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Health & Wellness
Success Starts with a Healthy Body and Mind
St. Christopher's promotes an integrated and holistic approach to the well-being of every boy. Our health and wellness team works to foster academic and personal success in our Saints by attending to their physical and emotional health needs.
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Medical Services
We provide medical care to all of our boys on campus, through professional delivery of medical triage, effective communication between the medical team, students and families, and collaboration with academic and athletic programs.
Our medical team consists of two full-time nurses (one in Lower School, one in the Middle/Upper Schools) a part-time nurse for Extended Day, and Director of Health and Wellness, Ann Vanichkachorn, M.D. In addition, we have a full-time athletic trainer on staff.
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Respiratory Illness
RESPIRATORY ILLNESS MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS:The following summarizes the latest respiratory illness management recommendations from the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).Symptoms of a respiratory virus can include fever, chills, sneezing, fatigue (tiredness), cough, runny nose, and headache, among others. See this fact sheet for symptoms of common respiratory illnesses.- If your child has respiratory symptoms:
- Use precautions such as : increased hand washing, covering cough and sneeze, distancing from others, optional masking, and monitoring for fever.
- Seek health care promptly for testing and/or treatment and provide divisional nurses with a return to school note from the medical provider.
- Respiratory illness symptoms can be from viral forms (COVID-19, Flu, Adenovirus, RSV, Parvovirus B19) or bacterial illness (Strep, pneumonia). Health care provider evaluation for proper diagnosis of respiratory illness symptoms may help lower the risk of severe illness and spread of illness to others.
- If at any point your son’s symptoms worsen, or he has an emergency warning sign (like trouble breathing or chest pain), seek medical care immediately.
- If your child tests positive for COVID:
- Please notify your divisional school nurse.
- Keep your son home and away from others when sick with symptoms.
- Your son may go back to normal activities/return to school when, for at least 24 hours, both of these are true:
- His symptoms are getting better overall, AND
- He has not had a fever (without the use of fever-reducing medication).
- It is recommended that your son take added precautions for the next five days.
- If he starts to feel worse or get a fever after returning to normal activities, keep him home and away from others again and follow the steps above.
- If your child has respiratory symptoms:
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Strep Throat
Symptoms include but are not limited to severe sore throat, fever, congestion, cough and fatigue. If your son has been diagnosed with strep, he may return to school 24 hours after the start of his antibiotic. -
Influenza (Flu)
Symptoms include high fever, muscle pain, headache, extreme fatigue with or without gastrointestinal symptoms. Please remain at home until fever-free for a minimum of 24 hours without any use of anti-fever medications (Motrin, ibuprofen, Tylenol) to limit the spread of disease on campus. CDC recommends that everyone over the age of 6 months receive the annual flu vaccine. It is not too late to get this year’s vaccine. -
Gastrointestinal Illness
Symptoms include stomach cramping, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea with or without fever, chills or headaches. Affected students will be sent home and be asked not to return until 24 hours past the last episode of vomiting or diarrhea. -
Head Lice
We encourage families to be proactive in checking for lice if the boys exhibit symptoms. If you suspect head lice, please consult your pediatrician regarding whether over the counter or prescription treatments are needed.Please CLICK HERE for more information.
Privacy
All members of St Christopher’s School are guided by state and federal privacy laws protecting patient information in the healthcare setting. In general, information is only shared with faculty and staff on a need-to-know basis to ensure the student’s safety and welfare if parental permission is granted in Magnus.
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