Well it’s become a day for working from home … Kira has been in sick bay this morning an needs to go home.
Slap Face (Virus)
erythema infectiosum
(Fifth Disease)Internationally: Worldwide, epidemics of erythema infectiosum tend to occur in the late winter or early spring, with cyclical peaks of incidence occurring every 4-7 years. Approximately 60% of adults are seropositive for PV-B19 by age 20 years. Infection rates vary from 20-50% in schools and households during outbreaks.[1]
Medical Care: Since erythema infectiosum most often is a benign self-limited disease, reassuring the parents often is the only intervention necessary. For patients with arthralgias or pruritus, symptomatic relief can be obtained using oral analgesics and antihistamines or topical antipruritic lotions.[1]
Victorian statutory requirement
Notification and school exclusion are not required.[2]Infectious agent
The causative agent is human parvovirus B19.[2]The incubation period varies from four to twenty days.[2]
Children with erythema infectiosum are most infectious before the onset of the rash and are probably not infectious after the rash appears.[2]
[1] http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic136.htm
[2] Erythema infectiosum (human parvovirus infection or slapped cheek disease)
[3] Slapped cheek infection information sheet
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