Mononucleosis

Your child is  required to remain home.

Cause/Symptoms:

• Epstein-Barr Virus.
  
• Fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes in neck, fatigue.

Transmission:

• Person to person by direct contact with saliva.
  

Incubation:

• 4 to 6 weeks.
  

Period of Communicability:

• Prolonged; may persist up to 1 year or more.
  

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

• Your child can eat and drink normally
• Your child can participate in all daycare activities
  
• A doctors note stating your child 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

If your child puts items in his/her month, your child will have to be separated from the other children

Your child is required to remain home for at least forty-eight (48) hours, if not longer.