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 met:

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

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