Children should be excluded from the child care setting for the following:
- Illness preventing your child from comfortably participating in program activities
- Fever the previous 24 hours
- Signs suggesting illness
- Vomiting or diarrhea in the previous 24 hours
- Unexplainable rash or rash accompanied by fever
- Drainage or redness as possible indicators of conjunctivitis (“pink eye”)
- Impetigo
- Streptococcal pharyngitis (“strep throat”) until 24 hours after treatment has been initiated
- Ringworm - covered or uncovered.