Do you believe there are any issues regarding health of a child in daycare?
would you send your child to daycare? thanks all answers
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I would say there isn't anything worse then a common cold. Which if they don't get a daycare they'll get at school. I would if I had to work and the provider was responsible for keeping sick kids home.
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Kids will pick up things no matter if they go to care or not. My daughter goes to care and very rarely brings home illness or problems, however her friend has never been to care and is constantly getting things like head lice and colds.
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there will always be issues with health in daycare : your child will get sick (fact of life) but will also be able to build immunity from getting these illnesses that abound at day cares...it is also critically important for you to follow your child's immunisation schedules - this will help fight off the illnesses that kiddies get .. it is also a sad reality that some parents chose NOT to immunise their kiddies, thereby putting them at higher risks of infection and allowing preventable illnesses at the daycare where your child will have contact with it... All this being said, kids will get sick from daycare sooner or later : there's just no way around it...all you can possibly manage is the virulence of the infection by vitamins, proper diet, etc
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I personally hate the day care systems. I wouldn't worry about health issues at daycare. I'm more worried about disciplinary practices at day cares. Some of those people DO NOT know how to handle children. I've seen my nephews going to day care and it is by far one of the worst decisions made for them. They know don't listen to their parents, and have no regard or respect for personal property, which was not a problem for us before they started going to daycare.
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There are "issues regarding health of a child" in any group setting, not just daycare - school, nursery school, gymnastics, swimming lessons, etc. My daughter was very ill the first few months after starting daycare. Being diagnosed as asthmatic didn't help things, and neither has chronic ear infections. But since we have those two things resolved (medication for asthma and tubes in ears) she's been much much better. And daycare did not cause her asthma or her ear infections - they just exacerbated both problems. Children in group care settings (daycare or school) get an average of one cold every three weeks. Research has shown that children who are exposed to viruses such as those rampant in daycare centres early in life, are 30% less likely to get serious illnesses such as leukemia. Once my daughter hits school, she will be much less likely to get sick than her peers who did not attend childcare. This is a fact, because her immune system will be much stronger due to exposure. So you can protect your child early in life from being ill, but you are just prolonging the inevitable - once they start school they will be sick constantly for the first few months or year until their immune system strengthens.
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