Measles and Mumps

Your child is required to remain home.

Rubella (German Measles)

Cause/Symptoms:

• Virus. 
• Low-grade fever, headache, malaise, runny nose, red eyes, enlarged tender neck nodes.
• Rash starts on the face, spreads in 24 hours and lasts 3 days.

Transmission:

• Person to person by direct contact with respiratory secretions. 
• Highly contagious.

Incubation:

• 14 to 21 days

Period of Communicability:

• For about 1 week before the rash starts until 7 days after the onset of the rash.

Your child can return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:

• At least 7 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
  
• Child is eating and drinking normally
• Child can participate in all daycare activities
• A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required.
  

Fever

• 24 hours from the time the fever reducing medication are out of your child system (8 to 10 hours after taking last dose) and fever has not returned
• 24 hours free of any fever reducing medication or any other medication that can mask symptoms of illness.
• If no medication is given: 24 hours starting one (1) hour after you discover your child’s fever has broken

Mumps

Cause/Symptoms:

• Virus.
• Fever, swelling and tenderness of salivary glands slightly above the angle of the jaw, on 1 or both sides.

Transmission:

• Person to person by direct contact with respiratory secretions or saliva.

Incubation:

• 14 to 25 days; average 16 to 18 days.

Period of Communicability:

• 7 days before to 9 days after symptoms develop.

Your child can return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:

• A least 14 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
  
• Child is eating and drinking
• Child can participate in all daycare activities
• A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required
  

Fever

• 48 hours from the time the fever reducing medication are out of your child system (8 to 10 hours after taking last dose) and fever has not returned
• 48 hours free of any fever reducing medication or any other medication that can mask symptoms of illness.
• If no medication is given: 48 hours starting one (1) hour after you discover your child’s fever has broken

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