SICK DAY GUIDELINES

• When to Keep Your Child Home, by the Lake County Health Department in English and Español
• Is It the Cold or the Flu? (Español) 

FLU / INFLUENZA

• Prevention
  • Flu Vaccine Fact Sheet ( English / Español )
• The best way to prevent the flu is by vaccination (Español) for everyone 6 months or older.
• Everyday Preventive Actions can Help Fight Germs like the Flu  (Español) to reduce the spread of germs. 
• Cold or Flu? How to Tell the Difference (Español)
• Flu Guide for Parents (Español) 

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)

• What You Should Know (English / Español)
  

OTHER

• Strep Throat  (Espanol)
• Norovirus Information ( English / Español ) 
• Hand Foot and Mouth Disease aka Coxsackie Virus (Espanol)
• Impetigo (Espanol)
• Ticks and risk of Lyme Disease
• Lyme Disease awareness and prevention 
• MRSA - Guide for parents
   

VACCINE PREVENTABLE CHILDHOOD DISEASES

MUMPS 

• Mumps Fact Sheet (Español)
• Vaccination Fact Sheet (Español) for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
• More research on Autism and MMR Vaccine: The two are not linked.

PERTUSSIS/ WHOOPING COUGH

• Pertussis Fact Sheet - LCHD ( English / Español )
• Pertussis: CDC Information
• Tdap vaccine information sheet (Español)

CHICKEN POX / VARICELLA

• Chicken Pox Fact Sheet (Español)
• Varicella Vaccine Information (Español)

MEASLES

• Measles disease and vaccination information (Español)
• Measles Rules - IL Administrative Code 
• More research on Autism and MMR Vaccine: The two are not linked.
  
  
  

MENINGIITIS

• Bacterial Meningitis 
• Meningitis Bacteriana (Español)
• Viral Meningitis
• Meningitis Viral (Español)