I would recommend that your student go to urgent care nearby campus instead of student health sometimes, because they get better treatment or get treated like a regular adult.

My son had a three day wait for the student health services when he was sick at an out of state public, but then went to a private urgent care. Five minute walk from his dorm and got great service and then the pharmacy nearby at CVS just took our insurance. Total cost of about 30 bucks.

Agree with the others to send a box of meds with instructions in sharpie on each med as well as taped to the inside of the box. Include what you'd want them to have in a pinch, without needing to go to the store. You don't want them calling you in the middle of the night just for you to tell them to take pepto for nausea, for example, or ibuprofen for a headache, though that might happen too, if they forget that they even have the box of meds, lol.

This is the beginning of their own medical decision-making. Send with them whatever you would give them at home if they were sick.

Make sure they are aware of the student health center and in what circumstances they would go there.

Put together your ‘Bucket o Meds’ - a Rubbermaid container with all the stuff- Imodium, Tums, Tylenol, NyQuil, Sudafed, condoms, etc. I wrote on the outside of the packages so my kid would know what the generic stuff was, I also put a sheet of paper on the inside lid that had the numbers for Health Services and the address and phone number of the closest ER, along with their health insurance info. Did most of the stuff come back unopened? Yes. But when they did get the crud freshman year it was very appreciated