Meeting with the school nurse is imperative if a food or insect allergy is known, so that a specific and individualized protocol/plan can be developed if appropriate. Depending on the type of allergy, the age of the student, medicine may also be kept at school for reactions.

Ulcerative colitis is very rarely life threatening. Cases of toxic megacolon or excessive bleeding due a very severe flare-up where the colon swells up massively can be life threatening, which is why surgery is undertaken quickly if these conditions develop. Normally, ulcerative colitis is a chronic, life-long illness, characterized by periods of few symptoms, known as remission, and periods of very active disease, known as flare-ups. Ulcerative colitis is not a strictly genetic disease.

No, however, IBS is serious. Patients with IBS have a higher rate of hospitalizations, work absenteeism, feelings of poor quality of life, and abdominal surgeries than healthy controls and patients with other gastrointestinal illnesses. In the general population, people with IBS symptoms missed more than 3 times as many work days than did people without bowel symptoms.

Crohn's disease is very rarely life threatening. Normally, Crohn's disease is a chronic, lifelong illness characterized by sporadic flare-ups separated by periods of remission. Occasionally, a complication such as a severe abscess or a large fistula connecting the intestine to another internal organ can set the stage for a life-threatening infection. In addition, Crohn's disease may require surgery; all surgical procedures involve the risk of life-threatening complications.

Most schools have a no-nit policy to control head lice outbreaks. Generally, when you have completed one pediculicidal treatment & one olive oil treatment (or two olive oil treatments) and a thorough nit combing and manually removed all nits, you can send your child back to school. At this point, there should be nothing left on the head that is capable of moving onto another head. However, this does not mean your child is lice free.

Each September we ask the schools to identify to the Transportation Department, any students who have a life threatening medical condition by having the parents/guardians complete one of our Life Threatening Medical Alert forms. If your child has a life threatening condition please fill out the appropriate form and return it to the school. Forms can be obtained from your school.

In numerous recent studies, regardless of treatment, the long-term survival rate for women with DCIS is nearly 100%.

Vascular calcification can be scored with EBCT (Electron Beam Computer Tomography). There is a strong correlation between mortality and increasing EBCT scores.

If your child has a temperature in the morning, please do not administer medication and send him/her to school. If the temperature is 100 or over, he/she must be kept home the following day. If your child is sent home with a fever or vomiting he/she must stay home the next day. Your child must be free of fever and vomiting for 24 hours.

The Child Support Guidelines are guidelines passed by the Ohio legislature which calculate child support orders based upon the financial circumstances of both parents. Use of these guidelines is required for the establishment or modification of all child support orders in Ohio. The amount of child support which is calculated using the worksheets and schedules contained in these guidelines is presumed under the law to be the correct amount of child support in each case.

The safety and well-being of our campers is a top priority of our directors and staff. Campers are supervised 24 hours a day. The mentor staff lives in the residence halls with the campers and joins in all their evening activities.

Consistent with current FDA and ClinicalTrials.gov guidance, the NIH interprets ”serious and life-threatening disease or condition” to mean: (1) diseases or conditions where the likelihood of death is high unless the course of the disease is interrupted and (2) diseases or conditions with potentially fatal outcomes, where the endpoint of clinical trial analysis is survival.

Sleep apnea is a medical condition that will cause you to lose sleep, and to stop breathing several times a night. One thing that most people don't realize is that you do stop breathing, and this can lead to additional stress on your body. Sure you know you are tired, and that is a lot of stress in itself, but there are also times that the stress on you body is going to be that of your organs, your heart, your lungs and in the long term, your brain.

For requests such as these, we work on a case-by-case basis for individual children through wish-granting organizations like the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We suggest you contact the main office of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and they can refer you to the office closest to you. Their number is (800) 722-9474. You may also contact them via their official Web site at www.wish.org.

For requests such as these, we work on a case-by-case basis for individuals through wish granting organizations such as the Dream Foundation. We suggest you contact the main office of the Dream Foundation to see if they might be able to assist you. Their number is (805) 564-2131. You may also contact them via their official Web site, at: www.dreamfoundation.org

Although IBS has troublesome symptoms, it is not a life-threatening disease. However, it can be serious because it can hinder the normal activity of a person du

Coverage may be denied because there is a specific exclusion in your policy for obesity surgery, or "treatment of obesity", which is manifestation of the attitude of our society toward obesity, and the discrimination which obese persons suffer. Such an exclusion can often be attacked, by the reasoning that the surgical treatment is recommended as the best therapy for the co-morbidities, which usually are covered. Coverage may also be denied for lack of "medical necessity".