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

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

• 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
• The daycare fever policy has been followed
• A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required

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.

We can discuss your child's 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,
• The daycare fever policy has been followed.

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.