Measles and Mumps
Your child is required to remain home.
Rubella (German Measles)
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been met:
- Virus
- Low-grade fever, headache, malaise, runny nose, red eyes, enlarged tender neck nodes
- Rash starts on the face, spreads in 24 hours and lasts 3 days
Transmission:
- Person to person by direct contact with respiratory secretions
- Highly contagious
Incubation:
- 14 to 21 days
Period of Communicability:
- For about 1 week before the rash starts until 7 days after the onset of the rash
We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been met:
- At least 7 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
- Child is eating and drinking normally
- Child can participate in all daycare activities
- The daycare fever policy has been followed
- A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required
Mumps
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:
- Virus,
- Fever, swelling and tenderness of salivary glands slightly above the angle of the jaw, on 1 or both sides.
Transmission:
- Person to person by direct contact with respiratory secretions or saliva.
Incubation:
- 14 to 25 days; average 16 to 18 days.
Period of Communicability:
- 7 days before to 9 days after symptoms develop.
We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:
- A least 14 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis,
- Child is eating and drinking,
- Child can participate in all daycare activities,
- A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required,
- The daycare fever policy has been followed.
Rubella - Your child is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.
Mumps - Your child is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.
Mumps - Your child is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.