ILLNESS GUIDELINES

Promoting good health and safety is a goal at daycare. To prevent the spread of childhood

diseases and illness please do not bring your child that is ill to the daycare.

If your child comes down with a communicable disease you need to notify me right away.

Children with a contagious illness will not be allowed in daycare until they are properly

medicated. A child must be on the antibiotic 24 hours before returning to the daycare or as doctor advised if longer.

Sense of Wonder Child Care will exclude any child who exhibits any of the following:

1. Fever of 100 degrees or higher. (Needs to be fever free for 24 hours)

WITHOUT THE USE OF A FEVER REDUCING MEDICINE

2. Diarrhea (2 or more stools while here that differ from normal bm) *

3. Vomiting (2 or more times during the day) *

4. Draining rash anywhere on the body – must be gone before returning

5. Eye discharge – Pink eye or from a cold- must be gone before returning

6. Lice or nits – can return only after being free of them for 24 hours *

7. Communicable disease: chicken pox, measles, etc. must be gone before

returning to daycare

8. Consistent complaints of ear, stomach or headaches, or other pain

9. Any color of nasal discharge, it must be clear before returning to daycare

unless it is a severe clear runny nose, then they need to remain home until it

becomes a mild runny nose – wiping it less than every 15 minutes or so.

10. Severe coughing- congested, with phlegm, gets red in the face, gags, throws

up, or high pitched whooping or croup sounds – must be mild before returning

to daycare.

Even a child that is too tired to participate in normal daily activities or requiring more

attention than usual should be kept at home. Example, excessive runny nose: I would have

to be constantly wiping the nose, washing my hands and the child’s hands, and any toys they

may have touched as well. This is taking more time than usual and away from our daily

activities and the other children. Please call ahead if you are unsure on whether to bring

your child, let me be the one to decide.

• Before returning your child to daycare they MUST BE free of all

symptoms for 24 hours from the last onset of symptom.

MEDICATIONS

Before we can administer any prescription or non-prescription medications to your child

you will need to do the following:

1. Keep them home for 24 hours after the first dose ~ for possible allergic reactions

2. Sign a Medication Authorization Form

All medications must be brought in the original container with the following information on the label: Child’s name, Prescription name, Doctors name, dosage, Pharmacy name and phone number, Instructions for administering, & dates the medication is to be used for.

Non prescription medications may include but are not limited to:

1. Antihistamines,

2. NON-aspirin fever reducing/pain reliever

3. Decongestants

4. Anti-itching ointment or lotions

5. Diaper rash ointments or lotions

6. Sun screen

7. Cough syrup

8. Teething gels

9. Insect repellant

These must be sent in original containers. If any of them will be taken differently than

indicated on the labels or for more than 5 days, we will need a note from the physician.

If you fail to bring your child’s prescription medication to daycare you will be asked to go

home and get it, or take the child home and give them the required dosage.

We have a medication log that you can review at any time to see when your child was given

his/her medications. Plus a note giving the times and dosage administered at daycare will

be on your daily reports.

If a child will be on long terms meds, or as needed medications like asthma inhalers, a note

from your doctor will be required to put in our files.

Medications that are not being used must be sent back home. Only asthma type

medications can be kept here to be used when needed.