Each Lake Havasu Unified school has a Health Office with a nurse available at least part-time. The nurse's primary mission is to support the educational process by implementing strategies that promote student and staff safety and wellness.

School policy requests a child stay home if he or she:

Has a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher.

• Keep your child home until his or her fever—100.4 or higher—has been gone for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication.

Has been vomiting or has diarrhea without a fever.

• Keep your child home 24 hours after the last vomiting or diarrhea episode.

Has symptoms that keep him or her from participating in school, such as:

• Very tired or lack of appetite.

• Cough that he or she cannot control.

• Shortness of breathe or difficulty breathing.

• Moderate to severe headache, body aches, or earache.

• Sore throat—a minor sore throat is ok for school, but a severe sore throat could be strep throat, even if there is no fever.

• New loss of taste or smell.