When to Keep Your Child Home

Fever: A temperature over 100.4°F. Your child may return after being fever-free for 24 hours without medication.
Diarrhea: Three or more watery, bloody, or loose stools within 24 hours, or a sudden onset of loose stools. Your child may return 48 hours after diarrhea resolves.
Vomiting: At least one unexplained episode. Your child may return 48 hours after the last episode.
Severe or Persistent Coughing: Your child may return after symptoms have been improving for 24 hours.
Unusual Yellowing of the Skin or Eyes: Your child may return with written clearance from a licensed healthcare provider.
Open Sores or Wounds Discharging Bodily Fluids: Your child may return after the rash has resolved, or when sores and wounds are dry or can be completely covered with a bandage.
Stiff Neck and Headache: When accompanied by one or more of the symptoms listed above.
Difficulty Breathing or Abnormal Wheezing
Complaints of Severe Pain
Severe Eye Lesions: Including lesions that are weeping or filled with pus.

We recommend that parents:

Plan for Backup Childcare: Arrange alternative care for days when your child is too sick to attend.
Inform Caregivers: Let your caregivers know what is wrong with your child, even when your child is staying home.
Follow Return-to-Care Requirements: Do not return your child to childcare earlier than recommended unless you have written clearance from a licensed healthcare provider.