Scabies
Your child is required to remain home.
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
- Caused by a mite burrowing under the skin
- Rash appears as bumps, patches or tiny red lines, usually between fingers and toes, and in skin folds. Intense itching, especially at night
Transmission:
- Direct skin to skin contact or indirect contact by sharing clothes or towels
Incubation:
- 2 to 6 weeks
Period of Communicability:
- From onset of symptoms until treated
We can discuss your child's return to daycare, once all the following criteria has been met:
- 72 hrs after treatment has been completed
If your child or you brings Scabies Bugs into the daycare and the daycare has to hire a professional to have them removed,
you are responsible for all cost of the professional removal of the Scabies bugs.
If your child brings in Scabies bugs more than once, the daycare has the right to terminate care.
you are responsible for all cost of the professional removal of the Scabies bugs.
If your child brings in Scabies bugs more than once, the daycare has the right to terminate care.
Your child is required to remain home for at least seventy-two (72) hours, if not longer.