A daycare center takes care of many children. It provides specific schedules for child activities. It is the best place for fun and learning for kids. Families where both the parents go out for work keep their kids in childcare center till they return. Children sent to daycare or childcare centers, playschools or creches are more likely to get sick. This is because, most often they are present around other children. So when your child becomes sick, it is better not to send him to the daycare center. Here are some situations when you should avoid sending your kid to a daycare center.
- When you find your kid with fever, lethargy, irritability, difficulty of breathing or persistent crying, you should not send him to daycare.
- Common cold is the most common infectious disease. If your kid is suffering from cold and other upper respiratory illnesses, allow him to stay at home.
- You must also keep your child at home when he is suffering from diarrhoea. Viral and bacterial infections may result in bloody and mucous stools. So it is better to have rest at home.
- Certain rashes are also an indication of infections. You can send the child to a care center if he is not linked with fever along with rashes.
- Provide rest for your kids till treatment is completed for infections like chicken pox and scabies. However, children having rashes from the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination are not contagious.
- Eye infections can easily spread from one person to other. So better keep your child safe at home till the infection is completely treated. Children who are seen with red and watery eyes are not generally kept at the daycare centers.
Apart from these, mouth ulcers and head lice are the other conditions where your child should be avoided to go to the daycare. This ensures the health and safety of your own as well as the other children in the daycare.
