My 3 year old son caught pink eye from a new dcb who on his first day here had it. I suppose he was in the end stages, I noticed his eyes were a little red and dcm said he was just tired from getting to bed so late the night before. When dcb woke up from rest time his eyes were crusted and I knew immediately he wasn't "just tired." He also vomited upon waking. I called dcm and of course she acted clueless saying, "Oh I wonder what's going on with him? He was fine last night, that's so weird." Yeah...right. So she picks him up early and now my son has pink eye today.

What's the protocol on pink eye and daycare? How long do I need to shut down? Most information I have found estimates between 3 and 10 days before it's no longer contagious and I'm pregnant so I've been stressing and disinfecting EVERYTHING as often as I can. Also, part of me is paranoid the bacteria will stick around the house long after the pink eye has cleared up. Ugh. SO stressed!

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