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[QUOTE=Miss Joy;52949]One of the primary reasons to exclude children with active cases even though all the members of the group have been exposed is to protect the future of the children who can get thru the exposure without contracting it. Regardless of what is happening right now at your child care you must consider the child's later life and the very high liklihood that they could get shingles especially after the age of 50.
Shingles is a wicked and painful illness that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. We have to consider the future of each individual child. I have only had one case of chicken pox in the early nineties so I haven't had to go thru the exclusion process with the exception of that one time 15 years ago.
I would do a full exclusion until the blisters were scabbed over for any child that contracted chicken pox. The only way I would consider allowing them back is if every child had the chicken pox and every adult had a history of having the chicken pox. Until all of the kids had the outbreak I wouldn't allow individual kids in. Even if one of 10 didn't get the chicken pox then my policy would be to protect them and their future regarding shingles.
Shingles affects a million people a year and one of three people get it after the age of fifty. Out of the 1 million people who get it 150,000 have post herpatic neuralgia.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pos...ralgia/DS00277 Postherpetic neuralgia (post-her-PET-ic noo-RAL-jah) is a painful condition affecting your nerve fibers and skin. The burning pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia can be severe enough to interfere with sleep and appetite.
Postherpetic neuralgia is a complication of shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus. Most cases of shingles clear up within a few weeks. But if the pain lasts long after the shingles rash and blisters have disappeared, it's called postherpetic neuralgia.
The risk of postherpetic neuralgia increases with age, primarily affecting people over the age of 60. Effective treatment of postherpetic neuralgia is difficult, and the pain can last for months or even years.
It's a super high percentage so I would want to protect even the one of ten who made it thru the exposure without contracting it.
It's NEVER a good idea to allow children around kids who have active cases who do not have any signs or symptoms of it even if they have been exposed. You aren't building their immunity you are introducing a live virus that can wreek havoc on their immune systems as they age.
Chicken pox is NOTHING to mess with. The ramifications of your decisons that affect the very young and the very old could dramatically change their health and the quality of their life as they age.
Shingles is a wicked and painful illness that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. We have to consider the future of each individual child. I have only had one case of chicken pox in the early nineties so I haven't had to go thru the exclusion process with the exception of that one time 15 years ago.
I would do a full exclusion until the blisters were scabbed over for any child that contracted chicken pox. The only way I would consider allowing them back is if every child had the chicken pox and every adult had a history of having the chicken pox. Until all of the kids had the outbreak I wouldn't allow individual kids in. Even if one of 10 didn't get the chicken pox then my policy would be to protect them and their future regarding shingles.
Shingles affects a million people a year and one of three people get it after the age of fifty. Out of the 1 million people who get it 150,000 have post herpatic neuralgia.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/pos...ralgia/DS00277 Postherpetic neuralgia (post-her-PET-ic noo-RAL-jah) is a painful condition affecting your nerve fibers and skin. The burning pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia can be severe enough to interfere with sleep and appetite.
Postherpetic neuralgia is a complication of shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus. Most cases of shingles clear up within a few weeks. But if the pain lasts long after the shingles rash and blisters have disappeared, it's called postherpetic neuralgia.
The risk of postherpetic neuralgia increases with age, primarily affecting people over the age of 60. Effective treatment of postherpetic neuralgia is difficult, and the pain can last for months or even years.
It's a super high percentage so I would want to protect even the one of ten who made it thru the exposure without contracting it.
It's NEVER a good idea to allow children around kids who have active cases who do not have any signs or symptoms of it even if they have been exposed. You aren't building their immunity you are introducing a live virus that can wreek havoc on their immune systems as they age.
Chicken pox is NOTHING to mess with. The ramifications of your decisons that affect the very young and the very old could dramatically change their health and the quality of their life as they age.
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