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                  INFLUENZA (FLU)
Signs & Symptoms: Someone with the flu may be contagious before they have symptoms. Symptoms may include sore throat, fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite or feeling ill. Vomiting may be a symptom among young children but not usually among adults.
Spread: The flu is spread by contact with items that have been recently contaminated by secretions from an infected person’s nose or mouth. Annual vaccination for the flu is recommended for all children over 6 months of age, their families and all providers to reduce the spread of influenza.
Return to Facility: Child may return to care when symptoms including fever have subsided and the child is well enough to attend.
INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA
Signs & Symptoms: Viral diarrhea is common and is identified as looser and
more frequent stools than normal.
Spread: Infection is spread from hands that touch surfaces contaminated by germs from stool and then goes into the mouth. Children may have the virus in their stool for 1 to 2 days before they have symptoms. The illness usually occurs within 1 to 3 days after exposure.
Return to Facility: Children may return to care when the stool can be contained and the child has no other symptoms.
LICE
Signs & Symptoms: Complaints of itching, a tickling feeling of something moving in the hair, sores on the scalp caused by an allergic reaction to the bites or caused by scratching. Sores can sometimes become infected. Child may exhibit signs of irritability.
Spread: Lice is spread by tiny insects that lay eggs (nits) that look like grains of sand on the hair. Lice crawl from one person to another or may be transferred through clothing or the sharing of hair brushes or hair accessories such as hats, hair clips or hair ties. Head lice can be detected by looking closely through the hair and scalp for nits, nymphs or adults.
Return to Facility: Treating your child care facility for lice is an important task. Follow these steps:
1. Check all children and staff for lice.
2. Machine wash all washable items and bed linens that the infested child may have touched during the two days before treatment (to kill the lice and nits).
    Use the hot water cycle (130° F; 55° C) to wash items and dry using the hot cycle for at least 20 minutes.
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