As you may know, flu can be easily spread from person to person. Therefore, we are taking steps to reduce the spread of flu in Tyler ISD. We want to keep our schools open to students and functioning in a normal manner during this flu season, but we need your help to do this.

Here are a few things you can do to help:

• Teach your children to wash their hands often with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub. You can set a good example by doing this yourself.
   

• Teach your children not to share personal items like drinks, food or unwashed utensils, and to cover their coughs and sneezes with tissues. Covering up their coughs or sneezes using the elbow, arm or sleeve instead of the hand when a tissue is unavailable.
   

• Know the signs and symptoms of the flu. The symptoms of H1N1 flu in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal influenza and include fever, sore throat and coughing.  Some people with H1N1 flu also have reported runny nose, lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. However, the presence of these symptoms does not necessarily mean H1N1 flu. Additional information on H1N1 flu can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU or http://www.flu.gov
   

• Keep sick children at home. To help prevent the spread of the flu viruses, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that students who do exhibit flu-like symptoms (fever with a cough or sore throat) should not attend school for at least 24 hours after fever is gone. Fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine. 
   

• Do not send children to school if they are sick. Any children who are determined to be sick while at school will be sent home. Keeping sick students at home means that they keep their viruses to themselves rather than sharing them with others.
   

• Plan ahead for illness.  Before you are faced with a sick child, find out what your employer’s procedures are for working from home while you care for children out of school.  If working from home is not possible, plan ahead for child care at home if your child gets sick.

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Immunization Clinics
(including flu shots)

Discovery Science Place Annex
302 N. Broadway
Tyler, TX 
903.510.5604

Immunization Clinic Hours:
Monday and Tuesday
8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
and
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday
8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
and
1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

1319 New Sunnybrook • Tyler, Texas 75701 • 903.262.1000

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