Untreated, ear infections can lead to more serious complications, including mastoiditis (a rare inflammation of a bone adjacent to the ear), hearing loss, perforation of the eardrum, meningitis, facial nerve paralysis, and possibly -- in adults -- Meniere's disease.
DHEC publishes the School and Childcare Exclusion List each year. The Exclusion List explains how long an ill child, student, school employee, or childcare employee should stay out of school or childcare, and what is needed before the child/student or employee is permitted to return.
1 Pub.L. 107â110, 115 Stat. 2  The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001)  3 No Child Left Behind: An Overview.  4 No Child Left Behind.  5 To close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind..