| Chicken Pox |
13 - 17 Days |
Coughing and sneezing.
Also direct contact with weeping blisters. |
Fever and spots with a blister on top of each spot |
From up to 5 days before appear-ance of rash until lesions have crusted (usually about 5 days). |
Exclude from service for one week from date of appear-ance of rash. |
| * Hepatitis A |
15 - 50 days (average 28 - 30 days). |
From food or water con-taminated with faeces from an infected person; or by direct spread from an infected person. |
Nausea,
stomach pains, general sickness.
Jaundice a few days later. |
From about 2 weeks before signs appear until 1 week after jaundice starts. |
Exclude from service for 7 days from onset of jaundice. |
| * Hepatitis B |
6 weeks - 6 months (usually 2 - 3 months). |
Close physical contact with the blood or body fluids of an infected person. |
Similar to Hepatitis A. |
The blood and body fluids may be infectious several weeks before signs appear and until weeks or months later. A few are infectious for years. |
Exclude from service until well or as advised by GP. |
| * Measles (immun-isation usually prevents this illness) |
Usually 10 days to onset, 14 days to rash. |
Coughing and sneezing. Also direct contact with the nose / throat secretions of an infected person. |
Running nose and eyes, cough, fever and a rash. |
From the first day of illness until 4 days after the rash begins. |
Exclude from service for at least 4 days from onset of rash. |
| * Meningitis (Meningo-coccal) |
2 - 10 days (usually 3 - 4 days). |
Close physical contact such as sharing food and drinks, kissing, sleeping in the same room. |
Generally unwell, fever, headache, vomiting, sometimes a rash.
Urgent treatment is important! |
Until 24 hours after starting treatment with antibiotics. |
Exclude from service until well enough to return. |
| * Mumps (immun-isation usually prevents this illness) |
Usually 16 - 18 days. |
Contact with infected saliva - coughing, sneezing, kissing and sharing food or drink. |
Pain in jaw, then swelling in front of ear, and fever. |
For one week before swelling appears until 9 days after. |
Exclude from service until 9 days after swelling develops, or until child is well, whichever is sooner. |
| Ringworm |
10 - 14 days |
Contact with infected person's skin or with their clothes or personal items.
Also through con-taminated floors and shower stalls. |
Flat spreading ring-shaped lesions. |
While lesions are present, and while fungus persists on con-taminated material. |
Restrict contact activities e.g. gym and swimming until lesions clear. |
| * Salmo-nella |
6 - 72 hours (usually 12 - 36 hours). |
Under-cooked food like chicken, eggs and meat; food or water con-taminated with faeces from an infected person or animal; or direct spread from an infected person or animal. |
Stomach pain, fever and diarrhoea. |
Until well, and possibly weeks or months after. |
Exclude from service until well with no further diarr-hoea. |
Strepto-coccal
Sore Throat |
1 - 5 days |
Usually contact with the secretions of a strep sore throat. |
Headache, vomiting, sore throat. |
For 24 - 48 hours after treatment with antibiotics is started. |
Exclude from service until 24 hours after anti-biotics started. |
| * Whooping Cough (immun-isation usually prevents this illness) |
4 - 10 days |
Coughing. Adults and older older children may pass on the infection to babies. |
Running nose, persistent cough followed by "whoop", vomiting or breathless-ness.. |
For 3 weeks from the first signs if not treated with antibiotics. If the child has had antibiotics, until 5 days of the antibiotic treatment. |
Exclude from service until 21 days from onset of coughing or after 5 days anti-biotics. |