Tag: child infections (articles)

27 May 2020 3 min read

Educators Know The Difference Between Cold, Flu and CO-VID 19

Childcare Articles

As the winter approaches, while working in a service, Educators and children will be prone to colds and flu this season and with the coronavirus epidemic still, around, symptoms can be similar.

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27 Mar 2020 10 min read

Cleaning The Childcare Environment To Stop The Spread Of Infections

Childcare Articles

The aim of environmental cleaning is to minimise the number of germs to reduce the spread of infection, that survive on surfaces in the education and care service.

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5 Apr 2017 4 min read

Measles

Child Health and Safety

Measles is a serious disease that is easily spread through the air. Immunisation is effective in preventing the disease. All children and adults born during or after 1966 should be vaccinated with 2 doses of measles containing vac...

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26 Aug 2015 5 min read

Influenza (Flu)

Child Health and Safety

Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is caused by a highly contagious virus that is spread by fluids produced during coughing and sneezing, or by direct contact with those fluids on surfaces. 

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13 Aug 2015 4 min read

Whooping Cough

Child Health and Safety

Whooping cough is a highly infectious diseases. It takes 7 to 20 days after infection for symptoms of whooping cough to appear. It begins like a cold and then it causes uncontrolled coughing and vomiting for up to several months.

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4 Jul 2015 4 min read

Hand Foot and Mouth Disease

Child Health and Safety

Hand foot and mouth disease is a mild illness common amongst children who attend childcare. The most typical symptoms are blisters in around the hand, foot and mouth.

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26 Dec 2014 4 min read

Chickenpox

Child Health and Safety

Chickenpox is a viral illness. The chickenpox virus is also called varicella virus or varicella zoster virus. It is the same virus that can cause shingles.

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