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H1N1 Update:Monday, September 7, 2009 Dear Parents/Guardians, This letter is to inform you that this afternoon an AIS-R High School was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. This means that your child may or may not have come in contact with H1N1 virus during the course of the past few days. The incubation period for the H1N1 virus is up to 7 days. Please watch your child closely. If your child has a temperature 37.8 degrees C = 100 degrees F or higher and/or has flu symptoms such as severe coughing or sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue, vomiting or diarrhea, please keep your child at home. Students and extended household members with flu symptoms must stay at home (or remain off campus) until they are fever free for at least 24 hours. This should be determined without the use of fever-reducing medicines (any medicine that contains ibuprofen or acetaminophen). They must stay at home until at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever even if they are using antiviral medicines. Since younger children are more vulnerable to catching the flu, children in Daycare, Pre School and K1 are advised to stay home for 7 days after developing symptoms of the flu and must be fever free for at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications. At this point there is no need for siblings of students with flu symptoms to stay at home but they should be monitored closely. If you have a concern about your child missing an exam or being absent, please contact your child’s principal for more information. Anyone can get the flu (even healthy people), and serious problems from the flu can happen at any age. However, children under the age of 5 years, pregnant women, people with chronic medical conditions (such as pulmonary disease, including asthma, diabetes, neuromuscular disorders or heart disease), and people age 65 years and older are more likely to get complications from the flu. If your child or you are at higher risk and experience flu symptoms, please get a medical evaluation as soon as possible. For more information regarding H1N1 virus developments at school, please see Nurse's Office Info the school website: www.ais-r.edu.sa , under links or go directly to: www.ais-r.edu.sa/nurse.html Through this website we will give you regular updates and information. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the School Nurse at akuiper@ais-r.edu.sa Sincerely, Artien Kuiper, RN, Brian Matthews Ed.D.
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