H1N1 (Swine Flu) Update: CDC Issues Guidance for Early Childhood Programs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidelines for reducing flu among early childhood centers. Listed below are the basic recommendations provided by the CDC.
Recommended strategies to use now, for flu conditions with severity similar to spring/summer 2009:
- Get vaccinated against the flu.
- Stay home when sick.
- Conduct daily health checks.
- Separate ill children and staff.
- Encourage hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette of both people who are well and those who have any symptoms of flu.
- Perform routine environmental cleaning.
- Encourage early treatment for children and staff at high risk for flu complications.
- Consider selective early childhood program closures.
Recommended strategies to add in the event of increased influenza severity compared to spring/summer 2009:
- Permit high-risk staff to stay home.
- Increase social distances between children.
- Encourage children with ill household members to stay home.
- Extend the time that ill people stay home.
- Early childhood program closures.
To read the full document: CDC Guidance on Helping Child Care and Early Childhood Programs Respond to Influenza during the 2009–2010 Influenza Season:
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