Sickness Policy
Please do not bring your child to the daycare if he or she is sick. Please use your best judgement if you feel that your child is too sick to be around the other children. Please call or message your teacher by 9am if you're child is not coming that day.
If your child has a contagious illness, they cannot come to the daycare until:
They have been cleared by a doctor stating that they are no longer contagious and are clear to be around other children (Usually 24 hours after antibiotic treatment has begun and/or 24 hours after symptoms have subsided, depending on the illness).
If your child is ill over a weekend or when away from the daycare, please be sure to let us know so thatwe can be aware in case the other children have possibly been exposed to a contagious illness. If we, the Daycare Providers, feel that your child is too sick to be at the daycare, we will call you to pick up your child ASAP. If your child has a fever of 100 degree or higher, we will call you to pick up your child ASAP. Your child must be picked up within an hour of us notifying you of the illness.
Your child cannot attend the daycare with a fever of 100 degree or higher and the child must be fever free for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to daycare. That means fever free without the aid of a fever reducing substance. Giving your child Tylenol to reduce the fever before arriving to daycare in the morning is unacceptable because the fever will reappear once again and the child will still have to be sent home. If the child has a fever of 100 degree or higher, we will call you to pick up your child as soon as possible.
Reasons why the child cannot come to daycare:
* Fever of 100 degrees or higher
* Cold with yellow or green nasal discharge
* Croup
* Strep Throat
* Gastroenteritis (Stomach Flu)
* Flu
* Persistent diarrhea (even if a reaction to antibiotics)
* Vomiting
* Ringworm
* Chicken Pox
* Hand Foot Mouth Disease (Herpangina)
* Coxsackie Virus
* Fifth Disease (Slapped Cheek Disease)
* ANY type of rash or blisters
* Mumps
* Impetigo
* Pink Eye
* Contagious Styes
* Head Lice
* MRSA
* Scabies
These are just examples of contagious illnesses of when your child needs to stay out of daycare. Each individual case is different and may require more or less time out.
We will require a doctor's note stating that the child is totally well and non-contagious in order to return. If you feel that your child is sick with a contagious illness, please verify with a doctor that your child is clear to come to daycare before bringing him/her to the daycare. This is for the protection of your child, all other children present and the daycare provider. Although a doctor's note will show that your child is cleared by a doctor, you must first abide by our sick policies, regarding when a child can or cannot come to daycare.
It is our hope to keep the daycare as germ-free and sick-free as possible. Once ONE child comes to the daycare sick, he or she is exposing everyone to that illness. It can be a horrible sick cycle! So let's keep it healthy.