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.