Are You Kidding Me!!!!!

[Solandia]

You sign a confidentiality agreement between you and your state licensing agency though. You're not allowed to disclose that info or any for that matter.

I know I wasn't even allowed to disclose the names of some of the kids in my care, much less that they were foster children or the reasons they were with me. Those rules don't across the board apply to licensed daycare situations.





Here's where it gets fuzzy for me......if I'm watching a child who's obviously got some sort of upper respiratory infection, I'm going to require a doctors visit and subsequent diagnosis and treatment to re-admit that kiddo back into care.

On that same note - if I'm changing the diaper of a 1 year old, and they have oozing lesions on their genitals, I am going to require a doctors visit and subsequent diagnosis and treatment to re-admit that kiddo into care.

We require families tell us about the extent of a cold, but parents can legally withhold if their child has something like genital herpes? Why would it be ok to implement scenario number 1, which so many many of us have, but not scenario number 2? Why would the second scenario be protected by confidentiality statutes but not the first?


Do we have NO rights to a child's health information? I don't know how many times I've required documentation from the doctor directly stating a child is no longer contagious with this that or the other.....was I legally not allowed to do that?

IMO, the child has a reasonable right to privacy of their medical information. Your, and the daycare parents, peace of mind doesn't really factor into that. The bottom line is that providers have NO rights to medical information other than what the state requires for enrollement (TB test, immunizations, Lead screening). You do not have a right to a diagnosis, but most parents are not going to object to it because MOST of the time it isn't going to cause the provider to discriminate against their child. It isn't against the law or against licensing to request this information, but the parents have a right to refuse to give it to you. Just as you have the right to not accept the child back into care for whatever reason.

[Unregistered]

mother of child with herpes.

1 week after giving birth to my 3rd child prematurely via c section. we found out she had genital herpes on her body. Shocked and completely confused me and my husband of 9 yrs were tested. His herpes type 1 cold sores positive genital negative. I was the opposite on these tests. I have never in my live had any type of herpes lesion on me. So this was very devistating. I thought docs did c section to prevent this so not knowing I had it and her c section how did she get it.
Here's what I think about all this people are not well education on this people are so scared. But how does my husband of 9 yes not have this disease. Please tell me how parents like me take care of our family when we can't keep a job cause we can't keep daycare. Our infectious disease doc says 80 percent 1 in every 4 people have the disease and don't know it cause it stays dormant no out breaks. Hey like me. Was I born with it? Get it by sex? Look this can't be spread by breathing good lord. Doc says u have to have a cut and them have a open blister and puss get in u r glove. So my thought this is so common maybe all day care should use gloves with every kid cause u never know what any child could have. We don't keep this to ourselves hoping u r children get it. We just know if we disclose it we are to blame when I child gets it. Yet the same child could contract it from a kid with no lesions and never know but we get blame cause we were honest. 2 way street here my opinion do u r research understand the disease before u decide.

[Play Care]

I realize this is an old thread, but I find it horrifying that posters equate herpes (a mainly benign virus that statistically most of you have in your systems already anyway) to HIV/AIDS

I've had kids in my care who had "fever blisters" and "cold sores" etc before. All herpes, people.
I practice universal precautions - gloves, toy sanitizing, and hand washing because you never know.