Nursing Department

11/14/2024 - Asthma Care

DPH issued a press release announcing the availability of resources to help patients, families, providers, and pharmacists identify and access the best options for timely and effective asthma care, particularly in the wake of the discontinuation of two commonly used inhaled treatments—Flovent® HFA and Flovent® Diskus by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). 

With respiratory season arrival, DPH reminds patients and providers of alternatives to discontinued asthma medication | Mass.gov

COVID-19 SYMPTOM CHECKLIST

Please check your child carefully for symptoms of COVID-19 each morning prior to sending them to school.  It is important that you notify the School Nurse of any illness during the school year, regardless of whether illness occurs at school or at home.  Symptoms include:

• Fever (100.0°F or higher), chills, or shaking chills
• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• New loss of taste or smell
• Muscle aches or body aches
• Cough (not due to other known cause, such as chronic cough)
• Sore throat, when in combination with other symptoms
• Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, when in combination with other symptoms
• Headache, when in combination with other symptoms
• Fatigue, when in combination with other symptoms
• Nasal congestion or runny nose (not due to other known causes, such as allergies), when in combination with other symptoms

If your child has any of the above symptoms, please keep them home and contact the school nurse for further guidance.