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December's Healthful Holiday Help

December, with all its holiday activities, doesn't mean we have to pack on the pounds from all that holiday food.  Click here for some helpful tips from BJC Health Care.

 
Choose MyPlate.gov

                                            

We now have MyPlate as a guide to hepl people make healthier choices.  This change was based on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines.  A place setting can help remind people to make healthier food choices.  According to USDA's MyPlate website, there are some guidelines to follow.

Balancing Calories

  • Enjoy your food, but eat less.
  • Avoid oversize portions.

Food to Increase

  • Make hald your plate fruits and vegetables.
  • Make at least your grains whole grains.
  • Switch to fat-free or low fat(1%) milk.

Foods to Reduce

  • Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals-choose the foods with lower numbers.
  • Drink water instead of sugary drinks.

This information taken from the USDA's MyPlate homepage which is linked here@ http://wwwchoosemyplate.gov/tipsresources/printmaterials.html. 

 
The Flu: A guide for parents

The Flu: A guide for parents:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/freesources/family/fluguideparents.pdf

 

 

 
Heart Smart Snacking

 Healthy snacking is recommended for everyone!

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INFECTIONS

Every child gets sick from time to time.  When your child isn't feeling well, you'll want to know how to recognize the symptoms, how to help, and when to call the doctor.  Find out what you need to know about all the common and not - so - common infections.

http://kidshealth.org/PageManger.jsp?dn=S S M CardinalGlennon ChildrensMedicalCenter&lic=377&cat id = 10009&ps = 103

 
Pertussis What are the symptoms

Symptoms normally begin 6 to 21 days (average 7 - 10 days)  after becoming infected and may last 6 - 10 weeks.  Early symptoms are similar to a cold: runny nose, sneezing, mild cough, and may include a low grade fever.  Within two weeks, the cough may become much worse with fits of coughing that continue for weeks.  This cough may be followed by a "whooping" gasp sound to breath in the air.  Coughing is often worse at night and cough medicines usually do not help reduce the cought.  Between coughing fits, the person often appears to be well.  Vomiting may occur after a coughing fit. 

An infant's cough may be minimal with spell of apnea (failure to breath) or pauses in breathing pattern.

 
Immunization Updates are Needed for New Students

 Make sure the school has your updated immunization records!

 
Over the counter medication forms

 Parents:

If you would like to have your child or children to have any over the counter medication for the 2012-2013 school year I have copies of this form at school or you may use the form on this link. You need to have a doctor sign the bottom of the form. Thanks for your cooperation in this matter. 
 
Mrs. Joyce Simons
 
 

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Immunization Update
2012 - 2013 School Year

School Children

Effective beginning the 2011-2012 school year the following  requirements will be implemented.

Kindergarten Students for 2012 - 2013 school year

  • Second dose of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine for all children entering kindergarten.

  • If the kindergarten child has had varicella (chickenpox) disease, a licensed doctor of medicine (MD) or a doctor of osteopathy (DO) may sign and place on file with the school a written statement documenting the month and year of previous varicella (chickenpox) disease as satisfactory evidence of having had the disease.  parental or guardian statements of disease will no longer be accepted beginning with the 2010-2011 school year for children entering kindergarten.

  • This rule applies to children entering kindergarten and thereafter.  For children enrolled in grades one (1) through five (5), only one dose of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine required.  Parental or guardian  statements of disease continue to be acceptable.

Eighth Grade Student for 2012 - 2013 school year

  • Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccine will be required for all incoming eighth (8th) grade students if the child has completed the recommended childhood DTaP/DTP vaccination series and has not received a Td booster within the past two (2) years.

  • For children enrolled in grades nine (9) through twelve (12) who have not received a single dose of Td, it is highly recommended they receive a single dose of Tdap as their catch-up booster instead of Td or receive one dose of the Tdap two years after the last Td dose.

Day Care, Preschool, Nursery School Children

  • Effective July 1 2010 the following new requirements will be implemented:

  • Age appropriate pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) for children attending day care, preschool, or nursery school caring for ten or more children.

  • For all children who have had the varicella  (chickenpox) disease, a licensed doctor of medicine (MD) or doctor of osteopathy (DO) may sign and place on file with the child care facility a written statement documenting the month and year of the previous varicella ( chickenpox) disease as satisfactory evidence of having had the disease.  Parental or guardian statements of the disease will no longer be acceptable beginning July 1, 2010 - 2011.

  • For additional information, contact the Bureau of Immunization Assessment and Assurance at 573-751-6124.  Our public health system relies on every dedicated health professional to ensure the health of Missourians.

Request from parents
2012 - 2013

Pre - School - Pre 3yr - paper towels

Jr. K - 1 box of character band-aids

Kindergarten - Candy mints - soft pastels - not hard candy

1st. Grade - 1 bag of plastic cups or box

2nd Grade - 1 box of zip loc baggies - quart size

3rd Grade - 1 bag of Halls Fruit Breezers cough drops not Ludens

4th Grade - 1 box or bottle of Children's Tylenol, Motrin, or Ibuprofen liquid or tabs

5th Grade - 1 bag of Oyster crackers

6th Grade - 1 box Ibuprofen, Motrin or Tylenol

7th Grade - 1 box cloth, regular, or laytex free band-aids

8th Grade - Large Band-Aids - 1 box cloth

Please do not bring Luden Cough Drops to school.

 

 
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