Crieteria for Child Staying Home - Symptom List

• FEVER: 101 orally, 102 rectally, 100 axillary
• DIARRHEA AND COLDS: See next page for details.
• EAR INFECTIONS: Fever, or lethargy, nausea, vomiting, loose stools, drainage, irritability, tugging on ears. Child may return to center when on medication and 24 hours after constitutional symptoms are gone.
• EYE INFECTION: With yellow or green drainage. Child must be on medication 24 hours and have very little drainage before returning to center.
• COUGH: A wet wheezy cough with mucous secretion
• VOMITING: Recurring or with fever.
• SKIN INFECTION OR RASH: With drainage. Child having dried skin lesions may come to the center.
• LICE, SCABIES, ETC.: Child may return to the center after appropriate treatment and shampoo.
• OTHER COMMUNICABLE INFECTIONS: A child may return when infection symptoms have subsided and child is feeling better. In some instances, a physician's release may be required.