Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 1.5: Understand how to support children who are unwell
Learning outcome: 1.Know common childhood illnesses
Assessment criteria: 1.4 Identify exclusion periods for common childhood illnesses
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- Exclusion periods are the time that children should stay at home for when they are ill
- Cold – does not need to be excluded
- Influenza (flu) – may return when feeling better
- Diarrhea/vomiting – 48hrs following last case of diarrhea/vomiting
- Ear infections
- Tonsilitis – does not need to be excluded
- Whooping cough – 5 days following antibiotic treatment (or 21 days from when illness began if antibiotics not used)
- Chickenpox – 5 days from rash first being seen
- Measles – 4 days from rash first being seen
- German measles (rubella) – 6 days from rash first being seen
- Mumps – 5 days from beginning of illness
- Scabies -does not need to be excluded
- Hand, foot and mouth – does not need to be excluded
- Impetigo – 48hrs following antibiotic treatment (or when lesions are crsuted/healed)
- Scarlet fever – 24hrs following antibiotic treatment
- Meningitis – as advised by doctor
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