Amebiasis

Your child is required to remain home.

Cause/Symptoms: 

• Parasite,
  
• Abdominal distention and cramps, diarrhea or constipation, and rarely fever or chills,
  
• May be symptom free.
  

Transmission:

• Fecal-oral route. Food and water contaminated by an infected food handler or sewage.
  

Incubation:

• Few days to several months, commonly 2 to 4 weeks.
  

Period of Communicability:

• During the period that cysts are passed, which may continue for years.
  

We can discuss your child's return to daycare once all the following criteria has been met:

• 72 hours after completion of antibiotic treatment. Antibiotic treatments normally last ten (10) days,
• 24 hours starting one (1) hour after you discover your child no longer has the chills,
• Your child can participate in all the daycare activities,
• Your child is eating and drinking normally,
• At least 14 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis,
• A doctor's note is required stating your child is no longer contagious,
• The daycare diarrhea policy has been followed,
  
• The daycare fever policy has been followed,
• The daycare constipation policy has been followed.

Your child WILL be home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.