Health Information for Families

Staying Healthy

In Early Education and Care many children enter the service when their immune systems are still developing. Most children experience up to ten colds per year. They haven’t been exposed to many common germs that cause illnesses before and the way children play and learn means that diseases and illnesses can quickly spread in a variety of ways.

Keiki Early Learning has many strategies to reduce the risk of spreading illnesses and diseases. One of these is following the recommendations from Staying Healthy 5th Edition.

Fact Sheets for Families A - M

Bronchiolitis


Campylobacter-infection


CMV-Cytomegalovirus


Common-Cold


Croup


Diarrhoea-and-vomiting-gastroenteritis


Fungal-Infectious-of-the-skin-or-Nails-ringwork-tinea-athlestes-foot


Glandular-Fever


Haemophilus-Influenzae-type-B


Head-Lice


Hepatitis-B


Human-Parvovirus-B19


Influenza


Measles


Molluscum-Contagiosum


Mumps

Bronchitis


Candidiasis


Cold-Sores


Conjunctivitis


Cryptosporidiosis


Ear-Infections


Giardiasis


HIV


Hand-Foot-and-Mouth-Disease


Hepatitis-A


Hepatitis-C


Impetigo-school-sores


Listeriosis


Meningitis-viral


Mosquito-borne-Diseases


Norovirus

Fact Sheets for Families N - Z

Pertussis-whooping-cough


Rashes


Rotavirus


Salmonellosis


Shigellosis


Staphylococcus-Aureus-staph-Infection


Tuberculosis


Warts


Worms-Threadworm

Pneumococcal-Disease


Roseola


Rubella


Scabies-and-other-mites


Sore-Throat-including-scarlet-fever


Toxoplasmosis


Varicella-chickenpox


Worms-Hydatid-Disease

Additional Information for Families

What-Causes-Infections


Exclusion-Periods-Explained