Keep your child at home if:

• your child has a temperature higher than 100 degrees. Even if he or she feels fine, a fever is a sign of a potentially contagious infection.
• other children in the day care center have known contagious infections, like chicken pox, strep throat or conjunctivitis (pink eye).
• your child has just started taking antibiotics. Keep your child home until he or she has taken the medicine for one or two days.
• your child is vomiting or has diarrhea. Other warning signs include inability to take fluids, weakness or lethargy, sunken eyes, a depressed soft spot on top of an infant’s head, crying without tears and dry mouth.