Ringworm (Tinea)

Your child is required to remain home.

Cause/Symptoms:

• Fungus. 
• Flat, well demarcated, red, circular patches with scaly or crusted border on the skin or scalp.
• The patches are often itchy.

Transmission:

• Person to person by direct skin to skin contact or indirectly from contact with contaminated objects or surfaces.

Incubation:

• 10 to 14 days for scalp; 4 to 10 days for other areas.

Period of Communicability:

• As long as lesions are present or until treatment is initiated.

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

With treatment

• The ringworm can be covered up (child can not get to it)
• 48 hrs after treatment has begun
  
• At least 72 hours have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
  

Without Treatment

• Once the infection is cleared-up
  

With treatment -
Your child is required to stay home for at least seventy-two (72) hours, if not longer.

Without treatment -
The length of time your child is required to stay home will depend on how long the infection takes to go away.