Yersinia
Your child is required to remain home.
Cause/Symptoms:
Transmission:
Incubation:
Period of Communicability:
- Bacteria.
- Diarrhea,
- Fever,
- Abdominal pain,
- Headache,
- In some cases a rash.
Transmission:
- Fecal-oral route.
- Direct contact with infected people or animals such as puppies or kittens or indirect contact with contaminated food and water.
Incubation:
- 3 to 7 days, usually under 10 days.
Period of Communicability:
- Usually 2-3 weeks.
Your child can return to daycare once all the following criteria has been meet:
Diarrhea
Fever
- 48 hours after completion of antibiotic therapy.
- Child is eating and drinking normally
- Child is able to participate in all daycare activities
- Your child is no longer in pain
- The rash is gone
- At 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
- 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 14 days, if not longer.