Typhoid Fever

Your child is required to remain home.

Cause/Symptoms:

• 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:

• 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

Fever

• 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.