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Section 2. Recommendations for Care of Children in Special Circumstances
SCHOOL HEALTH
Infections Spread by Blood and Body Fluids 1
Contact with blood and other body fluids of another person requires more intimate exposure than usually occurs in the school setting. The care required for children with developmental disabilities, however, may result in exposure of caregivers to urine, saliva, and in some cases, blood. The application of Standard Precautions for prevention of transmission of bloodborne pathogens, as recommended for children in out-of-home child care, prevents spread of infection from these exposures (see Children in Out-of-Home Child Care, p 130). School staff members who routinely provide acute care for children with epistaxis or bleeding from injury should wear disposable gloves and use appropriate hand hygiene measures immediately after glove removal to protect themselves from bloodborne pathogens. Staff members at the scene of an injury or bleeding incident who do not have access to gloves need to use some type of barrier to avoid exposure to blood or blood-containing materials, use appropriate hand hygiene measures, and adhere to proper protocols for handling contaminated material. Routine use of these precautions helps avoid the necessity of identifying children known to be infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV) and acknowledges that unrecognized exposure poses at least as much risk as does exposure from an identified infected child.
During adolescence, the likelihood of infection attributable to HBV, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) increases in proportion to sexual activity. All children should be immunized against HBV before 13 years of age, and adolescents should be instructed in appropriate methods of prevention of STIs.
Students infected with
Related text in Red Book:
- Children in Out-of-Home Child Care
Red Book 2006: 130.[Extract] [Full Version] - Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Red Book 2006: 378-401.[Extract] [Full Version]
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