Not excluded
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
Exclude until 48 hours after initiation of effective therapy
Not excluded
Hepatitis A
Exclude until a medical certificate of recovery is received, but not before 7 days after the onset of jaundice or illness
Not excluded
Hepatitis B
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Hepatitis C
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Herpes (cold sores)
Young children unable to comply with good hygiene practices should be excluded while the lesion is weeping. Lesions to be covered by dressing, where possible
Not excluded
Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Impetigo
Exclude until appropriate treatment has commenced. Sores on exposed surfaces must be covered with a watertight dressing
Not excluded
Influenza and influenza like illnesses
Exclude until well
Not excluded unless considered necessary by the Chief Health Officer
Leprosy
Exclude until approval to return has been given by the Chief Health Officer
Not excluded
Measles
Exclude for at least 4 days after onset of rash
Immunised contacts not excluded. Unimmunised contacts should be excluded until 14 days after the first day of appearance of rash in the last case. If unimmunised contacts are vaccinated within 72 hours of exposure with any infectious case, or received Normal Human Immunoglobulin (NHIG) within 144 hours of exposure of any infectious case, they may return to the facility
Meningitis (bacterial other than meningococcal meningitis)
Exclude until well
Not excluded
Meningococcal infection
Exclude until adequate carrier eradication therapy has been completed
Not excluded if receiving carrier eradication therapy
Mumps
Exclude for 5 days or until swelling goes down (whichever is sooner)
Not excluded
Molluscum contagiosum
Exclusion is not necessary
Not excluded
Pertussis (Whooping cough)
Exclude the child for 21 days after the onset of cough or until they have completed 5 days of a course of antibiotic treatment
Contacts aged less than 7 years in the same room as the case who have not received three effective doses of pertussis vaccine should be excluded for 14 days after the last exposure to the infectious case, or until they have taken 5 days of a course of effective antibiotic treatment
Poliovirus infection
Exclude for at least 14 days from onset. Re admit after receiving medical certificate of recovery
Not excluded
Ringworm, scabies, pediculosis (head lice)
Exclude until the day after appropriate treatment has commenced
Not excluded
Rubella (German measles)
Exclude until fully recovered or for at least four days after the onset of rash
Not excluded
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Exclude until medical certificate of recovery is produced
Not excluded unless considered necessary by the Chief Health Officer
Shiga toxin or Verotoxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC or VTEC)
Exclude if required by the Chief Health Officer and only for the period specified by the Chief Health Officer
Not excluded
Streptococcal infection
(including scarlet fever)
Exclude until the child has received antibiotic treatment for at least 24 hours and the child feels well
Not excluded
Tuberculosis (excluding latent tuberculosis)
Exclude until receipt of a medical certificate from the treating physician stating that the child is not considered to be infectious
Not excluded
Typhoid fever (including paratyphoid fever)
Exclude until approval to return has been given by the Chief Health Officer
Not excluded unless considered necessary by the Chief Health Officer
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