Amebiasis
Your child is required to remain home.
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
- 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 is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.