Typhoid Fever
Your child is required to remain home.
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
- Bacteria.
- Low grade fever, headache, malaise, myalgia, dry cough, anorexia, nausea, and abdominal discomfort.
- Constipation is more common than diarrhea in adults but diarrhea is more common in children.
Transmission:
- Fecal-oral route.
- Direct contact with contaminated water, shellfish, particularly oysters, milk, ice-cream, raw fruit and vegetables grown in fields fertilized with fecal matter.
Incubation:
- From 3 days to over 60 days; usual range is 8-14 days.
Period of Communicability:
- Variable.
- Usually 1 to 2 weeks.
Your child can return to daycare, once all the following criteria has been meet:
Diarrhea
- Your child can eat and drink normally
- Your child can participate in all daycare activities
- A least 14 days have passed since the onset of symptoms/diagnosis.
- A doctors note stating your child is no longer contagious is required.
Diarrhea
- 24 hours from the time the diarrhea reducing medication are out of your child system (8 to 10 hours after taking last dose) and diarrhea has not returned
- 24 hours free of any diarrhea reducing medication or any other medication that can mask symptoms of illness.
- If no medication is given: 24 hours starting one (1) hour after your child's last diarrhea bowel movement
- 24 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
- 24 hours free of any fever reducing medication or any other medication that can mask symptoms of illness.
- If no medication is given: 24 hours starting one (1) hour after you discover your child’s fever has broken
Your child is required to remain home for at least fourteen (14) days, if not longer.