Chicken Pox's Policy

Your child is required to remain home

Cause/Symptoms

• Virus
• Fever
• Blister-like rash occurs over 5 to 6 days. Scabs form after the blister stage
• Rash usually appears first on the body, face and scalp, and then later spreads to the arms and legs

Transmission

• Person to person by direct contact with virus through droplet or airborne spread of blister fluid or respiratory secretions Indirectly through freshly contaminated objects and surfaces

Incubation

• 10 to 21 days; commonly 14 to 16 days

Period of Communicability

• As long as 5 days, but usually 1 to 2 days before onset of rash, until all blisters are crusted, usually about 5 days after the onset of rash

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

• A least 14 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
• All the blisters have dried up
• Child can join in the activities
• A doctor's note is required stating your child is no longer contagious
• Your child can eat and drink normally
• The daycare's fever policy has been followed

Your child is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.