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  • Pepperth
    Daycare.com Member
    • Aug 2014
    • 682

    Pink Eye Question

    If one of my DCK's just called in with pink eye, what can I do to be on the preventative here. He touched everything yesterday! Do I need to inform the other parents that there is a case of it in daycare?
  • childcaremom
    Advanced Daycare.com Member
    • May 2013
    • 2955

    #2
    I let other parents know that a child was diagnosed with pink eye so please monitor your child for the following symptoms.

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    • Rockgirl
      Daycare.com Member
      • May 2013
      • 2204

      #3
      I would let parents know to watch for it. Most daycares here allow the child to come back after using drops for 24 hours, but I require all symptoms to be completely gone.

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      • DaveA
        Daycare.com Member and Bladesmith
        • Jul 2014
        • 4245

        #4
        Originally posted by childcaremom
        I let other parents know that a child was diagnosed with pink eye so please monitor your child for the following symptoms.
        That's what I would do. I get pink eye at the drop of a hat, so if one of the DCKs get it letting DCPs know serves 2 purposes. They can watch for symptoms in their children and not be surprised when I have to close for a day when I wake up with it.

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        • Pepperth
          Daycare.com Member
          • Aug 2014
          • 682

          #5
          That's what I'm worried about. I've never had pink eye and neither have my kids, but we have a very fun weekend planned. I'm a little nervous that Murphy's Law will come into effect.

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          • Rockgirl
            Daycare.com Member
            • May 2013
            • 2204

            #6
            Originally posted by Pepperth
            That's what I'm worried about. I've never had pink eye and neither have my kids, but we have a very fun weekend planned. I'm a little nervous that Murphy's Law will come into effect.
            It wouldn't hurt to call your doc and explain that your family has been exposed. Ours used to prescribe the drops so we'd have them on hand.

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            • Blackcat31
              • Oct 2010
              • 36124

              #7
              Ugh! Pink eye is horrible!!! It's so contagious and spreads so quickly! Especially with littles that mouth everything and share a lot of "fluid" with their peers and their physical environments.

              The contagious period is 1-12 days BEFORE symptoms appear and while symptoms are present in some cases.

              You can get bacterial pink eye which requires and antibiotic ointment or drops to cure or you can get viral pink eye where it's not treated but like the cold that caused it, just has to go away on it's own.

              I have been lucky to not have it here (yet ) but a few of our elementary schools have a TON of kids out with it right now.

              Here is a technical fact sheet that we are given that helps explain it. I exclude until pus and crust is ALL gone.

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              • Pepperth
                Daycare.com Member
                • Aug 2014
                • 682

                #8
                Originally posted by Blackcat31
                Ugh! Pink eye is horrible!!! It's so contagious and spreads so quickly! Especially with littles that mouth everything and share a lot of "fluid" with their peers and their physical environments.

                The contagious period is 1-12 days BEFORE symptoms appear and while symptoms are present in some cases.

                You can get bacterial pink eye which requires and antibiotic ointment or drops to cure or you can get viral pink eye where it's not treated but like the cold that caused it, just has to go away on it's own.

                I have been lucky to not have it here (yet ) but a few of our elementary schools have a TON of kids out with it right now.

                Here is a technical fact sheet that we are given that helps explain it. I exclude until pus and crust is ALL gone.

                http://www.hennepin.us/~/media/henne...ider.pdf?la=en
                That's a good resource. Thank you!

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                • Second Home
                  Daycare.com Member
                  • Jan 2014
                  • 1567

                  #9
                  I had a dcb come down with it last week . He was here on Wed and they told me Thurs morning ( by text) . I sprayed bleach water on everything that day and did a good cleaning of everything I know he played with .

                  Luckily no one else got it .

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                  • Blackcat31
                    • Oct 2010
                    • 36124

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Second Home
                    I had a dcb come down with it last week . He was here on Wed and they told me Thurs morning ( by text) . I sprayed bleach water on everything that day and did a good cleaning of everything I know he played with .

                    Luckily no one else got it .
                    If this was just last Wednesday, you aren't out of the woods just yet.

                    I had a DCB with an older sibling that got it. He got over it and a week and half later his sister got it. The youngest (my DCB) hasn't got it ....yet..... but we are crossing our fingers that he wont....it says it take 1-12 days after exposure for symptoms to appear.

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                    • Unregistered

                      #11
                      Pink eye isn't a singular disease. It's a presentation of several diseases.

                      Most likely it's an adenovirus. The same virus can cause cold symptoms, it just depends on how it's introduced. One child has a runny nose, sneezes on another child's hand, that child rubs his eyes, and boom. That kid gets pink eye.

                      If it's bacterial, it's probably strep or staph. They're usually viral unless they're really severe, though.

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