Roseola

Your child is required to remain home.

Cause/Symptoms:

• Virus. 
  
• Sudden onset of fever lasting 3-5 days, followed by fine, pink rash on trunk and body.

Transmission:

• Person to person by direct contact with respiratory secretions.
  

Incubation:

• 9 to 10 days.
  

Period of Communicability:

• contagious until one or two days after the fever subsides
  

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

• Your child is eating and drinking normally
• Your child can participate in all daycare activities
• Rash is gone
  
• At least 4 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis
  

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

Your child is required to remain home for at least four (4) days, if not longer.